Tag: News
A Case for Pessimism
PublishedOptimism can be healthy. But assuming the worst is over also means you won’t be prepared. In 2006, a tornado struck the town of Parkersburg, Iowa. The devastation wreaked by the category F2 twister was sizable: The 150 mph winds left a path of destruction four and a half miles long and a third of a mile across.… Continue reading A Case for Pessimism
Love never ends
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How 1 Billion People Are Coping With Death and Facebook
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“I think I’m going to go online,” said Cheryl, logging in to Facebook from her hospital bed. She soon reconsidered, however. “I don’t know what to write: ‘Hey I almost died last night. What’s up with you guys?’” Months later, Cheryl died from Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Her partner Kelli Dunham still cherishes funny memories like this… Continue reading How 1 Billion People Are Coping With Death and Facebook
How we communicate death and illness with social media
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The way we communicate about serious illness and death in our private lives has been utterly transformed by social media. Using Facebook, text and even Twitter, as well as reliable old email, we take our most urgent and affecting news and send it on its digital way, barely stopping to absorb its deep impact on… Continue reading How we communicate death and illness with social media
Introducing New Respectance
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The digital afterlife goes social and so does Respectance! With the launch of the new Facebook application Respectance integrates their existing community with social network Facebook. On Respectance, users can instantly create a personalized Tribute for someone who passed away or has been missed for many years already. Family and friends come together on Respectance… Continue reading Introducing New Respectance
Nu.nl Interview
PublishedCategorized as Richard Derks
Yeah!! we got an interview for nu.nl, the biggest news site of Holland. So proud that we’re officially out. I selected the venue, hope you get it http://www.nuzakelijk.nl/20080829/nuzakelijk-video/respectance-levendige-community-voor-doden
Mourning: the good, the bad and the ugly
PublishedCategorized as Richard Derks
Today an agent got shot in a village next to Amsterdam. It was a big shock to all people with their hearts at the right place. I watched what happened. The main newspaper in the Netherlands, Telegraaf, wrote an article about this on the front page online. This newspaper is far ahead others, they allow their… Continue reading Mourning: the good, the bad and the ugly
#RIP Heath Ledger
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We could not believe the news that Heath Ledger is no longer with us. You always think that you see things coming. There are some artists that are really nominated to cross the line. But we were all shocked that Heath Ledger is no longer with us. We hope that the fans will find their… Continue reading #RIP Heath Ledger
Better.tv
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Respectance is getting quite some press. Since we found that a lot of our users are women between 25 and 50 we got invited by better.tv. This is a show broadcasted in eleven million households in the States. Rather big. They made a special about why and how women can profit from social networking. Ranny is… Continue reading Better.tv