Some minor issues

2 great commercials who, by coincidence, have an elevator in common
One up and one down.

Monster

(not sure who made this, who does?)

Kit Kat

(JWT Paris)

If you haven’t heard about the age of conversation, it’s a collaborative project where bloggers all around globe contributed to write a book together. A collection of the most interesting one pagers. The book is printed on demand by Lulu, and profits are donated to charity.
It’s a grassroot project, but I think it’s fair to say Drew McLellan and Gavin Heaton are more or less the fathers of the project.

See my post back then.

Today, a new book project is about to start, read all about it on Drew’s blog.
I decided to contribute, and looking forward to do so!

Good news, you can help deciding on the subject, so cast your vote.
You can choose between: Marketing Manifesto, Why Don’t People Get It? and My Marketing Tragedy (and what I learned)

Another Berlitz ad

Thought the previous ones where better however.

Discovered this (new?) ad website: illegaladvertising.com
2 others just for fun

We all get loads of x-mas and new year cards these days. Good to see a lot of them are digital and pretty creative. Here’s a selection of cards I received or stumled upon.

Pioneer
Nicely designed and executed in flash, if I may say this, because we made this card at These Days.

Glue

I love the idea .. a quiz to win Semelflex slippers. By Glue.

Delhaize

Place your star (and firework) above your recepients house. Nice Google Maps integration by our Belgian Agency.com colleagues.

Nascom

Flex and video upload/streaming. You guys keep on rocking Nascom!

Wunderman team Microsoft

The first Silverlight card I saw. Create your own gingerbread man.

Mason Zimbler

An other Silverlight card .. about Silverlight

Paratel

Well .. actually .. no comment

I love x-mas gifts!

Also glad my way of making pesto is backed up with the big Il cucchiaio d’argento. WITHOUT garlic!
But they do use pecorio as well, will try that soon.

In Christmas time, charity kicks in.
In Belgium, one of the major Radio Stations, Studio Brussel, organizes an event, second year in a row, where they lock 3 presenters in a glass house without food (only protein drinks). The event is called "Music for Life", a nice theme on their normal slogan "life is music".
This year the project is about drinking water and profit goes to the red cross.

The fun thing about M4L is all kind of actions arise from the listeners, really the community
You’re supposed to buy records and that way they collect money.
But other ways of contributing are possible as well.

Like Bart, pretty famous in the blogosphere here. He decided to auction his 3000th tweet, aka twitter message. He asked me if I could contact our customers, but it seemed something I wanted for ourselves, These Days. And so Erwin (our boss) started bidding, and he won. He bought this message for € 400.

It means as much as: "This is the most expensive tweet ever. We don’t have any money left to pay you loads, but can offer you nice colleagues, great projects and lot of drinking water: thesedays.jobs".

Talking about win-win: we gave to charity, got a platform where we could promote our jobs at the same time and Bart saw his twitter followers grow from 250 to 273!
Nice action, nice coop.

If I was HIV positive?

That’s what the copy states in the image above.
The Girl on the image above is the host of the Flemisch version of Dancing with stars (or at least she’s involved).

What you see is a visual of the new Sensoa campaign.
Other visuals on flickr.

I’m so proud, These Days, the company I’m working for, has won the Interactive Agency of the Year award at the Belgian Mixx awards last week. The Mixx awards are quite important in Belgium. Organised by the IAB (why isn’t there a Wikipedia entry?), and with a jury worth mentioning.

It’s an acknowledgement for the hard work the These Days people are delivering on a daily basis. It’s not an easy industry, but so fascinating. I really believe in the things we’re doing, I really believe in our company!
We’re always in transition, as most companies like us. I’m convinced we’re on the verge of making These Days an even better company.

If you do believe in our company too, we’re still looking for some industry professionals. You can check our jobsite for the latest open positions. Since we’re the best, we’re looking for the best
No seriously, I’m personally looking very hard for flash/flex developers, .net developers, a Silverlight aspirant, a DBA, .. If your in this field, and like to join us, give me a call!