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Bloggers and Magazines: Mutual beneficial relationship

One of the panels during the Blogher conference in Chicago last month made me think more about the cooperation between magazines and bloggers. Blogger Marcus Troy called it a gift and a curse at the same time. Magazines NEED bloggers these days, they said. And I agree. But there is a mutually beneficial relationship for bloggers and magazines. The panel discussion started with the question: how do…

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Inspiring stories at the Blogher conference

The best keynotes and panels at Blogher 2013 Chicago are the ones that are authentic, personal and real. It’s not about the newbie sessions about SEO, marketing, analytics and wordpress, it’s the personal stories that rule. A lot of sessions are really American: emotional, women rule, over enthusiastic, humoristic, but still a lot of them have touched me. For most bloggers this conference is about…

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Bloggerconference BLOGHER Chicago

As most of you know, I am in Chicago now for the Blogher conference with Cynthia Schultz, aka Misslipgloss. Chicago is blowing our minds and the conference is really interesting until now. Today we go for day two with Guy Kawasaki, monitzation your blog, finding your Instagram voice and many other sessions. The Blogher conference is being held for the ninth time and more than…

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A Youtube call for (v)(b)loggers

Lately everybody is talking about video in my surroundings. Advertisers want it, bloggers get more followers than ever on Youtube, Instagram launches it’s video feature and my kids can watch it for hours instead of tv. And then I got to visit Youtube headquarters this week so my head is full of video, video, video. Read more about video-networks, the biggest Youtubers, video statistics and…

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Social, visual and blogging innovations

FINALLY! I can come forward with my notes on the conference for digital innovations South by Southwest which took place in march of this year in Austin, Texas. I went there with 13! of my Sanoma colleagues, which was really good beacause it was fun, but we learned so damn much 🙂 and talked so much about it. You can find almost 100 pages of…

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Make money with Rewardstyle

Do you know Rewardstyle? It’s an affiliate network for brands, but especially for bloggers! The good news is that it’s not only fashion webshops where you can choose your products, they are adding European beauty and interior shops too. Had an inspiring meeting today with 24 year old fashionblogger Amber Venz, who happens to be founder of this amazing affiliate platform for brands, but especially for…

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Social influencers in Nieuwsuur (tv)

Zaterdagavond zat in Nieuwsuur het item: ‘Je geld verdienen met social media’. Daarin werden een aantal bloggers en Youtubers geinterviewd en een aantal experts: Beautyblogger Vera Camilla van VeraCamilla.nl Beautyblogger Serena Verbon van beautylab.nl Youtubers Peter en Kalvijn van Cinemates Barbara Gravenstein van Socialnesss Daan Sip van Social1nfluencers Check hier het item op Uitzending gemist: Volgens bovenstaande geinterviewden