dinsdag 25 oktober 2011
woensdag 26 mei 2010
Foursquare is around you
Using Foursquare at the Tilburg University could be a nice and innovative idea. This way the University would make use of an already existing application whereby students can make use of. Foursquare is actually an application that people can download on their cell phone. After downloading the application you have to log in and synchronize it with your Facebook and Twitter account. When you’re logged in, companies and organizations that are linked to Foursquare, will provide all kind of information (promotions, news etc.) when you are in the neighborhood. The link with Facebook and Twitter takes care that you can see if your friends are in the cafĂ© around the corner.
It could also come in handy if you want to see where your group mates are at the University, receiving news about the university and so on. Another nice feature is that you can become a mayor of a spot by, for example, being the one with the most visits to that spot. This is a good marketing tool for companies because they can connect being a mayor with receiving some discount. This way people could be triggered to visit your company more often. Now wouldn’t it be nice if someone could call him or herself “the mayor of the University’.
dinsdag 25 mei 2010
Using social networks VS. World Cup
woensdag 12 mei 2010
Digital petitions
In the “old days” when you did not agreed with something and you wanted to change that by collecting autographs, it was hard work. You needed to visit the people physically and ask them face to face to sign their autograph to support your statement. When you collected enough autographs, in order to have a strong foundation for your courageous try to convince a stubborn person or institute, you handed the autographs over and hoped for the best. Now a days, the sweaty and ungrateful process of collecting the few autographs you can get for a greater cause is evolved into an easy and grateful process of collecting many times the amount of potential autographs you can get than before. An great example is the unfortunate news about the dangerous striker Ruud van Nistelrooij not joining our National team to the World Cup. This news seems for some Dutch football lovers a problem and consequently is the reason why someone started a website in order to get the Dutch striker to the World Cup. Could take the old way of collecting autographs weeks of precious time, with the help of the website ruudmoetmee.nl the number of collected autographs was after a few days already more than 18.000!
This shows again what a pitty it is...
Although I think Ruud van Nistelrooij appreciate this petition very much, everybody with a common sense knows that, as pitiful as it is, it will not work. Besides that, it is a very nice gesture to the Dutch striker and who knows, what can happen before the World Cup starts.
donderdag 6 mei 2010
UK elections!
zaterdag 10 april 2010
Social network sites; too much of a solution?
Social networking sites are growing to be more and more important. Sites like Facebook and Hyves come up with innovative ideas in order to play an important role in the lives of social network addicts. Those innovative ideas are very often an easy solution for important and/or practical problems in our daily lives. The social network sites began to offer an answer to the question: ‘what are my (old) friends doing now?’ Whereupon, for example Hyves, expanded the possibilities with showing what your own status is, showing where you exactly are in cooperation with Google Maps, paying to be a goldmember (which offers you extra possibilities) et cetera. In other words, everything to maintain and expand your (online) relationships.
But having social network sites interfering in your daily life seems to have no boundaries. Now-a-days it isn’t just to keep up with your friends and making new friends but also about practical things or even very serious questions you come up to in your daily life. The ultimate goal for those sites is that they eventually play a real important role in your life and that it is hard to live without. Hyves recently introduced the possibility to pay with your Hyves-account which means you have to put money on your account and then you can pay with your account in, for example, a bar. In the present, Hyves asks you the question whether you want to be an organ-donor or not. After answering that question the answer you have given will be shown on your profile, so everyone can see if you participate or not.
Regardless my positive opinion about the Internet as a really helpful, making-life-easier-tool, I don’t feel the need to share all my activities and thoughts on a social network site. I rather not want to show the whole world where I am every given time at the day, what I am doing, which jeans I bought and how much it cost or answering important questions like whether to be a donor or not. But then again, for the ones who really feel like sharing such information, the social network sites offer a great platform.
vrijdag 26 maart 2010
Social product development with Quirky.com
Social is the magic word these days. Next to keeping up with your friends and family at social media websites, you can also make money with the social force. The link between social and making money is product development; Social product development.
A quick quide into quirky
The website quirky.com is a great example of real social product development. People with a great, unique idea for a product can assign that idea to the website (after a submission fee) and the idea will upfront a jury. After that process the product becomes real social because many members of the website can, under the name of influencer, come up with colors for the product, a nice name, logo et cetera. After that there is another social step because when enough people on the website order the product they are going to manufacture and sell it for you. The revenue will be shared with Quirky, the inventor and the influencers. This is a way to develop and sell your idea/product with and to people all over the world.