Student communication studies Ralph van der Pauw received the Hanze Innovation Award this Wednesday afternoon. He received the prize for his dissertation on the effective use of social networks by organizations. Van der Pauw performed his research at Capgemini and developed a method for companies to measure if their use of social networks is effective. (Dagblad van het Noorden, 2011)

In February this year I started as a graduate intern at Capgemini. Together with Remko, Erwin and Rick we started looking for the possibilities of a dissertation with a challenging research question on …

Once again we are leaving an interesting tech year behind us. Facebook rose up as a competitor of the large tech companies like Google, Microsoft and Apple and we’ve seen a great increase in competition between these big four organizations. Social and Search started to integrate this year creating great expectations for 2011. Below you’ll find my personal top10 of the most interesting Search and Social professionals on twitter in …