Comments on: Changing Jobs

By: Spaga in blogosfera at BloGhidul Presei

Spaga in blogosfera at BloGhidul Presei — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:40:23 +0000

[...] Din cate stiu eu acestia se numesc evanghelisti…si cunosc si eu cativa…si poate si tu…unul nou dintre ei e chiar Coolz0r care a devenit si el evanghelist la Microsoft. [...]

By: Jeff Sandquist - Microsoft Evangelist - Welcome to Miel Van Opstal to Microsoft

Jeff Sandquist - Microsoft Evangelist - Welcome to Miel Van Opstal to Microsoft — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:51:40 +0000

[...] by: newtelligence dasBlog 1.8.5223.1 Sign In Friday, 22 December 2006 Welcome to Miel Van Opstal to Microsoft Ok, this didn’t get as much press Jon Udell joining my team, but is just as exciting. MielVan Opstal who authors the popular Marketing Thoughts blog will be joining our group as an Evangelist. As part of this he’ll be producing content for Channel 10 Ok, since the word is out, I might as well write about it too. Yes, I’m switching jobs. At the moment I’m in my last week at i-merge, the brandbreeding agency. I’m currently still in the strategic team, but as of December 11th, I’ll be joining a few friends over at Microsoft. I’m going to be an Enthusiast Evangelist for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region and I’ll be listening to (and speaking with) the influential end users, the blogosphere and perhaps some online media. Nathan Weinberg picked it up today on Inside Microsoft: Congratulations are in order to Miel Van Opstal, who has helped out with blogging here when things were tough, and has built a popular marketing blog, “Marketing Thought”, at blog.coolz0r.com, as he starts his great new job at Microsoft! Miel will be joining MS as an Enthusiast Evangelist for the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions, talking to users, bloggers and the media about some of the great things going on at Microsoft. While no company is perfect, and Microsoft was a pretty rough place in the late 90s, Microsoft today is creating some amazing products that the market and the community aren’t noticing. While Google is well-loved and gets a flood of coverage on any product release, Microsoft has built some amazing things that, if they aren’t called Xbox, don’t get the notice they deserve. The fact that Windows Live Local isn’t getting the love Google Maps get is the biggest crime on the internet, and I’m glad Miel has joined up to help out. Microsoft needs passionate people to get the word out, because their best stuff is completely misunderstood and under-represented. I can’t wait to see what cool stuff Miel starts doing. Maybe he’ll even show up here to let us know. Lots of exciting new folks will be joining our group across the planet over the next few months, watch for more fun announcements soon! Welcome aboard Miles! technorati tags: 10, evangelism+network, Miel+Van+Opstal 12/22/2006 19:51:33 (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00) Comments [0] [...]

By: Microsoft Academy Marketing or Technical Programme? » Darren Straight’s Blog

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:26:43 +0000

[...] However saying that, the Marketing Programme catches my eye again because it’s probably the most likely path to lead me to be a Enthusiast Evangelist which is pretty much what I want to do as I get to tell everybody about Microsoft and what they are doing. Thanks goes to Miel for the information on it, as that’s what he’s currently doing. [...]

By: JohanDK

JohanDK — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:37:01 +0000

Entering the danger M$ zone…
nee serieus..
Good move, leuke uitdaging en een interessante positie om mooi dingen te realiseren & sharen.

Ciao
Johan

By: JP

JP — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:59:06 +0000

Good luck. The world is small. So, you’ll be around. JP

By: Hans Mestrum

Hans Mestrum — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:55:13 +0000

Ha Miel, ik was toch nog een uurtje eerder met mijn bericht ;-)
Manneke het ga je goed!

By: Kristof Van Holder

Kristof Van Holder — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:42:26 +0000

Congratz! I’m convinced ‘evangelist’ will be an understatement for you!

Keep on bloggin’!

By: Nedra Weinreich

Nedra Weinreich — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:38:02 +0000

Congratulations on the new job! Sounds exciting! I hope you’ll continue to be able to keep this blog going since it’s one of my must-reads. Love your new title!

By: Randy Charles Morin

Randy Charles Morin — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:44:32 +0000

Congrats! The new Microsoft evangelist blogger. Finally, a replacement for Scoble ;-)

By: Verhuizen. at Pietel.be

Verhuizen. at Pietel.be — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:37:08 +0000

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By: Marketing.Interactive » Blog Archive » i-Merge brons op Eurobest Interactive

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:51:15 +0000

[...] i-Merge hamstert dit jaar prijzen voor de winter: na het kersverse brons op de Epica Awards wint het interactief bureau uit Leuven opnieuw brons met dezelfde Hamstercam camapgne op de Eurobest Awards. België had in totaal 7 projecten op de Interactive shortlist (.pdf) staan. De online websites en campagnes Sprite 3G, Nokia Concept Lounge en Helping Hands, Prepare your Hair van Opel, en bannercampagnes voor De Post en Eurostar geraakten niet op het podium. Minder goed nieuws voor het bureau is dat Miel Van Opstal reeds na enkele maanden stage en strategisch werk i-Merge verlaat en inruilt voor een job bij Microsoft. [...]

By: Serge

Serge — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:46:51 +0000

Even without having met in RL, I feel like the least I could do is congratulate you on the move up the career ladder (having read this blog for some time now and even stolen some content from it -with the approproitre reference, of course :-) ). From what I have heard from Tom, you undoubtedly have it in you to make it at Microsoft. And now I can only hope the Coolzûr-Marketing Thoughts blog stays alive and kicking as it has been for so long now. Don’t let Bill take up all of your time! :-)

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links for 2006-12-07 | blog.forret.com — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:18:58 +0000

[...] » Changing Jobs – Coolz0r – Marketing Thoughts as of December 11th, I’ll be joining a few friends over at Microsoft. I’m going to be an Enthusiast Evangelist for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region and I’ll be listening to (and speaking with) the influential end users, the blogosphe (tags: coolz0r imerge microsoft evangelist mielvanopstal career) [...]

By: Ed Kohler

Ed Kohler — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:00:53 +0000

Congrats on the new job. We may have interviewed a few of your future teammates during the GNoTE conference this past Monday. Lots of ’softies were in the house.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:17:03 +0000

Great news Miel.Do you know what products you will be evangelising? :)

By: Tom Mertens

Tom Mertens — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:39:25 +0000

It’s great to have you in the DPE group at Microsoft EMEA! Congrats…

By: Robbert

Robbert — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:25:55 +0000

Congrats m8!
Wish you all the best with in the new episode of your carreer!
And keep us updated about it hehe!

PS: Keep on going with Marketing Thoughts, it just rocks!

By: Tanguy De Kelver

Tanguy De Kelver — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:12:33 +0000

Hallelujah! Congrats man! Same as Pietel, whenever u want for some preachin at McCann…

Tanguy

By: Coolz0r

Coolz0r — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:33:18 +0000

Thanks everybody… it’s really cool to have such a positive reply on this decision. I really appreciate it!

Nate, Marketing Thoughts will remain my outlet for advertising and marketing rants, I’ll keep it running and next to it, I’ll have a blog related to the things I’ll be doing for Microsoft. I’ve been blogging about Microsoft here before, and most likely I’ll refer to some things every now and then if they have the right context to fit in, but it’s not my intention to change the purpose of this blog. Just so you know.

Cheers, everyone !

By: Pietel

Pietel — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:20:30 +0000

Bij-merge halen ze de verhuis aan als reden voor je vertrek. Door de lage plafonds geraakte je ego niet meer binnen. :) (says TDB)

Neen, genoeg gezeverd. Een oprechte proficiat. Vraag een MacBook Pro aan je nieuwe werkgever, draai er windows op en bezoek ons at DGE voor een kleine evangelisatie.