When talking to my friends and contacts online, I often come across profiles that do not match the real person at all. It is not, that the profile is fake. Not at all! But people tend to pimp their profiles in order to look cool, fresh, fit. Or at least they leave their young gun profile pic in it while acting quite adult – in ‘real`life. When asking them about [...]

Now that more than 3 weeks passed since my temporary move to Thailand, and after finally arriving at my college and preparing classes, it is time to recap my first impressions. While I talk about Thailand in general on my travel blog, I would like to discuss the topic of eLearning today. As a big fan of eLearning I was hoping and looking forward to implement and use some eLearning [...]

There are a lot of Social Media Superstars (Social Media Consultants) hanging around right now telling you what to do in social media, what not, what’s cool, what’s not and how you should behave online. Some of what is said is good and right, most is bullshit. The usual way with consulting…So let’s set up the one and only social media coaching you really need (to get started). I decided [...]

Last week I held my first seminar for starters in the blogging scene (in German). It all started with a quick idea when some friends of mine asked me again and again how one can set up a basic blog / website. When blogging about this topic on some other sites, I realized that there are still a lot of people out there who are curious about the web 2.0 [...]

We know them all. Those internet superheroes. Doesn‘t really matter in what area. SEO, Social Media…you name it. There are always people that are the ,superstars‘ since they have a gazillion followers on twitter, fans & friends on facebook or subscribers on their blog. How to shovel your own grave Most of those (mostly self called) internet super stars / heroes tend to loose ground when becoming famous. They tend [...]

And of course you can do too! So this going to be a little philosophic but in the end we will come back to the internet / online thing. So wait for it or…don’t. Actually this post is about doing, whining, living and changing. I usually don’t quote a lot of other people, but I’ll start with one of my favorite quotes ever. By the incredible Walt Disney: “If you [...]

I guess many of you did the same during world cup. Setting up a site related somehow to the topic of soccer or World Cup 2010 in South Africa and seeing what happens. Trying to get some traffic, sell stuff etc. So did I. To be honest, this groundshaking idea came to my mind 3 hours before the first match of World Cup 2010. Lets just blame my current work [...]

We know it all. We’re surfing the web and see some guys who seem to publish new posts, books, sites or other work all the time. How can they do all this stuff at a time? Especially when ‘outsourcing’ might not be a reasonable answer? How are they doing it? Do they have more time? 48 hour days? No hobbies? Nope. Most time those guys even seem to have awesome [...]

Since I just heard Chris Brogan talking about ‘how to become a better writer’ the other day, I thought I might add my 2 cents to this topic. Copy & Paste – but better One of his tipps was to listen to other blogs or read current discussions. This is a statement I can support only partly. Reading some stuff is important, sure. You want to keep up with everything [...]

So folks. This is gonna be a hands on post. I am not saying that this is the ‘way’. But this is how we gonna do it. Friends of mine just asked me for a little help in the area of (online) marketing, branding & development, etc. Of course I said yes and I think that’s gonna be interesting to cover from the beginning. Obviously I will not reveal the [...]

Yep, just another conference recap. For those of you who are not interested in one more social media conference: feel free to skip and check back for the next post ;-) meshed#2 – organisation Since I work for the agency who hosted meshed#2 I won’t talk much about the organisation and stuff like this ’cause this won’t sound objective. Just some quick words. I think the organisation was pretty good [...]

Eighth Commandment: Practice Giving Rather Than Getting Whereas I am not that much of a religious guy (I can’t quote every line of the bible) I consider this commandment as pretty cool and important. Not only in religious views but also in everyday life. Online and offline. Unfortunately a lot of ‘onliners’ forget about this commandment (or simply don’t care). Old World vs. World Wide World Some years ago Collin [...]

Feedreader, Facebook, ICQ, Twitter, Blogs, Badoo, Orkut, Direct Message, Reply, Buzz, RSS, Fanpages, like, unlike, reply, myspace, netlog…. Great lyrics by Bonaparte (video above): “You know to much to much to much to much”. But actually I wouldn’t say you know – but you read to much to much to much to much… Most of us know this point where everything is simply to much, right? You open up your [...]