Time flies

My previous blog post was the last one concerning my project for the course ‘Media Use in Organizations’ (don’t forget to read it if you haven’t already). 10 weeks, 10 blogs. I know it sounds cliché and totally lame, but it is true: time flies when you’re having fun. Because when writing these blogs, I really had fun and I can’t believe I have already written 10 blogs.

I had never thought that I would learn so much from writing a blog. My study is mainly theoretical and there are not much practical things you learn. Mostly, it is just reading books. Thus, writing a blog was a welcoming change in this theoretical environment. Although it probably helped a lot that I like writing. So you are probably wondering what I’ve learned. Remember my first post? I said that I was going to find my way in the digital world and I think I did a pretty good job in finding it. Now I know how to write a blog, what the blogosphere is, how to Twitter, how to use Google Analytics and moreover, I all like it. Furthermore, I got more interested in social media (No, that doesn’t mean that I will set up a Hyves page) and internet marketing.

Off course, I want to thank you all for reading my blog, for leaving comments (although I now know that not getting comments may also be a compliment), for being supportive and so on. I hope that you also found your way in the digital world by reading my blog and staying up to date on Twitter. And moreover, that you had fun when finding it.

The question is: Am I going to continue blogging? I don’t know. Although I would like to, I am not sure whether I will keep on blogging as Carribe24 (but never say never). Why? Well, there are millions of blogs around and mine is just one of them. I have the feeling that my blog is mostly read by friends and family. I don’t know if this feeling is right and it doesn’t matter actually, because I really appreciate everyone who reads my blog. Anyway, I would like to write for a more professional site (such as a theatre, marketing or communication website) and receive feedback, to become a better writer. I don’t know if it will work out, but I might as well try. The thing I do know is that I will keep finding my way in the digital world and hopefully, by the end of my study, I have become a (beginning) expert.

So, let’s end this story with a quote:

The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Peter Drucker

Go create yours! And thank you all!

Where are you?

Location based social networks (What?!) are expected to be the next hot thing. First, let me explain what location based networks are: location-based service is any information, entertainment, or social media service that is available on a mobile device, and makes use of geographical position. No mobile phone, no location based network (but then again: who doesn’t have a cell phone nowadays? No, your grandparents don’t count). And then the social part: you should know what social networks are by now. If not: either you didn’t read my blog or I am not good at explaining things.

Anyway, one of the best known location based social networks is Foursquare. I hear you thinking: nice, but what on earth can I do with it? Well, Foursquare is a web and mobile application that allows registered users to connect with friends and update their location. After you set up a Foursquare account you can link it to your address book, Facebook and Twitter. In this way you can discover where your friends are hanging out. Besides that you can see where your friends are, you can also tell your friends where you are by checking in at one of the thousands of places that Foursquare lists, automatically based on your GPS location. You can leave tips about special features you find around town, such as that the banana smoothie at some bar is very tasty (or not). Other people who check in at that bar can read your comment and you can read comments of others. With this comments feature you can read recommendations on where to go, what to do or what to avoid. But this is not all: It is not just a GPS tool, it is also a game. By checking in at locations you can earn points. The more often you check in, the more points you earn. If you check in at a location more than anyone else you will become the mayor of that location. Yay! Okay, you won’t get paid for this “job” of being a mayor and the mayor of your town does get a salary. However, it is possible that you will get rewards from the company for being a loyal customer.

So, are you already downloading the Foursquare application on your mobile phone? Or don’t you care whatsoever about these location based social networks? Well, I am not a user yet. I don’t like being followed everywhere I go; I’d like to keep that last bit of privacy I have. Besides, I never really had the ambition to become a mayor…

Erasing David

Do we still have privacy in today’s world? When talking about Google in one of my previous posts, I already mentioned that internet knows a lot about you. But what to think of private companies and the government? British filmmaker David Bond decided to find out how much these institutions know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear. Indeed, you read it well: disappear. Erase yourself from the earth.

The UK is now one of the most advanced surveillance societies in the world (but don’t be fooled, your country probably also watches you). The average UK adult is now registered on over 700 databases and is caught daily on one of the cameras located on nearly every street corner in the country. Privacy, yeah right. It is like all citizens are being turned into suspects. But if you’ve got nothing to hide, there is nothing to fear… Or is there? (I feel like I am writing some really exciting action movie now)

David Bond left his pregnant wife and child behind to disappear. Top private investigators took on the challenge to find him. They only had David’s name, photo and 30 days to catch him. Facebook, credit card numbers, addresses, hospital appointments, friends, family: they tracked everything. With a little bit of lying, some sneaky actions and the information of databases and internet you can come far. For example, the investigators set up a site called whereisdavid.co.uk and send David an email saying, “Hey, we know where you are! And here it is on this website”. Remember the IP-addresses we talked about? If David would visit the site, they would know where he was. And what about Facebook? David deleted his Facebook page before he left, but most of the information is not totally deleted. If you’re a private investigator, it is a piece of cake to find that information. And if you can’t find the information, you just set up a fake Facebook profile of the person you are looking for. It’s exactly what they did and that’s how the investigators got information from David’s friends. Or how about corporations? The loyalty cards from your favorite shops, the digital newsletters to keep you up to date. You are in a database and you can be found.

So, did the investigators catch David Bond (his last name fits so well for this documentary, doesn’t it? The name is Bond… David Bond)? Yes, they did. A few days before the end, they caught him. Privacy: I don’t think so.

Trailer Erasing David

The blah, blah, blah about the iPad

The iPad. It is a pretty hot topic: a constant flow of tweets about the latest news of this gadget, 35 million hits on Google, friends discussing whether they should buy one or not and so on. Everyone is talking about it; everyone has an opinion about it. The buzz about this new device: it’s what I call the blah, blah, blah about the iPad.

So, let’s start with the basics: what is the iPad? According to Apple it is “a magical and revolutionary product at an unbelievable price”. Woohoo, what a marketing slogan! Or in normal language: The iPad is a portable multimedia tablet-pc with a multi-touch screen of 9.7 inch and it weighs around 1.5 pounds. You can read books on it, listen to music, watch movies, play videogames, browse the net etc. etc. Nothing peculiar about it, right? Then what’s all the talk about? Well, first of all, it is a new product from Apple. And Apple = buzz guaranteed. Second of all, apart from the talk about what the iPad can do, there is also a lot of talk about what the iPad can’t do and what programs it doesn’t support.

One of the things that lead to criticism was that the iPad doesn’t support Flash. Apple says that it will create negative effects for the performance of the iPad. However, no Flash means that websites and internet videos will not fully work. Second, multi-tasking is no option on the iPad. Writing a document with four websites open: never gonna happen on the iPad. There is also no camera on this newbie. You can watch photos on it, but no camera?! What the? Moreover, you can’t connect a USB-stick to the iPad: you will need an adapter. Hmmm, that’s too much work for me. And last, the iPad doesn’t have widescreen, which means you will have to watch movies in a 4:3 ratio, just like the old TVs.

Off course, it is not all bad people, there are also advantages. Like I said it can do a lot: eBooks, games, videos, photos etc. and all that on a large screen. Plus the iPad is pretty. Someone on the internet gave the following description: “No one does tech-sexy like Apple”. True. Furthermore, the price really is considered unbelievable. The expectations were that this device would cost around $999, while the starting price is $499. Okay, it is still not cheap, but it is way cheaper than $999.

To buy or not to buy, that’s the question. Do you already have an answer?

Making a comment

I asked you some time ago to leave a comment on my blog once in a while, because I’d like to know what you think about my blog posts. But to make a comment, you must off course know how to do that. Since I got some questions on how to make a comment, I will give you a short explanation.

Ready? Here we go! At the end of each blog post you can read the following: Posted by Carribe24 at Sunday, March 28, 2010 (I will take my last blog post as an example). Next to this, you will find the word Comments.

Step 1: Click on the word Comments. A new webpage will open with the blog post and the comments (if any) which were already written by other people.

Step 2: At the end of the page, you can see Post a comment. Write your comment in the white text box.

Step 3: Click on the box next to Comment as. If you have a Google Account, you can choose that option. If you haven’t got any of the given accounts, you can click on Name/URL. Type in your name (and your own website if you have). If you don’t want your name published, you can also choose for the option Anonymous.

Step 4: Click on Post a comment. Et voilà! Your comment is posted. It is quite easy, isn’t it?

Now you know how to make a comment on a blog. Use the knowledge by leaving one;)

Image created by ~Carribe24

Social media stress? Not anymore!

I missed your Twitter updates, why haven’t you been on Flickr for the past few days, your Facebook needs to be updated, why haven’t you written a new blog yet, you didn’t upload any new videos on YouTube, I thought we would Skype last night and where were you in Second Life yesterday? Say that last sentence out loud. No time to breathe right? Social media: it can be fun, it can be useful, but it can also lead to pressure and even stress. And we don’t want that. So, here are the latest tips (thanks to Soren Gordhamer of Mashable) to reduce social media stress. Yes, again a list with tips. I like lists (really, you should see my agenda) and tips, well, you never know if they might be useful.

Tip 1: Take time to disconnect. Looking at a screen for hours, doesn’t do you any good. It freezes your brain and you cannot process information anymore. Feeling a “brain freeze” coming? Then, turn off that computer (you can do that, be strong!) and go do something else.

Tip 2: Breathe. There it goes: in… and out… Now, don’t forget to do so often.

Tip 3: Eat food that adds energy. And that doesn’t mean that you should drink 10 cans of energy drink a day. Eat HEALTHY food.

Tip 4: Awaken the body: move! Sitting at your desk for hours and hours, that’s not going to increase your working ability. Stand up every once in a while: dance, walk, jump or whatever.

I like to add my own tips too (for what it’s worth)

Tip 5: Pick a time. I heard this at a time management workshop: you should pick a time a day (say 8.00 PM) and write your tweets, blogs and so on at that time and not throughout the whole day. The question is: are you strong enough to check your mailbox, Facebook, Flickr ect. only once a day?

Tip 6: I can manage my own time, thank you. So what, if you haven’t updated your Facebook or your Twitter and you weren’t on Skype yesterday. It’s your life; you are in control of when you do what.

And? Are you gonna change your social media behavior? Will you find the right balance? I am willing to try. So now, I will take time to disconnect and move my body.

PS. Thank you for your comments on my last two posts. Yeah…, I didn’t get any. But I understand: it’s the social media stress. For the people who are still wondering what I changed about my layout: it’s the font.

Shopping in the digital world

Also for those of you who don't like shopping

I can be short about it: I don’t like shopping. The first reaction I always get is: “How is that possible? Girls looooooooove shopping!”. Well, I don’t. I cannot understand what is fun about trying hundreds of clothes on and then, if you’re lucky, going home with one jeans. And what I especially don’t like are those vendors who come running to you, the second you come out of your dressing room, to give you their opinion (no offense: I understand, it’s your job). The problem is: I like having new clothes; I just don’t like shopping for them.

We live in the digital world (Yes, we do). Nowadays, there are all kinds of online shopping devices. First off all, we have web shops without vendors' opinions. Yay! Problem one solved. I can just go to HM.com, Esprit.com or whatever clothes store and shop online. They will deliver the clothes to my home and I can try it on whenever I want. But still, I will have to try them on. Too bad, problem two not solved. However, the solution to this is on its way…

In case you missed it, 3D (short for: 3 Dimensional) is hot again. Avatar, Alice in Wonderland, Ice Age and even Titanic will come back to cinema in 3D. The fashion world didn’t want to stay behind: the well-known brand Burberry launched its new collection in 3D at the last fashion week in New York. The experts say that this is only a start. In the future (when, when, when will that be?!) it will be possible to try on clothes without having to change your outfit. A 3D body scan will create a full image of you by capturing about 300,000 points on the body. After the scanning session, you can virtually try on clothes and identify which jeans or sweater fits best. With a 3D body scan, clothing will become custom-made for every single individual. Clothes will fit and you don’t have try them on. Look, now we’re talking!

So are you also counting days till you can try on clothes in 3D? Or are you a shopping lover who likes to try on clothes? If you are, I challenge you to convince me that shopping is fun. If you’re not, join the club (we already have one member: me)!

Spot the difference

Okay, it was time to change a feature of the markup of my blog again. I still like the "old" layout, especially now spring is about to start (the layout gives me this spring/summer feeling). Did you see the first sunbeams last week? Too bad that today is a bit cloudy. But that's the Netherlands: fickle weather. Maybe I should move to a sunnier place. Oh wait, the sun starts to shine now! Anyway, I am straying from the subject: the markup of my blog. Since I didn't want to change the layout, I had to modify something else. So, I did! I kinda doubt if you notice it though. It's like that game: spot the difference. I substituted my Twitter button (cute, isn't it?!), but that's not the main feature that I changed. Have you spotted the difference yet? Maybe it is a lot more obvious than I think it is. You tell me.

A new blog will soon be online! It will be about shopping. And I hear all the men thinking now: no, not about shopping! Hmm, I am suddenly wondering if there are many men reading my blog, but that aside. Don't worry guys, it won't be a girly shopping blog. Not at all. Well, till then: keep on reading.

And the sun is gone again. Stupid weather.

Lay’s wants your taste

Image created by ~Carribe24

Are you a chips (or crisps, whatever) freak? Are you tasteful? Are you into something new? Or would you just like to win money (and let’s be honest: who doesn’t want that?!)? Then the new “Create your own taste” campaign from Lay’s is for you to watch. Chips brand Lay’s is looking for a new chips taste and name, which will be brought on the market as a Lay’s Limited Edition chips in January 2011. And it is up to you, the consumer, what kind of taste that will be. Every Dutchman can invent a new chips taste and send in his or her idea until May the 2nd. You may just come up with the best chips taste and win 25.000 Euros and 1 percent of the sales. Marketing? Off course. The campaign’s kick off at the television program Life4You was just a start. There are still TV-commercials, posters, point of sale materials and way more markethingies (indeed, that’s not a word, but I like it) waiting for you. Besides, network sites like Hyves, Facebook and Twitter (there they are again!) play a part in the campaign. To send in your personal flavor, you must go to lays.nl. Sounds familiar? Yes, it does! What have I taught you when talking about the Zeeman campaign? Right, in this way you are triggered to the site of Lay’s. Marketing, marketing, that’s what is all about. In the end, a jury will pick three tastes which will be available in the stores from October 2010. The Dutch consumer can then vote for its personal favorite taste.

This campaign already aired in Britain and Australia under the name “Do Us a Flavour” (whoever came up with that slogan: I love it). In the United Kingdom, the campaign lead to more than one million entries with tastes such as Chili and Chocolate, Fish and Chips and the final winner: Builder’s Breakfast. This chips flavour has the taste of bacon, sausages, tomato and eggs. Sounds like an English breakfast to me. Will we have typically Dutch tastes like hotchpotch or curly kale? And will this Lay’s campaign also become a big hit? A Zeeman the second? Who knows, that’s your call, I mean, taste.

PS. Do Me a Flavour and leave a comment about what you think of this campaign. What’s your taste?

How to get more Twitter followers

Last lecture my teacher was talking about how to promote your blog. One of the things she said, was that we should make friends on Twitter. With my quite low number of 20 followers (not that I am not happy with you guys), maybe I should do so. But how? I mean you can’t buy friends on a market. How to get more Twitter followers? Here are the latest tips from the net.

Tip 1. This tip differs between the “experts”. Some say you should follow users who follow you back. According to this man (John Chow, who has more than 50.000 followers. You would say he would know something about this topic) you should have at least 100 followers; otherwise you will get negative social proof. People don’t want to follow people with little followers. Hmm, this is not good news for me. Others tip givers tell us that you will have to add people, but not blindly. You have to follow people so you want to make sure they’re interesting to you. I think I am going to stick with this last option.

Tip 2. Explain to your followers what retweeting is and encourage them to retweet your links. So here comes the explanation: at the end of each tweet you can click on the option ‘retweet’. I encourage you to retweet my blog links.

Tip 3. Tweet regularly. I have 35 tweets so far, so I am on my way. But hello, I also have a life to live.

Tip 4. Start a contest. @jasoncalacanis offered a free Mac Book Air if he would reach the #1 most followed spot. He never made it to that first spot, but he got thousands of followers this way. Okay, I am not that anxious to get more Twitter followers. Maybe you are. In that case, I like to win that Mac Book.

Tip 5. Be worth following. Be interesting (anyone knows how to measure your interestingness? Because, I don’t), be informative, be interactive, be promotional, be personal, be considerate and try to find a balance of all the characteristics just mentioned. Good luck with that!

Reading all these tips, makes getting more followers look like a contest. It kinda reminds me about primary school, when your classmate said that he had more Pokémon cards than you. Maybe, I am gonna do something with these tips, maybe I don’t. I will find my own way in the social media, with or without hundreds of followers.

Comments please

This is not really a serious post with respect to the content of media use, but not all things on this blog have to be serious. So, I have been blogging for a few weeks now and I must say: I really like it. Although, it takes a lot of work: searching for information, trying to write something sensible, making the post fun to read, working on your blog layout and so on. But well, no one said it was going to be easy. Despite all this work, I like blogging. I have always liked writing, though I am not really a diary kind a person. I like writing for other people to read it, not only for myself. This actually brings me to the point of this post: I like writing for other people. I like writing for you, the reader, whoever you are. But the hard thing about writing for you is that I can’t read your thoughts about what you think (it would be a bit scary if I could). I can track visitors, email subscriptions and my followers, but I can’t track your thoughts. The only way for me to know what you think is by you leaving a comment. I really like to know what you think about my blog topics, about my blogs in general or whatever you have on your mind. Just leave a comment.

You know last night I saw this movie called Julie & Julia with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. It is about Julie Powell (Amy Adams), who starts a blog about her challenge to cook 536 recipes from Julia Child's book “The mastering of French cooking” in 365 days. Her blog becomes immensely popular and Julie Powell is writer nowadays. I think that is pretty cool: You start a blog and it turns out to be hit on the internet. You get between 50 and 600 comments on your blog and hundreds of readers, followers and email subscriptions. I know that in the current blog environment with millions of bloggers it would take quite some luck to become that popular. I am not saying that I want to become such a big blogger hit, I am already a happy with a few comments once in awhile.

New blog layout

As you can see I changed my blog layout! The other blog style was a little bit boring, so I made a whole new layout. Hopefully you like it, because this is what my blog will look like for the next few weeks. It took me a whole evening to do this, but I think it was worth it. Thanks to Crazykira-resources and above-and-beyond for their brushes (both can be found on deviantart.com). Stay tuned for my new blog! Till then you could read the old ones again;)

The hype around the Zeeman boxers

Have you seen the big Zeeman underwear billboards? Well, I have. After all, it is almost impossible to miss them. These new Zeeman boxers are a hype. So Björn Borg and Calvin Klein: move over! Zeeman boxers are the bomb! They are hot. They are sexy. If you don’t have one, you don’t count anymore. Wanna be cool? Buy a Zeeman boxer and wear it with pride. Or at least, that’s what is being said nowadays.

So what is so freaking hot about this Zeeman boxer? Because, let’s be honest: they are not really pretty (or maybe I have no fashion feeling whatsoever). I mean: They are YELLOW. Actually, this boxer is just wrong. But that’s the thing: it is totally wrong and that makes it cool. Still following me? The Zeeman boxer is an anti-fashion statement. It says something like: I don’t need an expensive Björn Borg to be cool, because my Zeeman boxer is way cooler and more importantly, much cheaper. And that people, is what we call hot.

The hype around the Zeeman boxer is so big that the company sold 8000 boxers within 4 days. In total, there are already about 40.000 boxers sold. They even had to stop the selling of the underpants for a while, because Zeeman couldn’t handle the demand for it (it is open again since a few days, so hurry to get one!). Talk about how a little marketing can help you to become a cool brand.

Zeeman’s marketing manager Jacques van der Bom probably got a salary increase, since he is the man who came up with this strong campaign. It is a wink to big companies who sell underwear for a high price. With the campaign for the Zeeman boxer, he wanted to show that good underwear doesn’t have to be expensive. The words for free always help. Try it: just say for free and people are listening. However there’s a snag to it: you have to pay €3,90 to deliver the boxer to your home. But still, we call it “for free”, because that just sounds way nicer. Besides that, you create a little buzz on Twitter and Hyves (Uber-cool Zeemanboxers hyve). Also a good trick of the campaign is that you can only buy the boxers online. In this way you are triggered to the renewed site of Zeeman where you can see all their products. And there you have it: the success story of Zeeman. What a boxer can do.

Google is watching you

You want to know who invented Valentine’s Day? Just Google it! You wanna see the new video clip of John Mayer? Go to YouTube! How do I get from Amsterdam to Utrecht? Google Maps is there for you! Curious what the Grand Canyon looks like? Thank God, we have Google Earth. Help, I can’t find that really important document on my computer! I have good news for you: Google Desktop will find it. Sending postcards takes way too long, don’t you think? Use Google Mail (Gmail) and messages will arrive within a second. Isn’t this all just great? Google has a solution for everything. And it is all for free! You think it’s for free? Think again.

Like my mom always says: nothing is for free. Well, moms can be right sometimes, not always, but sometimes. Indeed, nothing is for free. Google wants something back. What? Information. About you. The search terms you type into Google are saved for the next few years, combined with the unique IP-number of your computer. Just think for a minute about what you type into Google. I will wait…

Done yet? Let’s go over it then. So, you probably typed in your own name into Google (Don’t claim you didn’t. Everyone does that, it’s not a crime.) When using Google Maps, you typed in your address. After all, you are leaving from your own home right? Or how about the company you work for or your study? Hobbies, travels, you name it. We Google it and they know, because you told them. Well, at least our Gmail is private. Yeah, I don’t think so. Google scans it.

Why does Google do this, you might think. According to them, Google wants to personalize information. In a few years Google hopes to make it possible to ask the search engine questions like: “What shall I do tomorrow?” or “What job should I take?”.

Don’t get me wrong: I love Google. In fact, it’s my favorite site and I use it for all kinds of things. But these are the stories going around about this company (if you’re interested, you can find them on (where else?!) Google). The question is: do you think this is all true? Or is this just exaggerated gossiping? That’s up to you.

PS. Don’t let this blog scare you to sign up for email updates for my blog. Remember, not everything is what seems and the same holds for these kinds of stories. See you with my next blog!

The touch screen virus

You have probably all heard about the introduction of Apple’s newest gadget: the iPad. If not (under what rock have you been living?), I will catch you up. The iPad is a kind of tablet PC, which has a multiple touch screen. You can page through websites, watch movies, write an email or run whatever application with just a click of your finger. No mouse or pencil needed. Just your hands. The magic of the touch.

Touch screens are “hot and happening”. Everywhere you look are touch screens: mobile phones, computers, the ticket machine at the railway station and the list goes on and on. Why do touch screens suddenly spread like a virus? Well, the big popularity started with the introduction of Apple’s iPhone. It used a multiple touch screen (which just means that you can use multiple fingers for a variety of touches and gestures on the screen) and that made people run to the stores. We could now touch a screen with multiple fingers! Run and tell that! Okay, all kidding aside, because this actually was a major revolution in the development of the touch screens. Just think of the fastness and how direct touch screens are. Besides, you don’t need a keyboard or a mouse anymore, so it saves quite some desk space.

Microsoft Surface goes even further: it designed a computer tucked inside a table, with off course: a touch screen. It does not only recognize finger touches, but also objects like your phone or your credit card. Just pay via your screen. But we have big, bigger, biggest. That’s what Jeff Han must have thought. A table was apparently not big enough for him, because he even invented a multi-touch wall. I repeat: A WALL!

Keyboards are so 2009. Touch screens are the future. All I still need is 100,000 dollar to buy me a multi-touch wall. Anyone who wants to contribute?

Blogging my way into the world

“It is obligatory to join Twitter and to start a blog”. These were the words my teacher used in the first class of ‘Media Use in Organisations’. Okay, she is kidding right, I mean I don’t HAVE to, right… right? It turned out that she was completely serious. I have to join Twitter and start a blog. Me, a person with no Facebook, LinkedIn, Blogger, LiveJournal, Twitter or whatsoever, has to join two of these communities! I guess I can say it’s kind of revolution. Or at least for me it is. The reason was simple: “You are studying digital media and social media are a part of that”. Well, there she had a point.

“Off course, I don’t have to blog about my life, hobbies or my pet (which I don’t have, but that aside). My teacher would probably not be really interested in that kinda stuff. No, the blog has to be about the use of information and communication technology. I can hear what you’re thinking: information and communication technology, excuse me, what?! So, here is a mini lecture to explain. Information technology: well, I am using it right now! Word, for example. Or how about Excel, PowerPoint or sales- and risk analyses that companies use. Communication technology: I am using that too at the moment, namely my blog. But also twitter, videoconferencing or email. In the next few blogs I will be talking about these kinds of things and how organisations use them.

For so far this introduction. As you can see, my social media revolution starts today. I will be finding my way in the digital world. Hopefully, you will find it with me and follow my blog (please stay around for at least two minutes, so that I can reach my goal) and not to forget: my Twitter. See you around!