Rolling Talks

Rolling Talks Social Media Workshop

That's it: what kept me real busy these last 2 weeks is over. I've been lucky enough to organize my first Social Media Workshop for the consultants of The House of Marketing, the Belgian highly reputed marketing expert consultants' company. Many thanks to Véronique Vergeynst who made this possible and who helped a lot with the organisation phase. During the 3 hour workshop, I presented two parts: one over Social Media landscape from a user point of view, the other was about the impacts for marketers. I also invited 6 great professionals to share their experience with social media.
Thank you again to all my passionate speakers, Julie from Skynet, Diane from Dell, Nathalie from Electrabel, Pierre from Virtual Words Translations, Simon from Attentio, and Jacques, stuck in Milan, but will be for next time ;) ( Have a look at the agenda here ).

If you're interested to have this workshop - or a similar one- home let me know.

Want to know how you can monitor the blogosphere, measure the buzz?

Attentio, the European market intelligence company, will be doing a presentation on why and how the buzz can&should be monitored within Social Media. If you're working in a advertising/interactive or PR agency, this is an 1hour event you'll be happy to join. Leave me a comment or drop me a mail, I'll send you the invitation for October,10th. See you there ;)

On Circle again

Flipping through one of my favorite books, Naked Conversations, again:

" It began with conversations. Then we got into broadcast media. Now we are going back to conversations." It's a full circle" - Terry Catchpole, the Catchpole Corporation

Except that now conversations are global...

About circle and connections

What do I do now when I want to take a 15min break? I go to Facebook you dummy! But I also remember I have a nice blog to update so, here's my little 5 min to my dear Rolling Talks (Yep, I started with Facebook).
While doing data research -I'll tell you on what but one post at a time please- I found this - well I don't remember how we call that, anyone? - and it makes me think of the Microsoft Circle of Media. I don't know their reason to choose that name but I like the idea they put a bit of everything you'll read below inside. 
I don't remember either where I stole it... Nothing to do with getting older though, just a stupid cold, thanks for caring.

Connections we make
Influences we earn
Relationships we build
Conversations we conduct
Leveraging newfound knowledge, we
Engage in new projects, collaborations...friendships. And then, we make new connections..

Monitoring: hoe pak je het aan?

Here's come the nl version of my monitoring article for dummies :-)Yep, I'm busy...

Monitoring mode d'emploi

A very begginer article on monitoring I wrote for Inside Internet last June. Published in this month edition. Here the French pdf version . Disclaimer: I did not choose the illustration ;)

Big Free Hug day

Has started today. Till tomorrow. To commemorate Sept, 11. Everywhere. I don't know if it originates from Facebook but I saw it there this morning. I love it (the original marketing idea, the concept, the craze) . Lets spread love :-) My favorite stays:

Where in the world are social networks?

Source: Social Media Group

Pregnant with a new world

Yesterday I turned 34. It was my first celebration since I registered on Facebook and I was pretty excited to discover what it will be like to receive virtual gifts. Let's make this clear though: virtual gifts are ok for virtual friends! A bon entendeur :-) So: I was dedicated a song, received more chocolate and cakes than I could possibly virtually eat, balloons, a magic 8 ball (??!? 8 is my favorite number so ok I keep it), a garden dwarf (hopefully virtual) and lots of lovely e-mails and e-cards (comme quoi..).

A few months before I told a friend I felt pregnant with a new world. A few weeks after I resigned from my Antidot job to jump into social media. I'm having so much fun I hardly believe I'm working. I've been meeting so many great people in such a short time, life's probably going in a fastforward tempo -and that explains why I'm ageing so quickly!. Meanwhile I'm juggling all day to get things done - and my blog is suffering while I do the talking :-)

But I feel blessed.