34 days ago

It has been 34 day since my last blog post, shame on me because there are a lot of interesting things I should have blogged about. The last few weeks I have been quite busy working on some internal projects for boulevart & online strategy for some of our
shiny new clients.

To me, the strategic part is the most interesting part, the current economic situation offers interesting opportunities for “smaller” firms – more on that later!

Oh and one more thing: from now on I’ll be blogging in dutch again. Switching to English was a bad choice because most of the time it just puts an extra barrier. Occasionally I might write a particular blog post in English if I want to reach a broader audience – consider those articles as exceptions.

Or as Johan puts it:

Dat heeft alles te maken met vlotheid, schrijfstijl, en snel kunnen publiceren wat je denkt. Een vreemde taal zet een extra barrière voor zowel schrijver als lezer.

Finito

I won’t stop blogging that’s for sure – but starting from today, all the articles on this blog will be written in English. The last 2 years I’ve mainly been writing in Dutch; that’s about 376 blog posts – or almost 1 post every two days.

This decision doesn’t come suddenly, I’ve been playing with the idea quite a long time…

Three reasons why I will be blogging in English:

  1. Some of my readers know I recently switched jobs, whenever I’m blogging on our company blog I feel myself more comfortable writing in English. It gives me the ability to put more depth and feeling in some of my articles. Besides that, I will be crossposting some articles every now and then.
  2. 99% of the blogs I follow and articles I read are written in English – that’s not a bad thing, but since I do like to quote and share insights based upon other people’s articles: why not do it in English instead of dutch?
  3. One of the most important reasons: I’d really like to reach new (and more!) people with this blog – share my experiences, insights, my approaches & solutions – to me it’s like making friends in a new town.

Yes – there will be spelling mistakes & grammatically incorrect sentences, I consider this a good exercise and feedback is always welcome.

PS: For now, the dutch articles will remain available.

Zeker lezen

De mensen die vertrouwd zijn met rss kunnen zich abonneren op twee verschillend feeds.
Een eerste feed met de laatste nieuwe artikels en een tweede feed met de laatste reacties. Twee mooie rss readers zijn bloglines, goed voor online gebruik, en NetNewsWire, voor op mac.