Vacation season is definitely over right now. I’m already back to normal after 4 weeks. This year it was easy to go back to work after three weeks of vacation. The weather wasn’t that good and we did lots of cool stuff, almost everything we wanted.But some weeks ago volleyball training started again, which consists of two training seasons on Tuesday and Wednesday and a match on Saturday. The new course at school, where we need to advise and create a social media strategy also started a few weeks ago. All in all this means spare time is reduced to a minimum. And that’s a hard nut I needed to crack again.

So spare time is over?

Not really, volleyball is also something I like to do in my spare time. But yes, it’s pretty much over considering my activities during vacation. I’ve got lots of time to blog, work on my websites design, other designs, taking photographs and reading some books. Now that’s not so naturally any more. But I’ve managed to prioritize the things I do. (more…)

1. 25 Stunning black and white photos

Photo credit - http://www.rgbstock.com/user/Gramps

This is a question which I’m coping with right now. We don’t live forever, eventually we’ll die. But what does this mean for your online presence? Good question.

Who wants to live forever?

Everyone wants to live forever of course and when looking at social media you’d expect to have an online presence forever, your brand never dies. After death the posts, comments and blogs will continue to exist on public places like tech blogs in my case. (more…)

1. The portfolio of Alex Tass

Although it got published in 2009 and a second edition came along in 201, the book has some “old” stuff in it. The social media environment changes drastically every year. New players are storming the web and old pals retire.I’m currently attending the course ASOM (Advise a Social Media Strategy) @ HAN University. We need to read some chapters from time to time and write a blog post about it. Well, this is the first one of those!

What’s Social Media

In chapter 1 you’ll get explained what Social Media is. Research points out that most people don’t know exactly what social media is, but they all know that it’s going to be important for their companies. This is (derived from the book of course) my interpretation of social media.

“Social media are media (blog, twitter etc.) that people can use to socialise with others”

Pretty simple isn’t it? People are socialising for years….probably since the beginning of mankind, but that’s something I can’t check. Look around for yourself though, on a terrace people are talking and socialising with each other too. (more…)