Sea Life Scheveningen is located on the promenade in The Hague, overlooking the sea and is a great way to spend a few hours with your kids. Renee Veldman-Tentori visited with her family. Though we've lived in The Hague for many years, we hadn't yet been to Sea Life Scheveningen. We're originally from Australia … Continue reading A Day at Sea Life Scheveningen
On Thursday 28 March 2019, I had the absolute pleasure of talking to members of the Women's Business Initiative International in The Hague about First Impressions Online and LinkedIn. Petra Fisher was scheduled for this presentation, but sadly was sick, so Lisa Hall asked me to step in at the last moment. I was previously … Continue reading 2019 WBII First Impressions on LinkedIn
The 5th edition of the Spark Conference in Amsterdam helped #entrepreneurs to create, elevate and celebrate today, 26 March 2019. With a fabulous line-up of speakers and panelists, I learned a lot and connected with lots of wonderful women (and a few men). I attended Spark in 2015 and 2016 but had to miss the … Continue reading 2019 Spark Women Amsterdam
The Road to the TEDx Stage Exclusive Event Masterclass, TEDx Panel and Boring to Brilliant Book Launch Barbara Rogoski, Senior TEDx speaker coach, invites you to her exclusive event where you can learn the insider secrets for how YOU can bring your story to the TEDx stage. By attending, you will: join a masterclass to learn the … Continue reading The Road to the TEDx Stage Masterclass Amsterdam
Scheduling meetings is part of being in business. Calendly can help cut down the hassle in organising meetings, particularly online calls and webinars as it automatically calculates time zones. Using the popular freemium model, Calendly offers a free plan with limited features, with upgrades available. What I love about Calendly I can programme it to … Continue reading Calendly
If you'd like to make the most of LinkedIn, Melonie's book is a must have. Buy the book here: https://linkedin.topdogsocialmedia.com/book/ I had the pleasure of meeting Melonie in Amsterdam
Welcome to the Zestee blog - this is portfolio of my work as well as a a treasure trove of more than 15 years of my favourite topics, articles, resources, book reviews, summaries of events I've been to and more. You can navigate by scrolling, or via the category and archive dropdowns in the sidebar … Continue reading Welcome to the Zestee Blog
I finally have retired my iPhone 5 and treated myself to a new iPhone SE. Sign in to iCloud One of the best things about Apple is that when you get a new phone, much of your data transfers across. Add Battery % I like to be able to see what the percentage is so … Continue reading Setting up my new iPhone SE
Digital Marketing has undergone some really interesting changes in the last decade. I started Zestee in 2008 with a focus on social media training, as back then, it was a totally new trend. Much of my time was spent explaining to entrepreneurs what Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other platforms were and why they should be … Continue reading 2019 Digital Marketing Trends
On Saturday 9 February 2019, I attended the first Facebook Community Leadership Circle in Amsterdam. Held at the beautiful and super cool Impact Hub Amsterdam, it was an inspiring and interesting event. Of the 16 community leaders that attended, we calculated that our communities together total almost two million members! This event provided us with … Continue reading Facebook Community Leadership Circles Amsterdam #1
On Thursday 7 February 2019, I attended the New Business Summit in The Hague. It was held at the Zuid Holland Provincehuis, an amazing building that I've walked by several times but never been inside....until now! https://youtu.be/9M6_GZaRGvc Hosted by the World Startup Factory, this interesting event brought together startups, stakeholders and investors. Aditya Putta did … Continue reading 2019 New Business Summit The Hague
Rise & Lead Women started as a summit in 2018 in The Hague, the Netherlands and has grown into a movement, under the inspirational leadership of Ebere Akadiri. Recognising the need for entrepreneurs to continue to connect with each other between conferences, Rise & Lead also offer a quarterly "Connect2Grow" session. The first was held … Continue reading 2019 Rise and Lead Connect2Grow
For more than a decade, countless community groups around the world have used Facebook to connect with each other, plan events and share ideas and information. Until now, community admins have needed to learn how to do this online, often on their own. Recently Facebook have created a programme to recognise and support the important … Continue reading Facebook Community Leadership Circles
On Thursday 24 January 2019, I attended the Webwinkel Vakdagen (Ecommerce Expo). Held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, this two day event showcased everything about ecommerce. https://www.webwinkelvakdagen.nl/en Attendance is free, and I went along both out of personal interest but also to research the latest trends for the modules I teach at The Hague University of … Continue reading 2019 Webwinkel Vakdagen (Ecommerce Expo) the Netherlands
On 24 January 2019, I attended the NOT Fair in Utrecht. This name makes English speakers smile, and I was alerted to this by English Coach Buffi Duberman in a video she shared on Facebook. In Dutch NOT stands for the Nationale Onderwijs Tentoonstelling (National Education Expo ) with a tagline "De sleutel voor beter … Continue reading 2019 NOT Fair (National Education Expo the Netherlands)
One of my biggest frustrations in teaching social media and digital marketing is the attitude of many towards using images and other content they do not have the rights to. This is a fairly complicated topic, and I understand that some genuinely get confused. Others know it's wrong - and still do it. … Continue reading What to do when someone steals your images
https://youtu.be/9YFNgKwv31A This video was recommended to me by Manuela Damant of Open The Door Leadership, well worth a watch!Renee
Each WordPress website is completely unique. However they all use common building blocks to create, one of the main ones being themes. These are a type of template into which your website will conform. Every website must have a theme, but the great thing about WordPress is that you can change at any time, and … Continue reading How to choose a WordPress theme: ten simple steps
I've been a WordPress fan since the early days and after extensive research, decided use this CMS (content management system) website/blogging tool for all my websites. Firstly let's start with some background and basic terms, then move onto the main benefits of WordPress in another post (which I'll link to later). WordPress brief background WordPress … Continue reading What is WordPress? The basics.
Here are 10 steps to move your website from WordPress.org to WordPress.com Export your content from your wordpress.org account Import your content into a new .wordpress.com account Buy a wordpress.com upgrade Transfer your statistics from your wordpress.org account if you wishDisconnect Jetpack from your wordpress.org account dashboardTransfer your URL/domain Accept your transfer to speed up the processCheck all … Continue reading Moving from WordPress.org to WordPress.com
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