Happy New Year! It's now 2018 and I've just returned from an amazing month in Australia and New Zealand visiting family and friends. Now that I'm back to reality and "real life" where I live in The Hague, The Netherlands, I've been using this great new energy of the new year to get myself organised. … Continue reading What is bullet journaling?
From 2016-2017, I was one of the lecturers in the IMC - International Marketing Communication or Integrated Marketing Communication. Description from the study guide: This course presents the techniques, supporting theories and the strategic and tactical decision making processes involved in integrated marketing communications. Integrated marketing communications means integrating all promotional tools along with other … Continue reading 2016 IBMS IMC (International Marketing Communication)
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Natali Drake is a communications consultant, author and public speaker. At The Hague University of Applied Sciences she is a guest lecturer in the Masters programme on Corporate Storytelling and Self Branding. Her fiction novels are written under the pen name of N J Simmonds.
On 23 November 2017, I had the absolute pleasure of delivering the Google "offline Digital Workshop" to a delightful group of young students and entrepreneurs of Fellow Rotterdam. This programme is part of a project offered via a partnership of Google with digital agency How & Knower, offering students throughout the Netherlands and Belgium the … Continue reading 2017 Fellow Rotterdam Google Digital Workshop
Google offers digital marketing workshops at higher education institutions throughout the Netherlands in partnership with digital training agency, How and Knower. You can read more here (in Dutch): https://howknower.nl/digitale-werkplaats This programme is part of the Grow with Google initiative, supporting students and business owners to increase their digital skills. Also called the “Digital Garage” there is … Continue reading 2017 Google Digital Marketing Workshops University of Amsterdam
The annual Museum Night (Museumnacht Den Haag) offered a diverse programme of evening fun around our city, showcasing the many cultural institutions here in The Hague. With around 9,500 visitors to the event, the 2017 theme was "Freak Like Me". A grand opening was held from 7.30pm at the Tweede Kamer with Babs Woord Salon: … Continue reading 2017 Museum Night The Hague
I recently had the the pleasure of delivering two workshops at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, as part of a Google Digital Marketing programme: Day 1 of 2: 27 September 2017: Digital Customer Journey, SEO Day 2 of 2: 11 October 2017: SEA, Google Analytics This programme is part of the Grow with Google initiative, supporting … Continue reading 2017 Google Digital Marketing Workshops Tilburg University
Below is the executive summary of my MICM Masters "How can elearning enhance study success at The Hague University of Applied Sciences?". Research was conducted at THUAS from January-June 2017 and you can read more about that here. Would you like to know more? Please contact me. Renee ------- Learning has always been about capturing … Continue reading How can elearning enhance study success at THUAS? Executive summary
After spending the last 2 years juggling working part time at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and also completing my Masters there part-time, I've had limited availability for freelance work via Zestee. However now I've graduated from my Masters, I'm excited to start a new freelance project: presenting the Google Digital Workshop at universities … Continue reading Google Digital Workshops Offline: Joining the How and Knower Team
I've been a social media specialist for many years now and Periscope is a brand new social platform that has all of my peers and I super excited. Here are a few of my notes: "I've not been so excited about a social platform in....forever" says Kim Garst from Boom Social. It's something that allows … Continue reading What is Periscope and Meerkat and why should I care?
Not so long ago, storage options for your digital files looked like this. Are you old enough, like me, to remember floppy discs?! Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Then we moved on to CDs, and USB's and external hard drives. Now, it's probably the most common to use cloud storage. Here's a list of a … Continue reading A list of Cloud Storage Tech Tools
Yesterday, I attended The Hague Awards, which even further enhanced the pride I have of settling in this great city. This "city of three names", (also known as Den Haag and 's Gravenshage in Dutch) continues to grow as a world-class international city, and is a fantastic place to visit, live and work. The awards recognised … Continue reading 2017 The Hague Awards
Here’s a summary of highlighted events for the upcoming weekend in The Hague and surrounds. Click on the links for more details. Please check the websites of the organisers for the most up to date information and any last minute changes. Have a great weekend. Open Air Theatre – The Comedy of Errors (31 August & 1 September) … Continue reading Weekend Special (1- 3 September 2017)
Here’s a summary of highlighted events for the upcoming weekend in The Hague and surrounds. Click on the links for more details. Please check the websites of the organisers for the most up to date information and any last minute changes. Have a great weekend. Jazz Festival Delft 2017 (24- 27 August) This coming weekend from 24 -27 … Continue reading Weekend Special (25 – 27 August 2017)
Yesterday was graduation day. : 2017 THUAS Masters Graduation Day I was awarded valedictorian for the part-time MICM class, meaning that I had the highest grade point average (GPA). Here is my speech: https://youtu.be/qFwfMDMOr34 This is the original text I wrote, which I changed only slightly... The moment I heard I would have the opportunity … Continue reading My MICM Masters: Valedictorian speech
On 18 August, 2017, I graduated from The Hague University of Applied Sciences with a MA (Master of Arts) after completing a two year part time programme, Master in International Communication Management. I received a distinction, meaning that all my grades were above a 7, and was awarded valedictorian for my class, with the highest … Continue reading My MICM Masters: Graduation
It's about online ENHANCES offline. Social media gives you superpowers. Done properly, it can save you time and give focus. It can allow you to reach people you would never have had the chance to otherwise.
Here’s a summary of highlighted events for the upcoming weekend in The Hague and surrounds. Click on the links for more details. Please check the websites of the organisers for the most up to date information and any last minute changes. Have a great weekend. Jazz in de Gracht Festival 2017 (17 - 19 August) During the … Continue reading Weekend Special (18 – 20 August 2017)
Well, I DID IT!! I have now completed my MICM: Masters in International Communication Management. The final step was to defend my thesis. The structure of this was to give a 10 minute presentation, followed by around a half hour of questions from my assessors. It's crazy how nervous I was, considering I know … Continue reading My MICM Masters: Defence
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