International Marketing Review – English Tweeting Women to follow from Europe
On 27 February, Nicole Simon @NicoleSimon wrote a post on the 101 english tweeting Women to follow from Europe on her blog cruel to be kind. This list intrigued me, so today’s Marketing Review is about some of these women across Europe that are using Twitter. As Nicole says “In the spirit of the recent women2follow OR womentofollow (and also because today is followfriday) I give you 101 English Tweeting Women to follow from Europe.”
Clo Willaerts @bnox presents Who’s using social media and why? posted at bnox saying “there is a little something for everyone here in cyberspace, and these demographic breakdowns of each social site will help you to choose the right community for you.”
Sigrid Schrijft @rrradiogirrrl presents Starting posted at Sigrid schrijft saying “It takes courage and a lot of dreams to start a new business these days. In times of crisis and depressing news reports about the economy taking a dive, cutting all ties of job security and go for it on your own isn’t the first thing that comes to mind for most people. But some are, luckily, courageous enough to take that leap into the wilderness of being a self employed business owner.”
Tamara Gielen @tamaragielen presents Purchasing email lists is NEVER a good idea. Ever. posted at BeRevelant saying “Companies that advertise that they sell email lists “for as low as 60$” should never be trusted. Where did they obtain these email addresses? Did they scrape them off a bunch of websites or did they use other shady tactics like that? By purchasing a list and sending a campaign to that list, you’ll be labeled as a spammer instantly. So stay away from them. Don’t. Ever. Purchase. Lists. Period.”
Henriette Weber @redsoda presents Don’t mess with the internets: Belkin is hiring people to do positive reviews of their products posted at ToothlessTiger saying “Amazon runs a site called mechanical turk, which is a side where people can go and get paid to do stuff that computers can’t do. They get a small amount of money for each task they do. He finds out that an employee at Belkin has posted a task that is called “write a positive 5/5 review for product on website” – for a belkin router that has consistently gotten bad reviews. wow. I really hope this is not going to be a standard way of doing business.”
Nicola Williams @tripalong presents Bettmeralp, Switzerland posted at Tripalong saying “It feels like a secret. Guests arrive by cable car (no cars here mate), pull their cases to Heidi chalets on wooden Davos sledges (the ones pictured in traditional Christmas-card scenes) and hike to fetch the breakfast bread along a snow-filled street so silent one could hear an icicle drop.”
Clotilde Dusoulier @clotildenet presents [Edible Idiom] Un déjeuner de soleil posted at Chocolate & Zucchini saying “This week’s idiom is, “Un déjeuner de soleil.” Literally translated as, “a sun’s lunch,” it is used to describe something that’s lovely but short-lived. When it appeared in the 19th century, the expression referred to those fabrics whose colors faded fast when exposed to sunlight; the sun “swallowed” the colors, as if for lunch.”
Colette Ballou @coletteballou presents Mini Seedcamp Paris 2009 – Call for Applications posted at A View from Abroad saying “Mini Seedcamp Paris aims to connect the region’s start-up community with the wider European start-up scene. We will be bringing together 20 of the region’s best seed stage tech start-ups with experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and developers from both France and all over Europe to participate in a day of intense mentoring, panel discussions and presentations at the super-cool Microsoft Technology Center in Paris.”
Ronna Porter @Ronna presents How to jump on the Web 2.0 train posted at Internet Branding Strategy saying “I’m feeling a little proud of myself as today I made my first presentation to a large audience in German. Now people present in second languages every day (or third, or fourth languages!), and I always have the hugest respect for those that not only manage it, but do it well. While mine was far from perfect, you have to start somewhere – many thanks to all those at the Nuremberg Press Club today who sat through it and gave me such positive feedback.”
Ulrike Reinhard @ulrike_reinhard presents herdict.org posted at Who Is Blog saying “A few month ago, at the Berkman’s Center 10th anniversary Jonathan Zittrain spoke about herdict.org. Now it is online, The site wants to help users take back the web. Have problems with web filtering or inaccessible sites? ”
Liron Tocker @lirontocker presentsCreating a mobile timeline blog (interconnected moblogging) posted at Liron.de saying “One of the things I could never really wrap my head around was the complete and total failure of moblogging as a platform and as idea. Moblogs had a (very) short renaissance period in 2003 when camera phones made their mainstream debut (yes, it was only 6 years ago) and carriers were heavily pushing MMS. There were a few problems back then – MMS to email was extremely expensive and users were heavily restricted by the types of content they could upload – moblogs never really caught on in the way blogging did – even though they probably should have.”
Viktoria Trosien @vik_t presents Danielle Grossi – smeepe: Persistence is the key @ StartUpCamp Switzerland posted at tiburon-tv saying “Danielle Grossi, Managing Director at smeepe.net, thought we need to have a solution to make the planning of events much better and to automate it. Danielle, who put her event- and IT-background together, has a seperate, event-planning company: Based on that experience, we decided we need to put a little bit of programming behind it, spin it off in two different platforms and allow other people also to profit from this kind of technology.”
Delphine Ménard @notafish presents Choosing a Name: The Last Name posted at Not an Endive saying “Most of our societies are rather patriarcal. You get the name of your father. Even the ones that sometimes think themselves much more open and allow women to keep their names really are patriarchal. Take Portugal, which collates both the father’s and the mother’s name in a unique new name. This ends up in children having different names from that of their parents. Which isn’t understood by French authorities, at least a few years back, who had no idea how to take care of my French cousin marrying a Portuguese man and which name was really his (different from both of his parents).”
Pamela Fay @PamelaFay presents Mind Your Manners. Mind Your Business. posted at Business Performance Perspectives saying “If you want to give yourself an edge in the boardroom you’d be well advised to brush up on your Ps and Qs. In today’s challenging business environment, the way that we manage our client relationships is crucial. Here are some simple tips and advice to assist executives who want to improve their manners and ensure better relationships with clients, suppliers and colleagues.”
Krishna De @krishnade presents Why Business Blogging Is Not The Only Answer To Attracting More Clients posted at BizGrowthNews saying “In some conversations I have been having with business owners this week it seems as though they are being told by web designers and marketers that authoring a business blog or joining the microblog comunity at Twitter is THE way to build visibility and buzz about your business to attract more clients in a downturn economy.”
Gita Malinovska @gita_m presents Less than half twitter users have blogs posted at If there is a will, there is a way.. saying “Today I decided to start using Technorati more serious. While I have created account like few months ago I wasn’t using it at all. So I decided to go through all the people I’m following on twitter (and most of them are IT persons based in Ireland) and add their blogs to the favorites in technorati. And believe me or not, it didn’t took me a lot of time. However I was surprised that less than half people on twitter has blogs. I remember survey going around about month ago on twitter for all non-bloggers using twitter. And I thought it was nonsense to put it on twitter as everybody probably have blogs…”
Sian Maloney @giftsandvoucher presents Fashion Show in aid of Irish Cancer Society posted at Gifts And Vouchers saying “The Irish Cancer Society founded in 1963 is the National Charity dedicated to the control and eradication of cancer. They are financed entirely by voluntary contributions from the public and receive no Government funding. Members of their committee all serve in a voluntary capacity and they rely on thousands of dedicated volunteer around the country for much of their activities. The generosity of so many people who give so freely of their time and money enables them to provide their service free of charge.”
Ann Donnelly @omahonydonnelly presents SEO and Content Mangement Systems posted at Search Engine Optimization Ireland – O’Mahony Donnelly saying “For ages we didn’t use any Content Management Systems (CMS), as our main focus was Search Engine Optimization and there were no CMS applications out there where we could use our SEO techniques. In the past couple of years we’ve been integrating and customising php/MySQL applications to suit our SEO needs.”
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