Making my debut on tv and in a Dutch newspaper

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Making my debut on tv and in a Dutch newspaper

Category:Interview,News,Social Marketing

Last week was a week I’m not likely to forget that easily. It was special because I was very busy with a training session and there was an afternoon about Social Marketing for non-profit organisations which I organized (and spoke at) for the DDMA. But there was something else last week which was fun: I made my debut in both a national newspaper (the Algemeen Dagblad) and on National television!

It started on Tuesday when a reporter from the AD called me to ask about a website which had what they said was a revolutionary idea in Holland. When you tweeted from the website you would get a 5 euro discount voucher. Now this is nothing new in other countries, but the Netherlands has to get used to this.

The question was how new this really was and whether or not this was something which people would actually like. After all, you are sending a commercial out to your friends. The article appeared in the newspaper on Wednesday:

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That same day I got a call from Editie NL, a Dutch show who wanted to know more about this. After a talk they asked me if I would be willing to appear on camera. Off course I did :).  A cameraman and reporter came by my house on Friday to record several things. This was broadcasted on Friday evening.

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Getting interviewed by a Czech newspaper

Category:Interview,Opinion,State of Search

Last week I got a message, if I was willing to talk to a reporter from the Czech newspaper the Prague Post. Eh Prague…? Czech..? That is not really my area, I live in the Netherlands. I did speak in Prague a few months ago, maybe that is why?

It turned out to be a short interview about the ‘dispute’ which is going in Czech between the Czech leading search engine, Seznam, and Google. You have to know that Czech is one of the few countries world wide where Google is NOT the dominant force. In Czech Seznam is the biggest. An Internet search company, Toplist, however gave out some numbers indicating that Google had surpassed Seznam. Seznam disagreed.

The newspaper wanted to talk to me about the dispute but also about local search engines in general. I do a lot of writing about European search, both on State of Search as on Searchengineland. Therefore they came to me. That was fun! I was interviewed next to friend and organizer of the SES Conferences Mike Grehan.

See an extract of the article below. The entire article you can read here. I wrote a bigger article on the matter on State of Search to describe what is going on in Czech.


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A new year a new design

Category:Weblog

Happy New Year! Can I still say that? It’s January 10th, is it too late? Well I don’t care, I’ll say it again: happy new year! I hope 2011 will bring you everything you hoped for!

A new year also always means a fresh start and as many others I had the same urge to start with something fresh. So I decided to update my personal website, this one: www.basvandenbeld.com. The old site was very much a blog but you all know that I do most of my blogging on State of Search. I also do some blogging here, but that is more about what I do than about what is going on in the world of search and social. Though I will continue to blog here now and again, the focus of this site must be to let you know what I do.

So, a fresh year, a new design. Very fresh isn’t it? Compared to the old site there are many changes. The focus as said lies more on what I do and less on the blog. This means that from the homepage you can more easily see what I do and navigate there. And it looks just a bit more professional ;).

I will update my Dutch site soon too but will first make this one more perfect. And there will also be a redesign of State of Search soon! On the blog you will be able to keep following all the things I do and have an opinion on which needs to be expressed. Hope to see you back here often!

Oh, I’m off course curious about what you think of the new design and don’t fortget: spread the word!


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