The League of American Orchestras’ annual conference is just around the corner and this year, to my very pleasant surprise, they have set up a blog platform for (pre) conference discussion called “Orchestra R/Evolution.” I’m even more pleasantly surprised to see they have opened up posting to a broad host of people and inviting...
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Just a couple of days ago, I marked my seven-year anniversary of living in the United States. That is more than a quarter of my life. Nearly five of those seven years, I have been blogging (I launched the first version of Dutch Perspective in September 2005). The first three years weren’t focused. I...
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It’s not an exercise in vanity. It’s an exercise in learning. I started a Facebook Fan Page for this blog and I have roughly two objectives: to learn more about Facebook in terms of options, best practices and measuring, and to learn more about who is exactly reading this blog (and reading it enough...
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I always stress measuring impact and results in social media planning. That’s why I was curious to see what exactly happened this past week. Last Friday, I posted the first list of people and organizations in classical music on Twitter, followed by a Twitter update. I know lists tend to be popular, but this...
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As I mentioned in my last blog post, good things are brewing. The first one I can tell you about is my speaking engagement at the stART.09 Conference in Duisburg, Germany on September 25. A while ago, I got in touch with Christian Henner-Fehr of the Kultur Management blog, as I detailed in a...
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I need a new lunch box. In less than two weeks, I will be starting the Integrated Marketing certificate program at the University of Chicago’s Graham School. Free courses are one of the perks of working for the university. I am very excited to start. It has been nearly five years since I last...
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Lincoln and Darwin both turn 200 today. Visiting Springfield and subsequently the Lincoln Museum, Library and Memorial a few years ago was truly awe-inspiring. And I recently visited Darwin’s memorial at Westminster Abbey in London. With the latter hero in mind, I wanted to re-post an article I wrote in 2005, after discovering Spinoza:...
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This is more of a test than an actual blog entry. I am getting used to my new Dell XPS M1530 and am trying out Windows Live Writer. As I’m setting up my Dell, I’m running into some interesting dilemmas. Although I have been using Hotmail for over 10 years, I am seriously considering...
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As said, I was dealing with this for a while; following the presidential path of community organizing. Speaking of presidential: photos of that glorious night can be found here. Thank you David Axelrod. (And my blog for the Brabants Dagblad can be found here). Although this particular blog was placed on the backburner, adventures...
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I’ll be dealing with this for a while. (Reflections on crisis management, and how not to do it, later).
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