According to her LinkedIn-profile (screenshot above is dated June 5th, 2009) Hillary is still running for the office. It’s a pity (and embarrasing) to see that her campaigning-team is using ‘the Internets’ heavily during campaignig. But when that is over, they fall back to their normal, unplugged, dis-connected state. The more obvious it is to see that Obama’s team is still engaged online… No modernistic small talk here.
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Yesterday I had a very good conversation with Tessa Sterkenburg of The Next Speaker. Getting to Amsterdam (where we were agreed to meet) was no problem. Moving around in Amsterdam proofed to be a nightmare: loads and loads of tourists wandering around; seeing nothing but ‘nice canal-houses!’… Anyhow: I managed to get there in time. Had a very pleasant and involving conversation with Tessa and shared the WiFi-password of P-King with her. I think we are ‘getting in business’, so The Next Speaker will manage all my speaking and moderating gigs in the future!
This week I will be blogging for the Dutch daily De Volkskrant. They asked me because of the launch of iens recepten off which I am co-founder. In a way this is curious: they ask people who are ‘ in the news’ to blog a week. This blog will be input for an item in their Saturday-edition (print). So: they are asking people who are rather busy because of the things that are happening to blog on a daily basis. Not the best time for such an effort 
But nice to do nonetheless!
Coming Tuesday (January 8th) Ronnie Overgoor and me will have Hans Hillen in PitchTalk (our weekly TV-talk on Het Gesprek). Hans is chairman of the Dutch Center for Brand and Communication and member of the Senate (Dutch Parliament). We will (try to) discuss the current status on restrictions on commercial communications that were brought up in 2007 and without a doubt will also show up in 2008. Advertising targeted at children should be banned. Commercials for loans, gambling games and paid phone lines (read: sex) should be banned… And so on. Whatever happened to Freedom of Commercial Speech? We will discuss this with Hans Hillen. I hope you will watch and please deliver input before coming Tuesday!
The new Dutch television (and online) broadcaster ‘Het Gesprek‘ (‘The Conversation’) is starting today! Last week we did our first gig that went very well. Tomorrow we are going live at 20.00 hour! Exiting. The format of the sender is to bring out 24×7 talk-television. And because of the length of the programs more in-depth interviews should be possible. The people behind Het Gesprek (HG) all earned their laureates in the genre: Ruud Hendriks, Frits Barend and Derk Sauer.
Ronnie Overgoor transferred his PitchTalk.TV to Het Gesprek. He asked me to join him weekly for the ‘news of the week before’. Then the conversations with two guests start. The first shoot was really fun to do: three slightly nervous presenters (yes! stage freight…) a nice crew, Ruud Hendriks stopping by and encouraging everybody, and two very interesting talks (Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Arjan Snijders). More to come!
photo from left to right: Ronnie Overgoor, me, Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Edwin Valent and Arjan Snijders. Credits: Jochem van Apeldoorn.
For years the relation between the academic world and the ‘real’ business world is a cumbersome one. Business often do not know what knowledge is available within the academic community. And students are seldom truly attached with the problems companies face. Even the reputed business schools often have relationships with few companies. These mainly include the bigger internationals that also hire the alumni of these schools.
But now there is a very smart initiative that might change things: a website on which students put their papers up for bidding by companies. They often studied hard on subjects that are of interest for companies. The companies now also gain insight in what is out there for offering. The highest bidder gets the paper. The initiative Kennisveiling (Knowledge Auction) will be launched during to upcoming Picnic-event in Amsterdam (starting September 25th). I’ll keep you posted on the development. Their website is not live yet.
