We konden erop wachten: de eerste rechtszaak vanwege uitlatingen die iemand op Twitter heeft gedaan. Amanda Bonnen (Twitter-account inmiddels opgeheven) uit Chicago wordt aangeklaagd door Horizon Group Management waarvan ze een appartement huurt. Horizon eist 50.000 dollar van Amanda voor een Tweet die ze op 12 mei 2009 verstuurde. In de Tweet schrijft ze: “Wie zegt dat slapen in [...]

As a communication specialist I love the influence social media can have in creating a buzz. A good example of this is the latest TV commercial of Belgacom TV. In this commercial you see a man coming out of the shower and looking for his bath robe. In the search for his bath robe he [...]

A while ago I was a bit annoyed by brands that started to follow me on Twitter. I guess they noticed my name in someone else’s list and hit the follow button”that’s another one on the list.” On my personal blog I wrote a post about these brands and asked them to address me personally [...]

Here at LVT we try to be pragmatic and practical about things, also about social media. How can our customers benefit from it? Sometimes it’s a bit annoying to see yet another funky yet fuzzy 2.0 presentation, that doesn’t say much. Or doesn’t answer the question: “How will this have an effect on my business?”
Fortunatly there [...]

Pol Deltour is chairman of the Journalist’s Union in Flanders. Every month the organization publishes a magazine called ” the Journalist.” It offers great insights on the curious specie we deal with every day: journalists. In this month’s issue Deltour has written in which he says publishing houses didn’t figure out in time how they [...]

Last Saturday there was an item (also see Marketingfacts.nl) on Dutch news broadcast NOS Journaal how Twitter was the first medium to break the news on the Schiphol Amsterdam Airport crash of a Turkish Airlines flight TK1951 last week. BNR Nieuwsradio journalist Lara Rense was one of the first to send out a Tweet on listeners [...]

Yes, it is official now, we are in an economic crisis. I don’t know about you, but so far almost all of my business contacts I have talked to look almost happy. I mean, there isn’t a real atmosphere of desparation. On the contrary, most people I have talked to admit that we are seeing [...]

Tonight is the night: elections! News addicts stay up all night to see the first results, but honestly I’ve had it with the media build-up until now. There’s nothing new being told so I think I’ll go to sleep like I usually do and by the time I get up the first results probably (hopefully) [...]