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TIS Picks: 5 Top Sports Videos

Even when you think this generation of athletes is the absolute best in their field, future generations will blow us away anew, setting new records. Speed, height or distance, every dimension and record will be conquered again. Many sports records have been broken in the last decade to an ever increasing advance in sports technology. Here is our pick of the 5 best and most breathtaking videos on SPORTS.

1. Top level tennis tracker

Babolat PLAY is the world’s first connected tennis racket and has very accurate sensors in the handle that record information about a player’s game. The information recorded can later be transferred to smartphones or laptops. Let’s PLAY!

Just watched TIS.tv: How to use Babolat PLAY

According to Simone de Bruin ‟Babolat Play – the first connected tennis racket. Send training data to a computer and…www.tis.tv
2. A very rewarding football

Uncharted Play is using sports and play to empower people. By kicking a soccer ball around the ball will charge itself, energy which later can be used as an off-grid power source..

Just watched TIS.tv: A Soccer Ball That Can Provide Power To Underdeveloped Villages

According to Johan Schaap ‟Soccer / Football is huge in large parts of the world. So why not use a soccer ball to…www.tis.tv
3. Powerful stuff!

We cannot wrap our heads around this: D3O’s smart material is engineered to be soft and flexible in standard conditions, but will change to a solid form on impact! The possibilities and applications of this blindingly orange material are endless, as it can keep many athletes, motorcyclists and soldiers safe.

Just watched TIS.tv: D3O Protective Material in CCM Gear

According to Simone de Bruin ‟D30’s shock absorption material is the future of protective gear in a range of industries…www.tis.tv
4. Empowering the blind

We can say a lot about this video, but you just have to look yourself. Okay, one thing: it will change the upcoming Paralympics. Well done, Samsung!

Just watched TIS.tv: Blind Cap

According to Erwin Blom ‟This is innovation for blind swimmers. A connected cap!”www.tis.tv
5. Mixed Reality Golf

We’re positive we haven’t seen half of what Microsoft’s HoloLens can do. Here’s another application: use it for golf analytics and fan engagement! In only 8 weeks the designers at Taqtile have come up with an interactive golf course that shows collected data from pro players.

Just watched TIS.tv: Microsoft HoloLens | PGA TOUR at Worldwide Partner Conference 2016

According to Simone de Bruin ‟Building a new (fan) experience in sports, golf to be exact, with the Microsoft HoloLens…www.tis.tv

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Spargle.nl zoekt een Conversie Optimalisatie Specialist

Opportunity via Spargle.nl

Spargle is op zoek naar een conversie optimalisatie specialist voor een toonaangevend dialoogmarketingbureau. Je bent analytisch, thuis in marketing en staat open voor een internationaal gerichte werkomgeving.

Wat is jouw rol?

Je bent fact-based en resultaatgericht. Samen met je collega’s uit het Optimalisatie & Analytics team draag je bij aan het optimaliseren van de klantcontactstrategie van toonaangevende merken uit binnen- en buitenland. Elke dag werk je aan een verdere verbetering van bestaande en nieuwe loyaltyprogramma’s en campagnes. Offline en Online. Hierbij kan je denken aan het optimaliseren van customer journeys en website funnels tot het verschil te maken met getriggerde e-mailmarketing, het maximale te halen uit push notificatie campagnes of het effect van een fysiek poststuk door te meten.

Tijdens je werkzaamheden houd je trends en ontwikkelingen in de markt en ons vakgebied scherp in de gaten. Het pro-actief spotten van mogelijke verbeteringen op basis van inzicht, ervaring en nieuwe ontwikkelingen is voor jou een vanzelfsprekendheid. Word je enthousiast van monitoring, reporting en het optimaliseren van programma’s en campagnes in verschillende landen en verschillende kanalen? Dan is hier jouw kans om bij een toonaangevend bureau te werken voor A-merken!

Wat neem je mee?

Minimaal WO niveau en minimaal 3 jaar werkervaring
Ruime kennis van online marketing, specifiek van emailmarketing, CRM en klantcontactstrategieën
Een teamplayer die zich bewust is van zijn omgeving en de organisatie
Ervaring in rapportage- en / of data visualisatie tooling is een pre (bijv. Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics of Tableau)
Uitstekende spreek- en schrijfvaardigheid in de Nederlandse en Engelse taal
Uitstekende communicatieve en adviesvaardigheden

Wat mag je verwachten?

Dienstverband met arbeidsomvang van 40 uur per week
Marktconform salaris
Standplaats in ons authentieke kantoor in de binnenstad van bourgondisch Den Bosch
Mogelijkheid tot werken op de locatie van de klant
Een dynamische werkomgeving met 150+ leuke collega’s
Jij denkt dat het altijd beter kan, wij denken dat ook! Je wil jezelf verder ontwikkelen en je bent bij ons precies op de goede plek
Het barst hier van de (door)groeimogelijkheden. Zie je kansen? Grijp ze!
Ruimte voor kennisdeling en ruimte voor eigen ontwikkeling
Informele werkcultuur binnen een ambitieuze organisatie
Een plaats in een gezonde onderneming met een rijke toekomst
Dynamiek en variatie

Ja, dit is zeker iets voor mij!

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Expert Selection: Not All Blockchain Is Bitcoin

Lykle de Vries

Lykle de Vries (1970) has been a Dutch Digital front runner for a while. He picked up on Bitcoin in 2011 and co-created a wildly popular Blockchain Explanimation ( Bitcoin Properly ) in 2014, which has been translated in numerous languages and has well surpassed 500.000 plays. Lykle is active as  @BitcoinEvangelist  and keeps close tabs on all Blockchain-related developments. He also gives workshops on Blockchain and its possible use cases which are well received and his talks on the subject are rated highly.

The first (reference) implementation of Blockchain is Bitcoin
Just watched TIS.tv: How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood

According to Simone de Bruin ‟A technical approach to the blockchain – how does it work under the hood? Made by Scott…www.tis.tv

“This is an awesome, 22-minute explanation of what goes on ‘under the hood’ of blockchain technology. The animated video by Scott Driscoll uses straightforward examples and terminology that will help most people understand what the Blockchain actually does.”

Just watched TIS.tv: Andreas Antonopoulos:

According to Simone de Bruin ‟Tech entrepreneur Andreas Antonopoulos discusses the history and future of money which…www.tis.tv

“Possibly the best speaker regarding Bitcoin is Andraes Antonopoulos (@aantonop). During the 2015 Reinvent.Money conference he talks about the history of money and why Bitcoin is such a necessary and revolutionary solution.”

Just watched TIS.tv: Four Horsemen – Feature Documentary – Official Version

According to Simone de Bruin ‟This award winning documentary discusses the current economic system and brings forward…www.tis.tv

“Why does it matter to have an alternative to the monetary system that we’re all used to? Perhaps this award-winning documentary ‘The Four Horsemen’, written and narrated by Dominic Frisby (@DominicFrisby), can help explain. Frisby is not only a well-known comedian in the UK, but he also wrote two interesting books ‘Life after the state’ and ‘Bitcoin: the future of money?’. In this second book he describes his first encounters with Bitcoin and his search for the enigmatic Satoshi Nakamoto.”

Not all Blockchain is Bitcoin…
Just watched TIS.tv: The real value of bitcoin and crypto currency technology – The Blockchain…

According to Simone de Bruin ‟Referred to as THE Blockchain Explanimation, this animation will go through the most…www.tis.tv

“I would be remiss not to mention the video I helped co-create; in 2014, Patrick Loonstra, Sebas van den Brink, Rutger Zuidam and myself felt that something big was happening with Bitcoin, but we were disappointed not to find a suitably attractive video that explained the future potential of Blockchain technology. So we created one ourselves. In this video you get a quick first glance at possible use cases for Blockchain technology.”

Just watched TIS.tv:

According to Simone de Bruin ‟Having trouble differentiating between the terms bitcoin and blockchain? Let tech…www.tis.tv

“In the second video of this selection, you could already watch a masterclass on the history of our monetary system by expert Andreas Antonopoulos. In this video Antonopoulos helps us spot the differences between Bitcoin and Blockchain.”

Just watched TIS.tv: Vinay Gupta – Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin

According to Simone de Bruin ‟Calling himself a Global Resilience Guru, Vinay Gupta explains how we hypothetically can…www.tis.tv

“Thinking beyond Bitcoin is something that self-proclaimed Global Resilience Guru Vinay Gupta (@leashless) does best. Check his presentation at the 2016 OuiShare Fest, in which he also gives a short history of computing.”

Just watched TIS.tv: Marc van der Chijs and Moe Levin and how the blockchain can improve the world

According to Simone de Bruin ‟Paul Buitink interviews bitcoin experts Marc van der Chijs and Moe Levin. They discuss…www.tis.tv

“In this video, Paul Buitink one of the people behind the reinvent.money YouTube channel and conference interviews Jop Hartog (BlockTrail), Marc van der Chijs (Cross Pacific Capital) and Moe Levin (ABN AMRO) about possible Blockchain use cases.”

Just watched TIS.tv: DIA Barcelona 2016 – Keynote – Everledger

According to Simone de Bruin ‟In this keynote, Leanne Kemp (CEO Everledger) explains how the blockchain can help stop…www.tis.tv

“Leanne Kemp (@leanne_kemp) has an appealing use case for Blockchain technology: recording the provenance of diamonds. Using Everledger, the complete history of a diamond is recorded, allowing to detect so-called ‘blood diamonds’.”

Just watched TIS.tv: How Blockchain can Change the Music Industry – Midem 2016

According to Simone de Bruin ‟This Midem panel debates blockchain applications in the music industry: copyright…www.tis.tv

“Or perhaps, Blockchain can help reinvent the music industry? Here is a panel from the 2016 MIDEM conference moderated by Allen Bargfrede (Rethink Music) and featuring: Joe Conyers (Downtown Music Publishing), Bruno Guez (Revelator), Vinay Gupta (Ethereum), Benji Rogers (PledgeMusic) and Imogen Heap (Music Artist).”

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Questions from Gig Workers at ‘Reshaping Work in the Platform Economy’ conference

At “future of work” conferences there is usually a lot of talk about gig workers. Opportunities to talk with gig workers are much less common, however, even though they are arguably the most important stakeholder group out there. After all, it is their future that is at stake here. To include gig workers in a debate that is essentially about their lives and livelihoods, this session is structured around the questions and comments they bring to the table. What are their perspectives, priorities and uncertainties? What changes would they like to see with respect to how their work is organized and valued – if any? And is there even a unified “they” to begin with?

In this session:

PANELISTS

Laurin Sepoetro,  Senior Associate, EU Public Policy at Uber

Michelle van Os, Managing director Helpling Nederland

Josien van Breda, Independent Labor Market Consultant

ARTISTIC PERFORMANCE

 Alina Lupu, Conceptual artist

PLATFORM WORKERS FROM

UberEATS, Helpling, Foodora, Upwork, Uber and more.

This recording contains 5 video’s: a recording of the ‘Questions from Gig Workers’ session and 4 introduction talks by the 3 panelists and Alina Lupo, conceptual artist and gig worker.

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What makes a job stressful and harmful to your health

Some jobs are highly demanding, you work long hours and have to deal with a lot of pressure. Some jobs not so much. But having a highly demanding job is not necessarily what make you stressed out. So what is the relationship between stress and our jobs? This study made by the Indiana University throws some light over that matter.

The University realized a study with 2.363 people in their 60s for a period of 7 years and had some interesting insights. As it is imagined the people with high job demands had 15.4% more chance of dying during the 7-year-period than the people with low job demands. But there is a plot twist. For the people with a high control over their high job demand, the chance of death was 34% lower than for the people with a low demand job.

What I mean with high control is people who could make their own timetable, define their priorities and goals. The people with flexibility in work were the ones who thrived in a job with high demands and pressure. And it is important to note, they didn’t only thrive on work performance, but in their health and well being. When on the other hand, people with the same amount of pressure and demands were the most likely to die when in a low decision-making post.

“These findings suggest that stressful jobs have clear negative consequences for employee health when paired with low freedom in decision-making, while stressful jobs can actually be beneficial to employee health if also paired with freedom in decision-making.”

Erik Gonzalez-Mulé, the author of the study, told the Indiana University. Gonzalez also discussed that employers don’t need to change the expectations of their employees. But rather give them more flexibility. So yes, the study suggests that micromanaging can be harming to public health.

Also when addressing why people with less freedom tend to be less healthy, Gonzalez says that the people in those jobs also presented a higher body mass index. His insight is that people with less freedom might cope with the high-pressure environment by eating more or smoking. The leading causes of death of the people in the study were circulatory and respiratory diseases and cancer.

The study published in the Personnel Psychology magazine is thought by the authors to be the first one to relate job characteristics with a likelihood of death. You can read their whole study here.

That’s good news for all the freelancers and remote workers out there!

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In the spotlight: Permanent Future Lab

Jurjen de Vries (links) en Samir Lahiri (rechts) vertellen over het succes van: Permanent Furture Lab (PFLab)

De plek om technologie en kennis te delen

Het PFLab is heel anders dan wat men kent. Er is een behoefte bij mensen om weg te gaan bij instituties en ‘dingen die moeten’. Dat je gewoon mag spelen, mag zijn wie je bent. Of je nou jong of oud bent.

Zelfs aliens zijn welkom.

Permanent Beta zegt heel mooi dat zij geloven in de creativiteit vanuit vrije wil en niet vanuit kennis en macht. Dat is zeker ook voor ons een succesfactor.

Samir kwam bij S2M terecht voor een bijeenkomst van De Broekriem toen hij nog werkzoekende was. Een prettige werkplek en toen nog kosteloze lunch waren een schot in de roos. Jurjen kwam wel eens bij S2M030, maar toen hij uit loondienst ging werd dit een plek om mensen te ontmoeten en gave dingen te ontdekken.

S2M staat voor ons vooral voor ontmoeten, de ‘meet’ in Seats2meet.

We hebben elkaar ontmoet tijdens een Poets en Proost in S2M030. We raakten aan de praat en dat klikte. We zijn toen vaker gaan proosten (zonder te poetsen). De ongedwongen sfeer bij S2M maakt het eenvoudig om mensen te ontmoeten.

S2M zorgt voor kruisbestuiving.

S2M030 is natuurlijk de plek waar het eerste PFLab is ontstaan. Door samen met andere coworkers na te denken over de plek van het PFLAb zie je hoe dit letterlijk en figuurlijk steeds opnieuw vorm krijgt. PFLab en de S2M lounge zitten op dit moment midden in een verbouwing. De technologie zal nu vanuit de lounge gedeeld gaan worden. Door betere zichtbaarheid hopen we dat mensen getriggerd worden. Dat je naast het ontmoeten van mensen ook met technologie kan ‘meeten’.

We zijn benieuwd wat deze nieuwe setting gaat opleveren.

Serendipiteit heeft een hele grote rol gespeeld bij het succes van het PFLAb. Tijdens een TechTuesday bespraken we een technisch probleem dat wij niet zelf konden oplossen. Iemand raadde ons aan om dit via Croqqer te regelen. Zo hebben wij Rene ontmoet. Rene heeft inmiddels een PFLab in Apeldoorn opgezet.

PFLAb zit dus in Utrecht en Apeldoorn maar ook op andere plekken zoals Den Haag, Eindhoven, (bijna in) Rotterdam en een aantal bibliotheken.

Wees welkom!

 

 

 

 

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The New York Times is looking for someone to travel to 52 countries in a year

Opportunity via The New York Times

Every year, The New York Times recommends 52 Places to Go, one place to dream about exploring each week. The list is an ambitious forecast of which beaches will remain unspoiled, which starchitect-designed museums will live up to their renderings and which culinary treasures are worth hopping a flight to eat.

This year, we want at least one ambitious traveler to turn our wish list into an itinerary.

We are seeking a correspondent who will go to every destination on our list and tell us the story of each place and the story of life on the road. The ideal candidate is a permanent student of life and astute documentarian of the world. This person should have a well-worn passport, the ability to parachute into a place and distill its essence and to render a compelling tale with words and images.

Media experience is required, as is fluency in English, expertise in social media and facility with digital devices. Familiarity with languages beyond English is a plus though not a requirement.

Qualifications
Has traveled to several destinations.Have documented travel in writing, social media or elsewhere.Is active on social media.Has prior experience at a magazine, publishing company, newspaper, digital publication, film or other media organization.Can commit to a full year.



 Click here to apply

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Augmented Reality for Screen-hating Hippies

The first time I truly experienced the power of augmented reality was when I moved to a new city — and decided to become a pokémon trainer, of course.

(Fellow hippies, please don’t leave yet! We will get to the part where we don’t talk about videogames and screens, I promise. Just stick with me, will ‘ya.)

One of the features in this game — besides the fact that you encountered different creatures exploring your actual physical town (wow, cool)— was that to recharge yourself, you had to go to an “interest spot” in real life. What were those? Well..

The company behind the game gave players the agency to choose what was interesting.

So… a cool graffiti? Sure!

A hospital? Yeah!

The Eiffel Tower? Of course!

And I was lucky enough to have one of those “interest spots” right in front of my building. I could recharge at any time! One day I decided to check what non-digital thing was bestowing me such unfair advantage.

This is what I found:

ouch — those are called “Stolpersteine” or stumbling stones

I had lived in this place for almost 2 months — and it was a pokémon game that pointed me to the fact that 4 people who used to live here died in Auschwitz.

Suddenly, it was not history, it was close — it was literally home. I started paying attention to small ground signs like those. They are all over Berlin. A lot of people died and the city was paying a beautiful tribute to all of them.

I realised my reality had been far more augmented by those steel squares than by the game.

good art always hits home
Drawing inspiration from games (a hippie-friendly explanation)

The beauty behind PokémonGo was that it combined different breakthroughs in technology into a single product. It was the brilliant Google Maps easy-to-use location technology plus the addictive digital collector-frenzy of the Pokémon series — all applied to the real world via augmented reality. Splendid!

Since then I’ve been thinking what other breakthroughs I could use as augmented reality tools.

Then it struck me: Dark Souls.

Dark Souls is a popular game about exploring a vicious world and dying a lot. Really: a lot. In fact, the game is so hard that it created a very unique and tight community around it — it’s almost as if everyone has a shared Stockholm syndrome to really bond with.

But of course the developers want you to finish the game, so they created this mechanic: floor messages. Not so different from the ones I found right in front of my building.

The idea is: any player can leave a tip to others like “trap ahead” or “use fire weapon ahead” and other players can rate it useful or useless. A little piece of humanity in a grim grim world.

People trying to help people… even… here?

if you look carefully, there’s a message right in front of the chest…
The (New) Age of Revolutions

We’re living an age packed with so many breakthroughs that it’s hard to pinpoint my favourite ones. Still, I’ve been touched by the God of Collaboration — and I can see some revolutions are actually different from what people think. Allow me to explain:

I really believe that the creation of the first DLSR camera — the Nikon D1 — changed the world. It shaped the digital camera market and in a way helped shaping contemporary photography. I can say the same about many tech strokes of genius.

But now let’s think AirBnb, Reddit, Tripadvisor. Their softwares are not groundbreaking (heck, they’re not even complicated) — their revolution had a different colour. These companies (and people, let’s never forget companies are made of humans) are navigating a revolution that talks about trust, about people trying to help, about individuals taking their time to create a better environment for people they don’t know.

So while the Silicon Valley’s morning glory is the applications of the Nikon D1s to the everyday life (much like PokémonGo), I’ve already realised that the stumbling stones are far more powerful. But they’re narrow in purpose — unlike Dark Souls’ floor messages.

Now… how can we combine the usefulness of the Dark Souls’ floor message with the tactile humanity of the stumble stone?

“please, social revolution” / “you first, tech revolution. I insist”
Post-it augmented reality: the challenge

Ok hippies, here we are! The apotheosis!

I hope the war-related stories and mentions to trust in mankind were enough to keep you around. It’s time to augment reality HIPPIE STYLE. But how?

Well, you don’t need the latest now-CIA-knows-your-face iphone to enjoy the omnipotence of post-its. Oh little bright coloured fairies, light our path to knowledge!

What I’m going to propose here is a low-tech augmented reality experience. It will require nothing but post-its — and your own will to make this world better.

The rules are simple: carry a bunch of post-its in your bag / backpack / ritualistic post-it pouch. Every time you’re faced with a situation in which you think you can help others live a better life, add a note.

Imagine the implications! In the supermarket:

“Last time my cat ate this, he puked a lot”

“I know this soap is cheaper, but it’s actually better than the premium”

“The n.04 cashier was kinda blue the other day, please give her a big smile”

In the office:

“Free cake on the 6th floor”

“Harvey’s birthday is next week, he really likes oldschool comics”

“I’m starting kung fu classes next week! Anybody wanna join?”

On the street:

“Caution! Pidgeon poop area!”

“I really love this kebab, really friendly staff”

“I’m a magical post-it note and I’m enchanting you with infinite energy!”

In the end, what we need is not a new app or tech; what we really need is something that will brighten our days, make our lives easier and happier. You can, but you don’t need to think about the kaleidoscopic digital environments to embark on the latest technology revolutions — many of them are social technologies.

Just add a post-it line to your own human-behaviour script.

It will scale.

I put this up 20 minutes ago and I already heard 2 giggles

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Let’s talk about the professions making a comeback and here to stay

Everyone is talking how AI is going to take a lot of jobs. Yes, it is possible. I won’t deny that. But cool part of it is that we have free time to have other jobs. Cooler jobs! In the midst of an ongoing crisis that is in place since 2008 for oh, so many factors, a lot of people started getting creative! You can call them hipsters, but there are a lot of people bringing back almost extinct professions. How are they doing it? By giving it a human touch of pure creativity and humanity. Here are some of them.

Lettering artists

The reason I am writing this blog is that I discovered an interest in lettering. And now there are a lot of people who are solely living by creating letterings for brands, painting signs, giving lettering workshops or even posting their art on Instagram.

Back in the days, artists would be paid to paint a sign in a warehouse or on top of a local shop. With the invention of computer graphics and printing, this profession was gone. But not anymore. If you walk into any hype and happening store, you are going to see a hand-painted sign, menu or quote. In 2016 a group of diverse professional quit their day job to fund Amsterdam Signpainters. They give workshops and now live solely by hand-painting beautiful lettering all over the Dutch city.

Photo by Yannick Allen-Larochelle on Unsplash
Barbers

Men, rejoice! That’s a pretty cool one. I do like the process of pampering myself, and I assume that barber shops are the place where men can go to be pampered, right? I mean, speaking in a heteronormative way.

Anyway, Gilette killed the barbers, and now they back! Cooler than ever. Barbers learned something from Starbucks and invested a lot in creating a whole experience out of grooming. At the new barber shops, you can eat, drink a beer and even stay for a party later on. In Cut Throat in Amsterdam, they host several events beyond serving drinks, food and of course, grooming!

And if you think this is a temporary trend, know that barbering is the fastest-growing profession in the US according to Forbes. And it is estimated to reach a market of 26 billion dollars by 2020. So get your razors and trim for your lives! Ok, a bit dramatic here.

Clothing repair

In the last decades, fast fashion came. And with its ridiculously low prices. From then on nobody cared anymore about repairing clothes. You just buy new ones! And that’s what we are still doing, but less and less. As themes as circular economy and sustainability gain more ground, more people are conscious of consumerism and are rethinking before throwing something away and buying something new.

Clothing repair was one of the few businesses to grow in 2008, and in 2014 the trend gained more visibility. Actually, beyond tech, this is one of the other markets that has been increasing, and there are not enough qualified people. Now, in every hipster street, you walk, you will see a tiny store where you can repair all your clothes. I know it because I live next to one! In conclusion, why code when you can sew?

Artisans

An artisan is a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand. If you think about it, actually all the other three professions that I listed are already artisans. But now I want to talk more broadly. And to do that, I would like to address the creation of etsy.com. Etsy is an online platform for artisans. It was created in 2005, and its first community was a group of anti-consumerists on the rise. They were becoming influential, and Etsy was the perfect and only online platform for them.

Later they became even better by integrating the website with social media and empowering the seller, giving them a better fee than eBay and more tools to engage with their customers. That allowed that crafter around the world turned their hobbies into their businesses. And that is extremely powerful. In 2014 the average gain of a seller on Etsy per year as 13K dollars. And that’s the average.

The platform, reunited with crafters themselves, created a whole movement that is getting bigger every year. And on the platform, you can find everything from clothes to furniture to books. The growth of the platform also shows a tendency of people preferring to buy handmade items. And that’s only on Etsy. Outside the platform, there is a whole world of people creating homemade products and selling them in their own webshops. Or even supermarkets, where you can find more craft beers and other handmade products than ever!

*If you want to know more about Etsy and the craftsmanship movement you can read their Growth Hackers case here.

Yep, they are all hipsters!

You may despise the bearded hipsters with their suspenders and bow ties. But what started with them is going mainstream. And that’s great! All those jobs and comebacks are fulfilling a hole in the economy and bringing dignity to some jobs that were looked down before. More than that, it is bringing passion back to earning a living. With the artisan’s case, the sellers on Etsy create products out of what they love and used to be their hobbies. I would also like to bring attention to the fact that as a lot of people talk about which markets millennials are killing, those are the markets that millennials are creating. And that’s where you should keep an eye on!

P.S.: If you don’t like any of those professions and you would like to stick with tech, you can read my article on Machine Learning for dummies or API 101. Cheers!

DeBroekriem is looking for a Junior Project Coordinator

Opportunity via deBroekriem

DeBroekriem is een landelijk activiteitenplatform voor werkzoekenden en afgelopen jaar zijn we uitgeroepen tot de beste vrijwilligersorganisatie van Nederland! Bij ons staan enthousiasme, dynamiek en ambitie centraal. We hebben een kernteam van 4 personen en een groep van 80 vrijwilligers waarmee we jaarlijks 750 sollicitatietrainingen organiseren voor onze community met ruim 8000 in-between-jobbers. Dat zijn flinke aantallen en daarom hebben wij een ondersteunende functie vacant. Wij maken gave dingen mee en willen dat graag met een nieuwe collega delen!

Werkzaamheden?

DeBroekriem biedt een afwisselende functie waarin jij een belangrijke bijdrage levert in het bereiken van onze maatschappelijke doelstellingen. De belangrijkste taken zijn:

Telefonische intakegesprek en screening nieuwe eventmanagers/vrijwilligers;
Registreren van nieuwe- en uitstromende eventmanagers;
Beheren helpdesk;
Plannen en coördineren e-learnings;
Meehelpen in de voorbereiding en uitvoering van landelijke events;
Uitdragen visie; werkzoekenden informeren op beurzen;
Diverse administratieve werkzaamheden;

Wat vragen wij? Een ondersteunende doener in ons team. Jij bent sociaal, je kan je goed inleven in onze doelgroep en vindt het leuk om bij een maatschappelijke start-up te werken. Je bent bereid om hard mee te werken en zelf mee te groeien met het succes van DeBroekriem.

Je hebt een HBO opleiding afgerond (HR, Eventmangement);
Je bent nauwkeurig en kan structuur behouden in een zeer dynamische werkomgeving;
Je bent enthousiast en motiverend;
Je bent communicatief vaardig;
Je woont in de buurt van Utrecht;

Wat bieden wij?

– Ongelooflijk enthousiaste collega’s;

– Onkostenvergoeding, laptop;

– 24 vakantiedagen per jaar;

– Je start met een 7-maanden contract en een bruto maandsalaris van € 2.150,-

– De mogelijkheid om iets voor mensen te kunnen betekenen – er is niks zo dankbaar dan mensen nieuwe kansen bieden.

Waar? Stichting DeBroekriem is gevestigd op Hoog Catharijne in Utrecht met een prachtig uitzicht over de binnenstad van Utrecht. We delen ons kantoor met drie andere organisaties die net als wij geloven in de kracht van communities.

Interesse? Wil je ons team versterken? Ben je 36 uur per week beschikbaar? Reageer op deze vacature per mail met daarin je LinkedIn-profiel, cv en motivatie: annemieke@debroekriem.nl. Cv’s worden op volgorde van binnenkomst behandeld en de uiterste datum is 3 november.

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