At the 1% Event on 17 september 2010, the twitterati sent tweets like: “Great energy #1pce” and “Good buzz @ #1pce”,’ Tiina Urm speaking #1pce, www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5GryIDl0qY”. Overall, Twitter is used to inform the followers on what is going on. The tool is great for short announcements, and for referring to Youtube movies and websites. Quick, [...]
Black slaves, black coffee, black oil: Angolan – Dutch relationships over 4 centuries.
Intervention during Angola Conference on 23 September 2010 in Wageningen by Astrid Schipper and Bob van der Winden (see also www.ces.uc.pt/conferenciaangola2009 ) Slaves, coffee and oil… Of course you all know that Luanda was occupied by the Dutch between 1641 and 1648. That was when ships of the West and the East Indian Company sought [...]
Crowd-sourcing by Twitterati at 1%event
Margreet van der Pijl of the 1% club wrote in her blog Quality improvement through Crowd involvement how the 1% club is looking for new ways of evaluation. Gisela Dütting (http://giseladutting.wordpress.com) and I took up the challenge and decided to start with the 1% event last friday, 17 September. We counted on the many ‘twitterati’ in [...]
