Archive for the ‘Europe’ Category

NEXT Conference 2011 – Berlin

Tweet This week I attended NEXT Conference 2011 in Berlin. It was a fantastic opportunity to rub shoulders with some great marketers from Germany and abroad. The theme of the event was Data Love. I have to admit that although there were interesting discussions on the topic of data, what I found most valuable was [...]

Extreme Vicar – Living on Prayer

Extreme Vicar – Living on a Prayer

Kommt her – Get your Groupon!

Groupon has come to Germany

Going Sozial in Germany

My conversation also made me think about social media adoption here in Germany. However, I still feel adoption lagging far behind…

Christi Himmelfahrt – a German holiday

So really – Germans are on vacation literally and figuratively the majority of the time.

Feeling Foursquare

Twitter is about the here and now, whereas Foursquare is more about the here when you need it

Obamical (my title for The Obama Musical)

I am sure many Democrats are longing for the days leading up to the election in 2008 that brought Obama to power with the claim “Yes we can!” Maybe putting this claim to music will put new life into this claim.

Air France – A Case Study in European Customer Service

Tweet My wife and I flew home to the United States for the holidays with Air France and SkyTeam founder, Delta Airlines. My experience with Delta has almost always been outstanding. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for their colleagues at Air France. In the past, Air France has lost my luggage and I found [...]

Northern Europe and the Great Freeze

Tweet I returned yesterday from an extended vacation to the United States. After a brief layover in Paris, I flew over a white a gray patchwork of fields covered in snow to Hamburg. I was told when I moved here that most people did not even put snow tires on their cars (not that it [...]

Greetings from Hamburg

Tweet Hamburg is a wonderful city buzzing with life – even on a cold, frosty morning. Living in Europe gives you perspective on how the past interacts with the future. I work across the street from the beautiful structure. The company I work for is a high-tech, enterprise software provider. Although I live thousands of [...]

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