Twunch at Rock Werchter Festival

Tomorrow, I’m attending the famous Rock Werchter Festival with my sister. Very much looking forward to it. With artists like Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and 2ManyDJs it will be hard not to enjoy the music. Moreover, the weather will be very sunny, which will only enhance the atmosphere.

At 7pm there will be a twunch (short for Twitter lunch) at the festival, with already more than 35 subscribers. Googling for ‘twunch’ I found out that this is a Belgian invention. The (Belgian) Twitterati love to share their thoughts not only on the micro blogging tool Twitter, but in real life as well. So when you are into lunch at a certain place at a certain time, you launch it on Twitter. Other people, in the neighbourhood at that particular time, can subscribe and join. A great idea. And to be honest, the initiative just hàd to be Belgian, since we can’t get enough of lunch and dinner and beer and wine and … There is even a twunch website, with an overview of future and past twunches.

For my sister it will be the first meet-up with my ‘online’ friends and followers. Curious what she’ll think of ‘the bunch at the Werchter twunch’. And as for the twunch initiative: I hope it will have a long national and international life.

 

Huge rubber duck announces art project Zoom Out

In the harbour of my hometown Hasselt, there is a brand new attraction: a huge rubber duck floating on the water and enjoying the summer sun.

The duck announces the beginning of a challenging art project in Limburg, called ‘Zoom Out’. The project wants to unfold the borders of art, architecture and landscape. Moreover, it wants to find out in which way art can be used in public spaces.

The duck will travel through the region of Limburg and is created by the Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman. It is entirely made out of polyester and doesn’t know any borders or political and cultural preferences. In other words: whoever you are, the duck will welcome you with a kind nodd - if the weather is a bit windy that is .

I’m curious what else the Zoom Out project will bring. More information, also in English, on the website of the Hasselt art centre Z33.

Picture by reinsafe.

while waiting for babes

I’m pregnant, yes I am. Our baby, who we call ‘babes’ while in my tummy, is due around the 23d of November .

Even though being pregnant means being very tired, I have done quite some geeky things meanwhile. Like visiting London with the Girl Geeks (I only had the suspicion back then that I could be pregnant), like going for an @twunch lunch, like attending the interesting conference ‘Social media in Belgium: building brands via social media and blogs’. Like announcing on Twitter that I’m pregnant. I loved the reactions. Some wished me luck with ‘our tweep’ (Twitter person), so babes already has a nickname: tweep.

While in my tummy, babes has already visited a lot of places and met a lot of people. That’s why I started a set of photos on Flickr, named ‘while waiting for babes’. Too bad I haven’t taken more pictures, but there are still 5 months left .

The pics (with comments in Dutch) can be found via this link or you can have a quick look at the slideshow here:

 

girl geeks in london 14 03 2009

Girl Geeks shopping in London

more about “girl geeks in london 14 03 2009“, posted with vodpod

Soon some text on my blog about the special Girl Geek edition. For those who can’t wait: Surf to the website at which it all took place: girlygeekyshopping.

Lynn Langit wants more women in IT

At yesterday’s Girl Geek Dinner in Antwerp, organiser Clo managed to welcome Lynn Langit, a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft.

Lynn told about the Digigirlz programme, which introduces young girls between 12 and 17 years old to technology.

 

Rediscovering my two loves at DNA 2009

What does it feel like to rediscover two loves in one day? I can tell you: great. And it didn’t stop there…

Those two loves?

Preparing to be ‘a journalist for a day’

Actually, it’s ‘journalist for two days’. Frank from Frankwatching (one of the leading Dutch marketing blogs, with over 20.000 subscribers alone (RSS, newsletter, Twitter)) has asked me to report about the DNA event in Brussels for his blog.

Couldn’t and didn’t want to say no, so I took a two day leave at work. For quite a few years already, I have been attending conferences like DNA from a visitor’s perspective. But now it’s time to go the journalist way. Again, because in a far away past  – not that far but it surely feels like that- I used to be a journalist, not the project manager I am today. Curious whether I’ll be able to undust my reporting skills fast enough. But I’m also convinced it will work out just fine.

beautiful geeks

• Last Wednesday: geeking with the girls. Lovely, as usual. Especially lovely, ’cause it was the first time with no males at all. They were banned. Yes, they were. Nivea sponsored this edition and gave us all some great beauty tips ànd a make-over. Nothing for real males in other words. Sorry that the dinner’s heart and soul, Clo, couldn’t make it. She fell ill. Next dinner is on the 10th of March. Topic is ‘mobile’.

 

Blog winter nap … is over

I have had quite a winter nap when it comes to this blog. However, here I am again.

To let you know that I’ve been asked by Frank from Frankwatching to cover the Digital News Affairs event in Brussels for his blog. To be honest, I am honoured and thrilled at the same time. It means a lot to me to get the trust of such a blog authority.

 

Soon I have a poken too

I bought a poken from Kevin de Mulder or Clopin. Haven’t been able to get it yet, since Kevin doesn’t really live next door and since I’ve been more ill than healthy in 2009.

However: next week, I have to be in Antwerp -where Kevin lives-, I will have overcome my disease ( yes, I will   ) and therefore, I can finally see my poken and – more importantly -try it out. Do you have a poken already? And what’s it like?