For the company I work at (Quipment) I was tasked to make a new direct mail which people received through normal mail throughout the whole country. Below you’ll find the result. Love to hear any remarks and opinions!

When buzzing today I came across a blog which has some great Google Buzz tips.  Andrew Maxwell’s blog features some need tips on how to repost Buzzes and some other great tricks which are interesting for all Buzz users. You can find all Buzz articles from Andrew at: http://www.andrewcmaxwell.com/?s=Google+Buzz.

He also posted a Google Buzz etiquette.  It’s not a real guideline for using Buzz, but there are a lot of things you as a user want to keep in mind when Buzzing around. In my opinion more then 80% of that etiquette should be considered by any Buzz user! It ain’t rules, but please keep them in mind while buzzing!

I recently read an article on frankwatching.com which is one of the better dutch Internet blogs. When something new hits the web or a new marketing 2.0 method has been developed, they’re one of the first that write about it. Well, let’s get back to the contents of the article.

The writer (Steven) is suggesting an idea to pause your newsletter subscription. Some American companies are already experimenting with this and they’re getting a lot of possible feedback. The idea is very simple. Just give the user the ability to pause his subscription for a period of time one most provide. A simple select box or date calendar would do the trick here. I don’t think it would require a lot of work when looking at the technical part of this idea. The only problem is, what if the user forgets that he set a pause for like half a year. After that period he’ll get the newsletter again and then it can look like SPAM. I mean a lot of people don’t remember these sort of things after half a year. A reminder email probably would do the trick, as Steven also mentioned.

At the bottom of the article Steven writes about a pause button or link for social media. Here’s where the idea is really useful. You probably get shocked after the twitter emails you’ve gotten after a vacation, when having a lot of followers it will even get more and more! A pause button will do a wonderful job here. You don’t get the emails for the period of the pause, but it’s possible to look the tweet up. A win – win situation! That’s how I see it anyway. I think these sort of features will get main stream in a few years, they got my vote!

This used to be a static blog page. I don’t think it adds any extra to this blog, therefor I’m converting this to a post.

Most people that know me as a person also know that I like to play around with music a lot! I’m really positive towards almost any electronic music. However a good soundtrack will catch my interest also.

In my spare time I’m busy to put my own music and sounds idea’s in a good sounding track. Unfortunately I don’t have the right hardware to master the tracks. So I really don’t know how the tracks sound outside of the places I tested it with (Car, Computer, Surround set, Phone etc.). When creating music it’s a bit like designing something. You try a million things before you like it and even then it sometimes not what you thought it would be.

I want to provide a way for people to check once in a while what I have been making. Therefor you’ll find my current made tracks/noise/sounds (just how you want to put it) below. Keep in mind it’s all a housy / trance kind off stuff, so when you don’t like that, just don’t listen them .

[audio:GerbenvanErkelens-FirstLight.mp3]
First track I made. In my opinion it’s ready. I don’t want to add more things to it. Would be nice to be able to tweak it in a right way.

[audio:GerbenvanErkelens-Shit!.mp3]
The second track I made. Not really ready at the moment, but an impression.

[audio:GerbenvanErkelens-Goingoutthere.mp3]
Also a  project that’s still in progress.

[audio:GerbenvanErkelens-Outthere.mp3]
The latest addition! It’s again a work in progress, just a quick preview.

Some of you’ll know it already, some of you won’t. But I recently finished an assignment for a Magazine Design where I myself was the subject. We needed to find out where our inspiration was coming from by filling out some forms and get a LEA LEA form out to your friends and family. When receiving those forms back you would find out how people see you. Pretty nice to find that out even if it are things that aren’t that good for your personality.

Well, when finishing the research part we needed to find graphic that fitted our personality and also create designs that fit that profile. This, however, was harder then I thought. It seems that I’m better in designing stuff for others then for myself. At the end I must say though, I’m satisfied with the result.

A low res PDF is located here.