social web Archive

  • The biggest misconceptions about Social Media

    The biggest misconceptions about Social Media

    Plain and simple: #1:  It’s something online #2: It’s new

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  • Collecting colourful stickers, online

    Collecting colourful stickers, online

    At school you learned to write of course just making words but, at least here in Holland, also how to write neatly. Just writing sentences in the neatest, most beautiful way you could in a notebook. If you would do that really well, the teacher would give you a colourful sticker in your notebook to [...]

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  • I like this

    I like this

    I've decided to experiment with adding the new facebook 'like' button to my articles and a like box to my home page. Here is how it works!

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  • ‘Lifestreaming’: Research on Social Media takes off

    ‘Lifestreaming’: Research on Social Media takes off

    There is a new initiative by Harris Interactive where they’re asking you to connect your ‘social’ profiles to an engine that will analyze your actions in Facebook and/or Twitter. Is this the future of research?

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  • From Meetup to Commercial Dating?

    From Meetup to Commercial Dating?

    The internet meeting is starting to break through , maybe as early as this year. This development is not only fun and entertaining; it is also a good way to make contact with consumers, customers and business partners.

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  • Twitter event: Twittershizzle

    Twitter event: Twittershizzle

    You get together with long-time online friends, strangers and everyone in between, while others are still trying to grasp what this is really about. Enter Twittershizzle; an event by Tweeps, for other tweeps, with music, artists and fun and laughter it's both the average get-together as well as networking, listening and performances all in one.

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  • Research using the Social Web

    Research using the Social Web

    Instead of traditional ways of doing online research, we might want to look for something new. Using "social media", we can use the online conversation stream to find what we're looking for.

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  • How do you treat your following?

    How do you treat your following?

    The question do you deserve your following might sound a bit odd. After all, if it is a followerbase like on twitter that you have, people have the option to unfollow you once they feel mistreated. Nevertheless it is a good thing to stop and think about how you treat the people that follow you online.

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