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#nerd met een gezonde fascinatie voor internet, marketing, communicatie, copywriting, oude/nieuwe/sociale media, design, reizen, gadgets, muziek en innovatie.

Dit is een digitaal prikbord cq archief vol random linkjes: design, campagnes, artikelen en andere dingen die ik niet wil vergeten. 

Zo af en toe werk ik aan een top secret project rondom typografie en cover art. 
Uiteraard heel artistiek verantwoord, meer info volgt in de verre toekomst.








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</description><title>#nerd</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @evabrands)</generator><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Jean Shin</title><description>&lt;p&gt;En jawel, weer een nieuwe kunstenaar voor het favorietenlijstje. Jean Shin maakt behoorlijk gave installaties van (zo goed als) waardeloze materialen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="321" src="http://www.jeanshin.com/images/installations/SoundWave-MAD_1.jpg" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sound Wave&lt;/em&gt;, gemaakt van gesmolten grammafoonplaatjes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="321" src="http://www.jeanshin.com/images/installations/ChanceCity_SAAM.jpg" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chance City&lt;/em&gt;, een stad gebouwd van loterijbriefjes. Hoewel ze enkel verliezende tickets gebruikt heeft, zijn ze ooit in totaal toch $32.404,- waard geweest.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="171" src="http://youmeandcharlie.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Screen-shot-2012-01-30-at-12.58-524x179.png" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chemical Balance&lt;/em&gt;, stalagmieten en stalactieten van medicijnpotjes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="321" src="http://www.jeanshin.com/images/installations/textile-1.jpg" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;TEXTile&lt;/em&gt;, een interactieve sculptuur van 22.720 toetsen. De letters vormen een letterlijke transcriptie van het e-mailverkeer tussen de ontwerper en de makers van de installatie.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Meer op &lt;a href="http://www.jeanshin.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jeanshin.com" target="_blank"&gt;www.jeanshin.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/16832545567</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/16832545567</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:48:00 +0100</pubDate><category>jean shin</category><category>art</category></item><item><title>Schrijver Neil Gaiman over copyright, piraterij en de commerciële waarde van internet</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up. They put my stories up. They put my stuff up on the web. I had this belief, which was completely erroneous, that if people put your stuff up on the web and you didn’t tell them to take it down, you would lose your copyright, which actually, is simply not true.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And I also got very grumpy because I felt like they were pirating my stuff, that it was bad. And then I started to notice that two things seemed much more significant. One of which was… places where I was being pirated, particularly Russia where people were translating my stuff into Russian and spreading around into the world, I was selling more and more books. People were discovering me through being pirated. Then they were going out and buying the real books, and when a new book would come out in Russia, it would sell more and more copies. I thought this was fascinating, and I tried a few experiments. Some of them are quite hard, you know, persuading my publisher for example to take one of my books and put it out for free. We took “American Gods,” a book that was still selling and selling very well, and for a month they put it up completely free on their website. You could read it and you could download it. What happened was sales of my books, through independent bookstores, because that’s all we were measuring it through, went up the following month three hundred percent.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I started to realize that actually, you’re not losing books. You’re not losing sales by having stuff out there. When I give a big talk now on these kinds of subjects and people say, “Well, what about the sales that I’m losing through having stuff copied, through having stuff floating out there?” I started asking audiences to just raise their hands for one question. Which is, I’d say, “Okay, do you have a favorite author?” They’d say, “Yes.” and I’d say, “Good. What I want is for everybody who discovered their favorite author by being lent a book, put up your hands.” And then, “Anybody who discovered your favorite author by walking into a bookstore and buying a book raise your hands.” And it’s probably about five, ten percent of the people who actually discovered an author who’s their favorite author, who is the person who they buy everything of. They buy the hardbacks and they treasure the fact that they got this author. Very few of them bought the book. They were lent it. They were given it. They did not pay for it, and that’s how they found their favorite author. And I thought, “You know, that’s really all this is. It’s people lending books. And you can’t look on that as a loss of sale. It’s not a lost sale, nobody who would have bought your book is not buying it because they can find it for free.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What you’re actually doing is advertising. You’re reaching more people, you’re raising awareness. Understanding that gave me a whole new idea of the shape of copyright and of what the web was doing. Because the biggest thing the web is doing is allowing people to hear things. Allowing people to read things. Allowing people to see things that they would never have otherwise seen. And I think, basically, that’s an incredibly good thing.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bron: &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/0Qkyt1wXNlI" target="_blank"&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/16401718444</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/16401718444</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:33:34 +0100</pubDate><category>Neil Gaiman</category><category>piracy</category><category>copyright</category></item><item><title>Zo kan het ook...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://i41.tinypic.com/qs0fht.jpg" title='Antoine Houtsma - Advertentie "Geschiedenis van de reclame in Nederland"' target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img align="middle" alt='Antoine Houtsma - Advertentie "Geschiedenis van de reclame in Nederland)' height="320" src="http://i39.tinypic.com/314cm8n.jpg" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(klik voor een leesbare versie)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bovenstaande afbeelding is een advertentie voor het boek &amp;#8220;Geschiedenis van de reclame in Nederland&amp;#8221;. Reclamemaker Antoine Houtsma schreef een op het eerste gezicht zeer onaantrekkelijke tekst van maar liefst 1287 woorden, en won er een prestigieuze reclameprijs mee. Zo kan het ook&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/16290271787</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/16290271787</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:36:00 +0100</pubDate><category>copywriting</category><category>advertising</category><category>marketing</category></item><item><title>De horror: een elevator pitch</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Wat had ik tijdens mijn opleiding een hekel aan die zogenaamde &lt;em&gt;elevator pitches&lt;/em&gt;. Opdrachten als &amp;#8216;overtuig zakenman X binnen een minuut om drie ton in jouw plan te investeren&amp;#8217; zijn onmogelijk. Als het je lukt is a] zakenman X niet goed wijs of b] jouw naam Rasta Rostelli.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gelukkig kan ik dat standpunt nu eindelijk onderbouwen met &lt;a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/12/no-one-ever-bought-anything-in-an-elevator.html" target="_blank"&gt;dit blogje&lt;/a&gt; van marketinggrootheid Seth Godin:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No one ever bought anything in an elevator&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;em&gt;The purpose of an elevator pitch isn&amp;#8217;t to close the sale. The goal isn&amp;#8217;t even to give a short, accurate, Wikipedia-standard description of you or your project.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;em&gt;And the idea of using vacuous, vague words to craft a bland mission statement is dumb.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;em&gt;No, the purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you&amp;#8217;re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is ov&lt;/em&gt;er.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Lief Inholland, wil je toekomstige studenten alsjeblieft leren hoe ze enthousiasme en passie overbrengen? En hoe ze resultaatgericht te werk gaan? De exacte details van het plan komen later wel ter sprake. Zorg eerst maar eens dat er een &lt;em&gt;later&lt;/em&gt; is.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/16001375931</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/16001375931</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:37:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>It’s up to the audience, not the executive gut, to decide what’s worth watching</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Ontzettend interessant stuk in de New Yorker: &lt;a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/16/120116fa_fact_seabrook" target="_blank"&gt;Streaming dreams - Will Robert Kyncl and YouTube Revolutionize Television?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;#8220;For the past sixty years, TV executives have been making the decisions  about what we watch in our living rooms. Kyncl would like to change  that. Therefore YouTube, the home of grainy cell-phone videos and  skateboarding dogs, is going pro. Kyncl has recruited producers,  publishers, programmers, and performers from traditional media to create  more than a hundred channels, most of which will début in the next six  months—a sort of YouTV. Streaming video, delivered over the Internet, is  about to engage traditional TV in a skirmish in the looming war for  screen time.&amp;#8221;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Het is een behoorlijk lang artikel, maar zeer de moeite waard als je wat hebt met media, entertainment en/of online cultuur. In een kleine zevenduizend woorden lees je over de ontwikkeling van Youtube (in zes jaar van nul naar 800 miljoen unieke gebruikers per maand) en diens invloed in de verschuiving van massa- naar niche-entertainment. Wat dat betreft staat ons blijkbaar nog een hele hoop te wachten: YouTube/Google heeft grootse, grootse plannen voor de toekomst. Kom maar op.&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/15505618590</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/15505618590</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:55:00 +0100</pubDate><category>YouTube</category><category>Google</category><category>Media</category><category>entertainment</category></item><item><title>Expect failure but prepare for success: crowdfunding</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Interessant artikel op techblog The Verge: &lt;a href="http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/20/2644358/kickstarter-success-product-development-revolution" target="_blank"&gt;Kickstarted - How one company is revolutionizing product development&lt;/a&gt;. Het is een mooi uitgebreid verhaal over crowdfunding in het algemeen en Kickstarter in het bijzonder, inclusief inspirerende succesverhalen. Heel gaaf om te zien wat je kunt bereiken met een goed idee, bergen enthousiasme en financiële ondersteuning van een groepje supporters dat er wel wat in ziet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In het artikel komt naar voren wat wel en niet werkt, en wat de succesfactoren van verschillende projecten zijn. Met name het stuk over (re)presentatie is interessant:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tell a passionate story&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;em&gt;Passion is infectious. It attracts attention on Kickstarter just as it does in real life. Successful Kickstarter projects tell a story that connects with the reader at an emotional level. The pitch is personal, not corporate, and honest above all else. A smarmy tone will be vetted and expelled from the community for its impudence. A project built from a PowerPoint foundation will be met with a reflexive Command+w (or Ctrl+w, if you prefer).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;em&gt;The most effective way to tell a story on Kickstarter is with video. In fact, video is the first thing potential backers see when they open a project page. If it doesn’t set the hook, if it doesn’t connect, readers will never consider clicking the &amp;#8220;back this project&amp;#8221; button.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;&lt;em&gt;The language of Kickstarter is video, text is secondary.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#8221; En zo haalden &lt;a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danprovost/glif-iphone-4-tripod-mount-and-stand?ref=live" target="_blank"&gt;deze jongens&lt;/a&gt; met een goed idee én een goed filmpje in een maand tijd ruim $137k binnen, terwijl ze initieel gingen voor &amp;#8216;slechts&amp;#8217; $10,000. Bizar.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/15239233311</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/15239233311</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:21:00 +0100</pubDate><category>crowdfunding</category><category>kickstarter</category><category>crowdsourcing</category></item><item><title>Supertof arty project van Cãoceito + Burdman: I need nothing - a...</title><description>&lt;iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/29399425?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Supertof arty project van Cãoceito + Burdman:&lt;strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://caoceito.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;I need nothing - a nearly useless odyssey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Korte uitleg: liedje ‘doughnut’ van &lt;em&gt;The Parenthetical Girls&lt;/em&gt; kreeg een nieuwe video, waarin je door (customized) bekende albumcovers bladert die de lyrics illustreren.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Zien is beter dan vertellen, dus kijk even op &lt;a href="http://caoceito.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;de website&lt;/a&gt;, klik de video aan en zie waar het om gaat. Als je tijdens het afspelen van de video langzaam naar beneden scrollt dan blader je zelf door de albumhoezen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stiekem toch nog wat uitleg:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Repositories of stories and its enriching emotions, the covers, that  accomodate the existing panoply of musical genres, are the motto for  this exibition. The focus is made on album covers that often conquer our  memory even when music slightly reached our ears. Major graphic  disasters or deified, unduly ignored or zeitgeists, covers provide  listening with a touch and an image, with the act of collection and  share. From cover to cover, going thru all the stories (and histories),  we wrote a new one to the sound of a song that repeats: I need nothing,  I’ve everything I need.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Cool.&lt;em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/14469788909</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/14469788909</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:37:00 +0100</pubDate><category>cover art</category><category>I need nothing</category><category>cãoceito</category><category>art</category><category>music video</category></item><item><title>Het dak van Rotterdam</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Wat supervet dit&amp;#8230; Op &lt;a href="http://www.dakvanrotterdam.nl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dakvanrotterdam.nl" target="_blank"&gt;www.dakvanrotterdam.nl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt; kun je een virtuele tour maken door de Rotterdamse skyline: 360 graden panoramafotografie vanaf de daken van de lokale hoogbouw. Superheldere beelden, heel cool!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://i42.tinypic.com/2nqh0lv.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img align="middle" src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw97jid7Op1qepqdu.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(klik foto voor vergroting)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/14265655277</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/14265655277</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:41:00 +0100</pubDate><category>rotterdam</category><category>skyline</category><category>architecture</category><category>photography</category><category>panorama</category></item><item><title>Mooie advert voor het Vancouver Aquarium</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img align="middle" height="786" src="http://files.coloribus.com/files/adsarchive/part_1140/11405905/file/vancouver-aquarium-kitchen-small-41933.jpg" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Behoorlijk gave print dit, jammer dat de rest van de campagne een beetje saai/same old is. Meer &lt;a href="http://osocio.org/message/if_frogs_go_extinct_youll_notice" target="_blank"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/14209128859</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/14209128859</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:00:09 +0100</pubDate><category>advertising</category><category>marketing</category><category>print</category></item><item><title>The most important page on the web is the page you build yourself</title><description>&lt;p&gt;The internet is an engine of connection. It has been from the start (email, chat, forums, blogs, social media&amp;#8230;).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One reason that so many of the most popular sites online are those that permit people to express and expose their ideas is that those are the pages we care most about. We go back to see how people responded, how the traffic is, what we can do to improve the page.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lifestyle media isn&amp;#8217;t a fad. It&amp;#8217;s what human beings have been doing forever, with a brief, recent interruption for a hundred years of professional media along the way. That interruption is fading away, and lifestyle media is resurging. &lt;em&gt;People publish&lt;/em&gt;. Instead of denigrating user-generated content (what an obscure way to describe human stories), marketers need to understand that this is what we care about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We shouldn&amp;#8217;t be surprised when someone chooses to publish their photos, their words, their art or their opinions. We should be surprised when they don&amp;#8217;t.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/14117069954</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/14117069954</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:29:58 +0100</pubDate><category>Seth Godin</category></item><item><title>Gaafste kerstballen ever.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img align="middle" src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvudbbcAn31qepqdu.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com/post/13874847166/heykyle-pantone-christmas-ornaments-made-by" target="_blank"&gt;thingsorganizedneatly&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://heykyle.tumblr.com/post/12019275784" target="_blank"&gt;heykyle&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Pantone Christmas ornaments made by &lt;a href="http://www.badini.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Studio Badini Createam&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;ed: Now THIS is a brilliant product.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/13876012092</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/13876012092</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:21:10 +0100</pubDate><category>Pantone</category><category>christmas</category></item><item><title>De zoveelste mooie quote rondom Google</title><description>&lt;p&gt;When Google released its search engine in 1998, its search results were significantly better than its competitors’. Many people attribute Google’s success to this breakthrough technology. But there was another key reason:  a stubborn refusal to accept the orthodox view at the time that “stickiness” was crucial to a website’s success. Here’s what happened when they tried to sell their technology to Excite (a leading portal/search engine in the late 90s):&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Google] was too good. If Excite were to host a search engine that instantly gave people information they sought, [Excite&amp;#8217;s CEO] explained, the users would leave the site instantly. Since his ad revenue came from people staying on the site—“stickiness” was the most desired metric in websites at the time—using Google’s technology would be counterproductive. “He told us he wanted Excite’s search engine to be 80 percent as good as the other search engines,” … and we were like, “Wow, these guys don’t know what they’re talking about.”&lt;/em&gt; - Steven Levy&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Famed investor/entrepreneur Reid Hoffman says world-changing startups need to be premised on “accurate contrarian theories.”  In Google’s case, it was true but non-contrarian to think users would prefer a better search engine. What was true and contrarian was to think it made business sense to get users off their site as quickly as possible. The business model to support this contrarian theory wouldn’t emerge until years later, and by then Google would already have become the world’s most popular search engine.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/13555408281</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/13555408281</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:09:29 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Typisch.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img align="middle" height="700" src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv9oaoIxF71qzs9u3o1_500.jpg" width="487"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://wirrow.tumblr.com/post/13344548330" target="_blank"&gt;wirrow&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;go back to bed america, shh.. everything’s cool here.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/13348524325</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/13348524325</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:55:05 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Gratis advies van opa Seth</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blog: Moving beyond impressions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Internet advertising is so cheap (particularly Facebook and run of site network buys) that just about anyone can afford a million impressions, and a billion isn’t out of reach. Pretty soon it turns into noise. An infinite number of impressions is dangerously close to no impressions at all.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The conversation media reps have with advertisers quickly devolves into, &amp;#8220;how cheap can I buy a million impressions?&amp;#8221; What a waste. That number, out of context, is nothing but a crutch, a poor stand in for the insightful analysis that media buyers ought to be using.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Far better to focus on two things, both leading to the real goal:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- more --&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Perception&lt;/strong&gt;. Does the ad you’re running increase the value of your name? Are you perceived as an annoyance, an interruptor&amp;#8212;or are you a valued sponsor, a trusted friend, someone who is making things better?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interaction&lt;/strong&gt;. Not merely a click that leads to a sale. I’m talking about any sort of interaction with you or your organization, whether it’s an online chat, a phone call or navigating your site. Too often, online marketers are focused on pennies per click instead of long-term value per engagement.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Both perception and interaction lead to permission. Permission to deliver anticipated, personal and relevant messages over time. Permission to tell a story. Permission to earn attention on an ongoing basis. Impressions don’t automatically get you permission. In fact, they might cost it.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/13077838656</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/13077838656</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:16:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>The entrepreneurial generation</title><description>&lt;p&gt;In de New York Times van gisteren een mooi artikel over jeugdcultuur: &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/opinion/sunday/the-entrepreneurial-generation.html?_r=1&amp;amp;pagewanted=all?src=tp"&gt;the entrepreneurial generation&lt;/a&gt;. Ik lees vooral veel negatiefs over de jeugd van vandaag, dus ik kan de  insteek van dit artikel wel waarderen. Ze noemen met name de houding en het  ondernemerschap van veel jongeren en jonge volwassenen:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The thing that strikes me most about them is how nice they are: polite, pleasant, moderate, earnest, friendly. Rock ’n’ rollers once were snarling rebels or chest-beating egomaniacs. Now the presentation is low-key, self-deprecating, post-ironic, eco-friendly.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[&amp;#8230;]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Today’s ideal social form is not the commune or the movement or even the  individual creator as such; it’s the small business. Every artistic or  moral aspiration — music, food, good works, what have you — is expressed  in those terms. Call it Generation Sell. Bands are still bands, but now they’re little businesses, as well:  self-produced, self-published, self-managed. When I hear from young  people who want to get off the careerist treadmill and do something  meaningful, they talk, most often, about opening a restaurant.  Nonprofits are still hip, but students don’t dream about joining one,  they dream about starting one. In any case, what’s really hip is social  entrepreneurship — companies that try to make money responsibly, then  give it all away.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Erg interessant artikel, aanrader als je iets met jeugd doet.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/12787202202</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/12787202202</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:37:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Hoe je anderen je berichten laat verspreiden</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Handig artikel over het delen van informatie: &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/media-lab/social-media/139716/5-reasons-people-share-news-how-you-can-get-them-to-share-yours/"&gt;5 reasons people share news &amp;amp; how you can get them to share yours&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The common thread is that content sharing  is all about relationships. Sharing is driven by our desire to shape or  maintain relationships with other people. As Brett summarized it in his  presentation notes, “getting shared is about providing content that  serves consumers’ relationships with one another.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Er worden motivaties om informatie te delen en een aantal verschillende soorten delers genoemd, om vervolgens af te sluiten met tips om anderen jouw berichten te laten verspreiden. Ze maken een interessante verdeling, best handig om te onthouden. Het is niets revolutionairs, maar wel een prima basis - aanrader.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/12760815986</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/12760815986</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:20:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Portret van een schrijver</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Ik vermoed dat er weinig beroepsgroepen zo geromantiseerd worden als de creatieve sector. Kunstenaar, schrijver, danser&amp;#8230; Volgens mij is de realiteit over het algemeen wat minder aantrekkelijk dan het beeld dat vaak geschetst wordt. Mocht je daar over twijfelen, lees dan vooral &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.vn.nl/boeken/schrijver/interview-peter-buwalda-%e2%80%98ik-ben-fed-up-met-zielepoten-in-fictie%e2%80%99/"&gt;dit interview&lt;/a&gt; met Peter Buwalda, de schrijver van &lt;em&gt;Bonita Avenue&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;#8220;Ik  wist: als je het doet, moet het ook goed zijn. Groot en beter dan   gemiddeld. Zo goed als de boeken waarvoor ik mijn hand in het vuur   steek. En dan moet je, heb ik gemerkt, heel diep gaan en nooit, nooit   opgeven. Om tien uur ‘s avonds als ik vastzat, als het bagger was wat ik   had geschreven, kun je twee dingen doen: voor Pauw &amp;amp; Witteman gaan   zitten of een schrift pakken en bedenken wat er niet deugt. En pas  gaan  slapen als het lek boven is. Dat heb ik heel vaak gedaan. Maar als  ik nu  denk aan al die nachten dat ik eindelijk in bed lag en bleef  malen, en  weer opstond, om van drie tot zeven naar het boek te staren,  een woord  te veranderen, naar bed te gaan op het moment dat gewone  mensen weer  opstonden…’ &amp;#8220;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;De een kijkt soaps, een ander leest roddelbladen en ook ik heb zo m&amp;#8217;n &lt;em&gt;guilty little pleasures&lt;/em&gt; - ik ben gek op dit soort melodrama. De poëtische romantiek en melancholie van een gepijnigde creatieveling, een gekrenkte ziel die zich onbegrepen voelt, een geweldige prestatie neerzetten maar er niet van kunnen genieten. Ik heb het boek niet gelezen, had er zelfs nog niets over gehoord, maar geloof dat ik toch eens een poging ga wagen. Al is het maar om Buwalda een heads up te geven.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(En eigenlijk moet je voor de gein daarna even &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.ftm.nl/original/uitgevers-die-delen-hebben-de-toekomst.aspx"&gt;dit stuk&lt;/a&gt; lezen, over de zakelijke kant van boeken schrijven. Ik hoop maar dat Buwalda voor zijn bestseller een betere deal heeft kunnen maken.)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/12760889463</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/12760889463</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:22:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Bijdehand artwork</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/8168207507/1/tumblr_lp1c71Akaz1qemliu" align="middle" height="375" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Volgende maand ben ik jarig, ik geloof dat ik mezelf bovenstaande cadeau geef. Love it!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/12751449754</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/12751449754</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:13:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Social media PR disasters</title><description>&lt;p&gt;De nachtmerrie van iedere marketing-/communicatiemedewerker: dramatische PR via sociale media. Eenmaal online geplaatst kun je niets meer terugnemen, en als je pech hebt verspreid je bericht zich als een malle.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Op Mashable vind je een &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://mashable.com/2011/08/24/pr-disaster-recovery/#14221Yahoo-in-China-2007"&gt;artikeltje&lt;/a&gt; met tenenkrommende voorbeelden:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://7.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/cole.jpg" align="middle" height="313" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/12759405975</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/12759405975</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:53:00 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Dom of lui?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Vandaag geen marketinggerelateerd post op Seth Godin&amp;#8217;s &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;. Dit keer een stukje over&amp;#8230; karakter, work ethics, zelfvertrouwen? Noem het wat je wil, maar hij heeft wel een punt. Ik wil hier zelf ook nog wel eens intrappen, maar steeds opnieuw blijkt dat de grootste uitdagingen best wel meevallen als je er gewoon aan begint.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stupid and lazy&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Is it that you can&amp;#8217;t do it or perhaps you don&amp;#8217;t want to do the work?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[&amp;#8230;] &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Isn&amp;#8217;t it amazing that we&amp;#8217;d rather call ourselves stupid than lazy? At least laziness is easy to fix.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;People say that they are not gifted/talented/smart enough to play the trumpet/learn to code/write a book. That&amp;#8217;s crazy. Sure, it may be that they don&amp;#8217;t possess world-class talent, the sort of stuff that is one in a million. But too stupid to do something that millions and millions of people can do?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I&amp;#8217;m not buying it. Call it as it is and live with it (or not). I&amp;#8217;m just not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; willing to believe we&amp;#8217;re as stupid as we pretend to be.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;De volledige blogpost: &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/10/stupid-and-lazy.html"&gt;Stupid and lazy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dat gequote hebbende, duik ik nu weer in de bitterzoete tragedie die WordPress heet. Want hoewel ik geen expert ben in het maken van websites, heb ik een tijd terug toch besloten een en ander in elkaar te zetten voor &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/2117114"&gt;Daysign&lt;/a&gt;. Na maanden van codeknutselen, googelen, schelden op foutmeldingen en nog meer googelen begint het nu langzaamaan ergens op te lijken&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/11691161867</link><guid>http://evabrands.tumblr.com/post/11691161867</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:11:00 +0200</pubDate><category>daysign</category><category>seth godin</category></item></channel></rss>
