Yes, you read it correctly. For the last few years I’ve been loathing my Blackberry Bold. It’s clunky, slow loading, the apps don’t do what I want them to do (heck, they won’t even update without requiring a full reboot which takes at least 15min), installing apps is […]

During my opening at Social Connections in Amsterdam on November 30th a few weeks back I tried to make a link between how the Dutch culture of ‘Consensus decision making’ that was formed by hundreds of years of fighting together against the rising water levels and social business […]

Last week, while talking to a friend about how more and more books are becoming available online he mentioned reCaptcha. Now I didn’t know this one so when he explained that it uses the Captcha’s (those ‘are you human?’ tests you get when you comment on a website) […]

Got a Memolane reminder of tweets from a year back this morning and noticed this one: I can’t believe it’s a year already! And more importantly I can’t believe how important it has become since then. I use my iPad more then any other device, and take it […]

Just booked my tickets to go to Social Connections III in Dublin on June 22nd. Really looking forward to it as I was not able to attend the previous Social Connections events held in Cardiff and London. One of the major things I’m looking forward to is being […]

After being on Blogspot for the last few years and running into some issues it was time to finally move it over to WordPress and link it to my own domain in the meantime as well. I will leave my old blog intact to ensure links to it […]

Ok, this one just rubbed me the wrong way. Yesterday I followed a heated twitter discussion between @MatNewman and @APACloud (Andy Pattinson – ProQuest) on Lotus Notes vs Google Mail. I’m always interested to learn what makes/breaks the products I work with so I followed the twitter exchange […]

I recently started writing for the IBM Insights blog http://ibm.com/blogs/socialbusiness. As part of a team of Redbook Residency bloggers. The aim is to write about anything having to do with Social Business or Social Media. To keep track and a personal log of it all I will repost […]

I AM DUTCH… So, there you have it. An obvious point, I know, but I need to say it. And why do I need to say it? Well because it means my first language isn’t English and that frustrates the heck out of me. Yes, I write in […]

It was just announced that the popular social photo network Instagram was bought by Facebook… Wow! With that Facebook is doing yet another major buy in social Media land. I can’t say I’m happy with that. Yes I Facebook and yes I like it but what I like […]