Welcome
I am Gyurka Jansen and I live in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Currently I'm working a a consultant for a Market Research agency in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. We're trying to find new fast, smart and 'social' ways to do research. I'm an editor for the Dutch website 'DeJaap' and I write articles for several marketing blogs. Every Sunday night, I have a column on tips, tricks and hypes on the internet on Dutch Radio 1.
Using my sociological and technical expertise I give trainings and guest lectures about new media, online marketing and online research. You can read more about me here. Or check out:
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Promoted tweets: super effective!
Posted on September 15, 2010 | No CommentsIf you wondered about promoted tweets and how well they fare: they’re super effective. Or so says online brokerage firm Zecco. In comparison with tweets posted on their normal account... -
‘Lifestreaming’: Research on Social Media takes off
Posted on May 4, 2010 | 6 CommentsThere is a new initiative by Harris Interactive where they’re asking you to connect your ‘social’ profiles to an engine that will analyze your actions in Facebook and/or Twitter. Is this the future of research? -
From Meetup to Commercial Dating?
Posted on May 4, 2010 | 1 CommentThe internet meeting is starting to break through , maybe as early as this year. This development is not only fun and entertaining; it is also a good way to make contact with consumers, customers and business partners. -
Does advertising on social networks have to be at the cost of user experience?
Posted on April 29, 2010 | 36 CommentsGuest Article: On 12th April 2010 Twitter announced its new business strategy to include promoted tweets in its organic search results. This new direction in collecting revenue from advertisers raised many questions among the online marketing community and avid Twitterers. Is Twitter not going to affect the user experience in the network by “polluting” the content with promotional tweets? -
Twitter event: Twittershizzle
Posted on February 12, 2010 | 2 CommentsYou get together with long-time online friends, strangers and everyone in between, while others are still trying to grasp what this is really about. Enter Twittershizzle; an event by Tweeps, for other tweeps, with music, artists and fun and laughter it's both the average get-together as well as networking, listening and performances all in one. -
How do you treat your following?
Posted on February 4, 2010 | No CommentsThe question do you deserve your following might sound a bit odd. After all, if it is a followerbase like on twitter that you have, people have the option to unfollow you once they feel mistreated. Nevertheless it is a good thing to stop and think about how you treat the people that follow you online. -
Broadcasting; information sharing on Twitter
Posted on January 26, 2010 | No CommentsIf one would name sharing, editing and redistributing content as the key to social media, a virtue of this new way of sharing and consuming content then one neglects the underlying question; why this 'works'. -
A blessing and a curse…
Posted on December 23, 2009 | 1 CommentI'm number 8 in the twitter top 40 and Levi Boitelle made a fanpage for me on facebook!