Plop up
29-3-2012
No pop-up, but a Plop-Up wine bar, which opens this Sunday. No drivel about wine, but just let owners Cees Honig and Niels Heystek tell you what they think of a specific wine. Curious? Watch the Facebook-page where they reveal the location of this new wine bar.
Vote bar music with BarTune app
16-3-2012
With the BarTune app, guests can choose the music they want to hear. To do this go to one of the participating bars, login and pick their favourite song from the available tracklist.
Become a fan and choose your favorite burger
15-3-2012
To create a social media fanclub, Café Causette of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel (Hong Kong) launches the mini-hamburger-campaign. Guests can vote for their favorite burger, and the winning burger deserves to be on the menu. Before guests can vote, they do have to become a member of their Facebook-page.
Give twitter back to the birds
14-3-2012
A good example of a simple video that is a hit on the internet. Watch how Latvia (magazine) gives Twitter back tot the birds.
Foie Gras Hot Dog
13-3-2012
A nice example of twitter for restaurants. Ryan Sutton, the NYC food critic for Bloomberg news, posted a photo from a small part of the menu of restaurant The Dutch in NY. As far as we could find The Dutch aren’t present on twitter so perhaps they find out that their dish, foie gras hot dog, is used as inspiration via Horecatrends ;-).
McDonald’s Paris interactive cube
5-3-2012
McDonalds placed a 5 meter high cube in the centre of Paris. People could shoot and upload pictures, with the funny result that people saw their heads on different bodies. Watch the video!
Dominos and social media
28-2-2012
Domino’s uses social media in an attractive and integrated way. When someone is tweeting something about dinner, Domino’s is using this for their marketing. Watch the movie.
Booking a trip through Facebook
22-2-2012
GoFun is the first travel organisaton of the Netherlands that makes it possible for young people to book their travel through Facebook. GoFun provides advice and special vacation and entertainment offers. GoFun is a popular organisation among young people and known for the many pub crawls and party holidays they organise.
Thumbs up of chocolate
23-1-2012
The chocolate brand Cadbury made an enormous Thumbs up of chocolate, because they received 1 million likes on their facebook page. Watch the movie for the building process.
Share a Bite network dinner
9-1-2012
Since November two young entrepreneurs are organizing dinners for young professionals and other entrepreneurs that want to combine a proper dinner with networking. Through the website shareabite.com it’s easy to check who the other table guests are thanks to an integration of Facebook and LinkedIn.