Sinterklaas or Santa

Today, december 5th, it's Sinterklaas in the Netherlands. A childrens tradition where Sinterklaas is bringing presents to the children accompanied by the "black piets". This morning I heard that Sinterklaas is about to be put on the Unesco World Heritage list. This event is forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value for the Netherlands as well as globally. I must admit it's right for us "dutchies". Sinterklaas is battling with Santa here in country as well, but it's part of our culture and to be shared with our kids. While being in Dublin last week where Christmas shopping is on big time, I felt so out of tune hearing the "Merry Xmas" songs through the speakers and see all the beautifull decorated Christmas trees.

I like to stick to only getting the Chritsmas atmosphere into the Netherlands after december the 5th and are looking forward to Sinterklaas visiting us later this afternoon and see all the happy faces around the room. It's probably in our DNA :-)

Merry Sinterklaas!

Getting my own branding organised!

As a social media and marketing specialist, constantly running projects for customers, my own site, branding and social media was really lacking the quality I'm fighting for within my customer arena. Updating the website, connecting it to twitter, facebook and social media was on the todo list for at least 5 years now, as well as getting up to speed with this blog. Today I've started my 2007 new years resolution before the list gets longer moving towards 2012 :-). I've ran into wix.com 2 weeks ago and started using that tool to easily create Flash sites. With tablets not supporting Flash that might need some attention sooner or later but al least I got rid of a that todo list item that was giving me the evil eye for a long time. Check out www.connact.nl and connywenting.nl and let me know what you think!