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Netherlands-based company offers Fed agencies room to make facts great again!

After taking office, the new president Donald Trump hit the ground running. To make sure his efforts to make America great again, and not hitting any pesky scientific fact-based roadblocks, he has…

Employee Advocacy: How To Approach It Without Invading Personal Networks

Employee Advocacy: The Numbers

Last week I made the case for using Employee Advocacy (EA) to set up a sustainable online campaign. In…

Employee Advocacy: How to Utilize Weak Ties to Increase your Reach

Why Would I Trust You?

You may have noticed a lot of hype at the moment around conversational services. Everyone is chasing the Star Trek computer. Apple has Siri, Facebook has integrated bots into its Messenger platform. Google has created a chat app just for the occasion of introducing bots. Amazon lets you…

The Conversational Hype

You may have noticed a lot of hype around conversational services at the moment. Everyone is chasing the Star Trek computer. Apple has Siri, Facebook has integrated bots into its Messenger platform. Google has created a chat app just for the occasion of introducing bots. Amazon lets you…

Conversational AI: an introduction.

Is customer service dead?

The other day, my 73-year old father, was grumbling about something he read in the news about automation of processes at the local bank.

An ode to the social media manager

The image of a social media manager at newspapers is often constructed by stereotypes. The generation of journalists who grew up with typewriters, fax machines and pagers, finds it hard to see the benefit of these social savvy do it alls. The gap between their history…

John Oliver nailed the challenges facing journalism, we help to overcome them.

This blog is written by Nine Connections’ Thijs de Bekker, former journalist and business developer.