I’m in Prague at the moment. That is one place I haven’t spoken before. I’m here to speak at the Domainfest conference. They asked me to keynote and talk about the evolving search industry. Domainers are people who buy domains, park them and then try to sell them for a huge amount of money. And from what I’m hearing, there is a lot of money spent in the domains.

The conference itself is organized remarkably well. We are in one of the most expensive hotels in Prague. And they have put me in a very impressive suite:

It is going to be interesting to see how they will react to my presentation tomorrow (Wednesday). They are to say the least not very keen on Google. And in my presentation there is a lot of Google… We’ll see. I will keep you posted!

I have some news to share with you. Starting this week you will see a new job function appear on my Linkedin profile, my e-mail footers, my presentations and my other social media outings: that of the Social Marketing Ambassador for the DDMA, the Dutch Dialogue Marketing Association. Its a function which I will be doing two days a week in the coming period.

As the Social Marketing Ambassador I will be trying to close the gap which exists between the early adopters in the industry and those looking to ‘do something’ with social marketing. I see there still is a lot of misunderstanding about the topic and the DDMA is giving me opportunity to inform people about this way of working, from a independent place.

Why me?

So why me? This function actually is made for me I think. I have always been independent and can stay independent as an ‘ambassador’. On top of that I have always been somebody who builds bridges and connects people. In this role I can do that and collect and spread the knowledge which is present with all the experts in the field. Continue Reading »

You might have noticed that in the last couple of months I haven’t been updating this blog very much. That is caused by the fact I’m writing a lot of content for Searchcowboys. The way this blog was set up asked for a lot of in depth content about topics I also write about on Searchcowboys, so that would make duplicate content (and we don’t want that ).

That’s why I’ve decided to change the course of this blog. I will be posting more ‘personal’ stuff here. With that I mean things I’m working on, events I’m speaking on or opinions I have regarding topics which are related to the web with a special focus on search and social media.

First in the next period I will start by telling you what I’ve been up to the last couple of months and what I’m planning on doing. That way I’m hoping to give you some insights in who I am and what I do.

Talk to you later!?