12/2/09

Less is more: 'start smoking campaign'


Nice campaign for selling suits.

11/25/09

Eindhoven will not be 'Designstad' of 2012

Helsinky won the battle versus Eindhoven to
become 'Designstad' (DesignCapital) of the world
in 2012.
What do you think of this? Visit: DesignStad.nl

11/24/09

New Marketing Landscape: Ikea on Facebook

So Ikea had this great idea of promoting a new shop in Malmö. They used a technology on Facebook which all the users were already familiar to. They gave away free stuff and the community on Facebook spread the word.

Typically a Social Media Marketing Campaign. I love it!

11/23/09

Looking back at Community Building

So this webblog started as an assignment for the Community Building module I study at my school. In this blogpost I will look back at this course... I'll have a look at the assignment and of course: myself.

Click on "Tell me more" to find out more...
Note: This may be boring information for some of you :)

11/17/09

Review: ReTweets on Twitter.

So the new feature for retweeting is almost live for everyone. I would like to share my opinion about this topic.

First of all I feel it's annoying you can't edit the message before retweeting. I know it's really just meant for people to "forward" the original message, but there is still no easy way of "respond" to tweets. If you want to respond to a tweet which is not the most recent tweet of this person. You can't just say you liked his tweet. Or you'd have to copy-paste his tweet (what will mean you have less characters to type).
I geuss a sollution to this would be a "retweet" for reactions (which will be visible below the original message). And a "forwardtweet" for forwarding messages just like the retweeting is done right now.

My second vision:
You will see unknown people (who you are not following) in your timeline, when a person (who you are following) retweeted his message. I feel this is a good way of expanding your follow-list. It's sort of a "recommendation" functionality: Someone who you are following thinks the tweet is interesting for you and tells you. Maybe you can follow this person too.


*click to enlarge*
Conclusion:
I feel the retweeting function is good, but is actually a forward-tweet function instead of a retweet function.

11/10/09

New look for ReTweets on Twitter.

Twitter put me in this beta group once again.. So I'm going to give you guys an inside-look on how the "ReTweeting" will be going on in the near future.

Actually, everything is explained in this picture below:


*click to enlarge*

I'll keep you updated if there is any more news!

Twitter #in: Linkedin and Twitter combined

Linkedin has got a new function called Twitter #in.
This function let's you add your tweets to your Linkedin updates, you only have to add #li or #in to your tweets.
Offcourse you'll have to tell Linkedin what your Twitter username is. You can do this on your Linkedin profile page...



Twitter #in, soon available on your Linkedin.

11/2/09

Halo Waypoint will be available on your Xbox soon.

For all those Halo-fans Xbox360 will come with Halo Waypoint this week!

To know what this is all about, Click on "Tell me more!" 

10/26/09

Xbox LIVE Update - Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm, Zune, Inside Xbox News & More


As I promised, I will keep you guys updated about this new Xbox LIVE Update coming this autumn.
With this update you should be able to use Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm and Zune on your Xbox360. Also their should come an "Inside Xbox News & More" section.
I am currently beta-testing this update.

Click on "Tell me more!" to read more about my experience...

10/25/09

Xbox LIVE Update Preview



I got selected to become a Xbox LIVE Update Preview- beta tester!
This will mean that over the next few weeks I will be given the opportunity to experience all the great new features which will be available soon on Xbox, but I get to see them before the rest of the world.

OK, OK, I will keep you guys updated:

10/22/09

I updated my LinkedIn... Finally

Today I finally updated my LinkedIn profile. I created my account a while ago, but didn't really used LinkedIn.
Sinced I updated my profile page today, I can finally add some connections and won't have to be scared that they'll see an empty page.

If you would like to find my on LinkedIn, my username is KCoppens:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kcoppens

10/21/09

Another sneak-preview...

Remembered the design-preview I showed you 2 weeks ago...
To see some more, visit my Twitter page: http://twitter.com/KoenCoppens

10/20/09

Vimeo has got itself a new member

Since I'm getting more and more interested in Communities on the web. I was looking for a new video-hosting community.
Why? Well, YouTube removed the audio file of one of my video's because I used a song where I didn't pay for (naughty me).
Since that video wasn't commercial or what so ever I made my decision to find a new host.
Vimeo gives me good-quality video and is known to contain more "serious" video then YouTube.

My first video on Vimeo is a school assignment I made 2 years age. It's Dutch, but I hope you'll get the point anyhow:


Jongeren in Limburg - Criminialiteit from Koen Coppens on Vimeo.

You can find me on Vimeo with my username "KoenCoppens"

10/19/09

Facebook has got itself a new member

Ok, so since XBox is comming with their new update the autumn. And I'm getting more and more excited about communities. The next step I should take is creating a Facebook account.
So I did:

http://www.facebook.com/KoenCoppens.nl

If you also would like to create a Facebook account. Don't forget to go to http://www.facebook.com/username/ were you can register your own "short-url". Else you will have to direct your friends to a url which contains allot of numbers... and that just isn't handy.
But be quick, Facebook is gaining popularity very very fast. I couldn't claim these profiles because they were all taken:
  • KoenCoppens
  • KCoppens
  • Koen
  • Coppens
  • And many more I tried
So I picked "KoenCoppens.nl".

But be aware... once you picked a username for this url... you can't change it anymore.
Good luck!

10/17/09

Twitter and Facebook on XBox

This autumn XBox will come with an update where you can use Twitter and Facebook on your XBox!



Today I signed myself up for beta-testing of this update. Let's hope I get selected and I can give you all a sneak-preview about this new Update of Xbox.
You can also sign up yourself for beta-testing new Xbox Updates by going to this link: https://connect.microsoft.com/XboxLIVEUpdate/

10/9/09

Working on a new lay-out for my website.

So my website really really really (I mean really) needs to be updated. I haven't done this in years.
So, since I'm working with Communities right now and Communities are the future ( <-- Trust me on this one).
I was thinking of making some sort of "splash-page" were I link to my Community sites...

Right now my community sites are: YouTube, Blogger, Twitter, Delicious, LinkedIn and Hyves. Probably I won't link to Hyves on my website, just because I don't feel that Hyves is "professional" enough for me.

I will give you a sneak-preview in my Design concept:

Feel fry to comment on this preview below!

10/6/09

Headache? Drink some more coffee!


News: If you have a headache in the morning, it may be because your body is addicted to caffeine and wants more of it. So... Drink some coffee! Cheers!

10/2/09

Delicious in plain english

So... what is Delicious actually? I watched this great video on YouTube where Delicious is explained in a short, easy and fun way:



So actually on Delicious uses 5 simple steps:
  1. Create a Delicious account
  2. Go on the web
  3. Add interesting sites to your Delicious account (and add tags)
  4. Search your favourite website by tags
  5. Be social on Delicious:
  • look for other people that bookmarked the same page
  • search for tags other people added to "your" interesting site
  • create a network of people with the same interest and share your favourite sites.

Remember: you can always find me on Delicious: KoenCoppens

9/29/09

Real life with only 140 characters

I saw this video on youtube about the 140-character-limit of Twitter:

Thought I'd share :)

9/24/09

delicious.com has got itself a new member

I just joined delicious.com. You can find bookmarks that I find interesting... so maybe you'll find them interesting too!
If you already have a delicious account and would like to add me as your contact: Feel free!

My username is: KoenCoppens

9/22/09

Twitter on my Blogger blog

As you can see, my Blog also contains my last Twitter messages (on the right of your screen).
It's pretty easy to do... You only need to go to http://twitter.com/badges/blogger and click the image:
Just follow the steps, and your done!

First post!

Ok, so yesterday I signed myself up for blogger.com. You may wonder why I would do this? Well It's got something to do with my study. I follow a course that's called "Community Building". And our first assignment was to be part of a Community.
If I want to participate in this community, I should give my readers some interesting information... So, what can you expect? Well bassicly I will post everything that I think could be interesting for the readers of this blog!