Society 3.0 Citizens Share Their Experiences

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Meet Cees Hoogendijk, editor of the Dutch Society30 book and a true Society30 ambassador, shares his Seats2meet.com experience in the new Seats2meet.com magazine:

“It was way back in 2008 when I first entered a Seats2meet location. It was by coincidence, because my publisher considered it a wise idea to book a meeting room at S2M Utrecht, for the presentation of my book ‘Kracht zonder Macht’ (‘Power without Force?’). Seats2meet was a Wow experience. We didn’t get just a beautiful meeting room and additional services; the package included also a website, enabling all my attendants to become a digital community around the book. This site still exists (www.krachtzondermacht.nl). Nowadays, you’ll find state of art Seats2meet booking and event sites.

Since then, I’ve had a lot of Wow-moments in co-creating with the Seats2meet organization. Being a Society 3.0 ‘know mad’, building several ‘social enterprises’, you can find me often in one of the Dutch S2M locations. And being there brings me always a step further…

Why is that? I’m self employed, married, raising six children and bringing down a serious mortgage on our house. I should be somewhere at work, shouldn’t I? At the same time, I fully adopted ‘asynchronous reciprocity’ as my personal ‘marketing strategy’: sharing new ideas, helping people and companies upfront, giving speeches for free, networking around my personal mission ‘humanization  of organization’, publishing books on my own account and blogging about the ones I read, and meeting as many new people as I can… This may all seem a bit naïve or even weird. But you can also consider this ‘work’.  And at the end of the day – or let me say at the end of the year – somehow, based on this ‘non-marketing approach of mine, nice projects and new clients found their way to me and to my social-co-entrepreneurs. Together we live a constructive professional life, adding value to the society, to ourselves and to our beloved ones, and it goes with a lot of sense. It is quite pleasurable to ‘work’ like this, in Society 3.0.”

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