Today I went to the Volvo site to have a look at their offer and what I found their was for me the ultimate “getting to know” experience. The headline says “Find out about our new conditions in the way you feel most comfortable” and indeed this sentence says it all.

You can have a look at their conditions trough an excel file, a word doc, a YouTube Channel, a Facebook page, … . Any way you want they actually got it. It’s all quite simple but again the experience is just great.

I received a blog relay stick from Communicatiemannen, thanks guy's. but now I got to pass it on to some other bloggers in my blogroll (It has been on my todo list for quite some time to create one but now I'll definitely have to do it).

So my list of 7 blogs to pass the stick to are:

• Cross The Breeze
• Belgian Cowboys
• Advergirl
• Adverblog
• Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog
• Mindblob
• Roodlicht

Absolut vodka launched a series of viral commercials starring Kanye west, I like the absolute concept and the commercials are one by one superb at the moment. The first one to tease everyone looks like a trashy commercial for a stupid product the next one is more a clubby moment about the Kanye product.

The idea behind it is that everyone is visionary and that the everyone's idea could be realized in an Absolut world, so they also created an according site which is also really worth a look and you can also look at the uploaded visions on their YouTube channel or visit the blog.

Anyway these vodka brands have always so smashing ideas and concepts.

A month without any (virtual) presence seemed unnatural but still the lack of time forced me into it. Yes the past months I noticed that a day has only 24 hours and when you take the biggest part away to work a little family time and a little sleeping time you notice quite quickly that a day has is extreme limitations. Anyway enough of this sorry for no posts stuff the flood of good news concerning my blog and the questions of the readers to resume forced me into the posting mood again.

First news is that my colleague Michael Lecuy has agreed to contribute which will help to give more qualitative content, as he's a great graphical mind he will be able to post from a whole different point of view. So welcome to the blogging world Michael and I hope you'll add more content to the blog than you predecessors have done before you (Or maybe they'll see this as a sign and post again) ;-)

Anyway from today on I'll feed you here again with the latest virtual news and actions.

I received this one some time ago from a colleague of mine and indeed sometimes my wife complains that our dinner looks just like this.

Just kidding ;-), but I thought it was well worth publishing.

I'm writing posts on my blog now for about 15 months and reading a looooooot of other posts as my inspiration source and there is one thing that is really bothering me! Most of the time I read something interesting on a blog and a few hours or days later I find the same things on other blogs and almost never do I read the source of their information, something I always try to remember. It's only fair that you mention the writer of the original information you found. So like I said in the beginning of my post it's about 15 months that I blog and that's not so long, but could anybody tell me if that's common practice in the blogosphere to just take the information you read somewhere, rephrase it and just forget to mention the source of your information????

Google became yesterday the Site of the year in Belgium followed by kinepolis and ebay. The blog of the year went to http://onnozelheidmag.wordpress.com/, which was I guess the biggest surprise. Less of a surprise was the group blog award which went to http://gent.blogt.be/.

One thing is for sure the site that won't receive this award is the site of the election itself, when I wanted to have a look this morning at the site http://www.sitevanhetjaar.be/, the only thing I saw was this:

I really don't understand such a big errors. When you organize such an election and the day after when everybody wants to see the results .... the site is down. Such a pity, but maybe it's because I was a programmer that I find these errors so important. I sure hope they get it fixed quickly!!!!!

UPDATE 10:14,
I guess they saw the mistake cause the site is back online.

For the once who don't know what they are looking at here is the explanation in plain English ;-).

Yesterday I saw on Marketingcharts that Nielsen issued another rating of the top social networking and Blog sites we  see in the rating that MySpace sites still has a comfortable top position with 58.6 million visitors followed by facebook but with on 18 million unique visitors.

In the blogging world Blogger form Google still stands strong with 29 million visitors and followed by Typepad and Wordpress but with only about 10 million visitors. The most impressive move forward was from Wordpress with a jump of 290 % from 2.5 million to 10.

On mingle.com you can have a look how addicted you are to blogging. You can already check out my score. I don't know if it's good or bad to have such an high score??
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Jobat and Adhese profiled my blog as one of the Top Blogs on E-media and marketing, Thanks Guys.

7 key rules for a Buzz seeding campaign which I have found on http://www.digimedia.be, sorry it's in Dutch but it are some really good once.

Yesterday a colleague of mine has put the blog of the IAB Europe congress online. The concept behind the blog is the following, it's the purpose that some well known bloggers in the different European country's add their posts so that we'll have an overview of what's roaming in Europe about interactive marketing. More to come about the congress and all what's happening around it.