Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

Where does Henk-Frits Verkerk get his kicks? August 12, 2009 No Comments

Hello, who are you?
My name is Henk-Frits Verkerk and I work for Sports Alliance Ltd. We help footballclubs to get to know and interact with their supporters.
So what’s keeping you busy lately?
For Vitesse Arnhem we have helped to create a community website which will allow supporters to get involved with the club in different [...]

Research: Working Open Source (presentation) July 2, 2009 No Comments

During the last months, one of the writers of Kicks for Free has done extensive research to the organizational preconditions for successfully working with social media and working open source. This research first describes different specific organizational preconditions, and might thus also be interesting for other organizations. After that, the analysis zooms in to the [...]

Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? June 30, 2009 No Comments

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The Coming Change in Social Media Business Applications June 25, 2009 2 Comments

This is a very interesting white paper from .biz and Social Media Today, written by Josh Gordon. The paper states that social media are mostly used as general communication tool for organisations. Gordon expects this to change in the near future, when companies discover the value as a helpful resource for involving consumers and interacting [...]

Social Media: Unlocking the awesome potential of behavioral disorders June 18, 2009 No Comments

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Tearing down the walls of social media June 11, 2009 1 Comment

Take a look at this article from Wired. It’s basically about how different social networks have to get entwined with each other, so that content from users doesn’t have to be duplicated all the time. Instead of different platforms, the social web will have to become a fully integrated platform as a whole: “For the [...]

Interviewing Jeremiah Owyang June 3, 2009 No Comments

One of the writers of the Socialmediablog.nl had the honour of interviewing Jeremiah Owyang (web strategist at Forrester) during the Corporate Social Networking Conference, May 14th this year.
A couple of the question that were asked include:
• What do you think of corporate blogging and big companies making use of social media?
• [...]

In a world in which information is like air, what happens to culture? May 28, 2009 No Comments

A while ago, we wrote a post on the Us Now film that was to be expected. Back then, we said: “New technologies and a closely related culture of collaboration present radical new models of social organisation. The Us Now project brings together leading practitioners and thinkers in this field and asks them to determine [...]

Where does Niels Aalberts get his kicks? May 19, 2009 No Comments

Hello, who are you?
I’m Niels Aalberts, blogging and twittering as Eerste Hulp bij Plaatopnamen (EHPO), head of programme of Music Management at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU), and manager of Charlie Dée and Kyteman.
So what’s keeping you busy lately?
Well, I’ve kind of told that already: Kyteman is going really well en therefore takes [...]

Merchsupply: connecting creativity May 1, 2009 2 Comments

Merchsupply is a company that creates different kinds of merchandise (wouldn’t you’ve guessed it?), mostly for the music industry. Their new site has just gone up, and they’ve created some digital services we think are great. And so, we thought we’d share them with you.

First off, they have a special service for bringing designers and [...]