Time for Action Print

TIME for action the Drag Anchor carrier Janny thought (please see elsewhere on this site for further explanation). That is why she supports the idea of making the statue in dedication of the Unknown Docker reality. The idea of materializing the statue Unknown Docker - made by Sandy Warnaar - is supported by Chief Marketing Officer Mai Elmar and other bigwigs in Rotterdam. The scheme as to how is still under discussion.

Another initial successful venture was promoting to get the outside of Cruise Terminal Rotterdam prettier, the way the parking lot is enclosed in particular. Potted plants alongside the parking lot and elsewhere at the Wilhelminapier area, have done a world of good, before they were neglected after the TMF event. Male party goers must have mistaken the potted plants for public conveniences. The municipal department  OBR did not seem to care about the state of the plants afterwards. Janny promises to continue being aware that the flowery decoration will return to its former healthy state at the pier in Spring

Janny has embarked another project in her own home suburb Vreewijk; the oldest but one Welwyn Garden City look-alike in the Netherlands. Entrepreneurs and the organisation of inhabitants of this specific Rotterdam area prepare can look back upon a successful cultural manifestation Midwinterr in the centre of Vreewijk. Janny contributed to a special newspaper on the event. 

THERE s a new IT doctor in the house: ICT United's Roderick Guépin. Here he is  the Man@Work Guépin used to cooperate with good old IT Doctor Mike Vuyk, who unfortunately had to step down.  

On the positive side is that Mike is still in the background, keeping abreast of the latest developments within and outside ICT United. Please find out yourself at http://www.ictunited.nl

As 2010 goes on the New year's wish conveyed early this year is still valid:

Cooperation and effective communication have to work wonders against the crises. Could not we use these tools to fight hard-heartedness of society? A laugh and a friendly gesture make the world a better place!

 

 

 THERE is more than meets the eye in the oldest but one garden city in the Netherlands. Please go to the logo of Entrepreneurial Vreewijk (Ondernemend Vreewijk) to find out.  Next on the agenda is Mid Summer festival and more to improve business and life at the green district of Rotterdam.

 

HAPPY memories about a super 60st birthday party at Maritime Hotel in Rotterdam, thanks to all nice friends and party lovers who came to the party. Here is Janny in the act of a performer, together with the real one: Jos Valster. Also depicted a much earlier performance together with the real entertainer Lee Towers and Port of Rotterdam crooner Hans Magito. Thanks to IT doctor Roderick more pics are put for show on this website. Please go to Janny's Photos

 

 Janny was sent this picture (left) by fellow WISTA members who spotted the Rotterdam-based party goer in London at the Medieval Banquet. And yes, it was all fun and laughter at the so-called Court of Henry the Eight.

All WISTA members look forward to the WISTA conference which will be held in Athens later this year.

 

 

 

 

 

The LinkedIn group Rotterdam My City has drawn the attention to

 http://www.wallpaper.com/video/travel/city-short-rotterdam/61582773001 

Surprise, surprise: you can find Janny and follow her on Twitter! Much earlier she joined Facebook and LinkedIn

         Please click on the bird to find out where it goes to. That and more tweets of woman and bird can be found on the virtual networks Janny participates.

 
Janny ready to co-host conferences Print

Janny is ready to get more assignments for co-hosting conferences. In this pic she is in action at a seminar about sharing valuable information for the benefit of the port community. Recently she co-hosted what was called LijstDuwers Debate, prior to the day members of municipal councils had to be elected.

Janny will do the trick again at Havencongres 2010 in Rotterdam on 15th April in the act of roving reporter. Please click on www.havencongres.nl for further information.

Visitors of www.jannykok.nl as stated by Motigo on 22/03/2009:

1.Nederland6.69280,7 %
2.Verenigd Koninkrijk2783,4 %
3.Verenigde Staten1632,0 %
4.België1321,6 %
5.Noorwegen1041,3 %
6.VS Commercieel931,1 %
7.Netwerk730,9 %
8.Duitsland550,7 %
9.Frankrijk470,6 %
10.Zuid-Afrika350,4 %
 De rest6237,5 %
 Totaal8.295100,0 %

 
Maasvlakte 2 Print

Maasvlakte 2

MAASVLAKTE 2 becomes more and more in shape, since Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands has launched the names of the future docks at the port land reclamation. The construction of 1,000 hectares of additional docks and terminals started ion a sunny, but windy day early September 2008 with what is called 'the first plunge' (of sand) for Maasvlakte 2, after 15 years of discussion and legal procedures.    

Janny's husband Jaap was present to take pictures of the event and to share the 'civil engeneer feeling' with bigwigs of the port community, reporters includes

 

    

 ALSO in orange: the delegation of Women's International Shipping & Trading Association. Spot the looney JK. Please go to http://www.wistaconference.org or to http://www.wista.net to learn more

 
Rotterdam's heritage Print

protecting treesvreewijk explainedRotterdam's heritage - Vreewijk the oldest but one garden 'city' in the Netherlands - should be cherished. As it happens, the managing housing corporation is inclined to give demolition of terraced houses on promising profitable ground priority. Its target is seemingly new building high-rise. The management should lend a willing ear to all those who take the interest of heritage at heart, and what founders of Vreewijk stated in the past.

Architect Grandpré Molière is one of them. His statement about Vreewijk can be found on a plaque. It says (in Dutch): The value of the 1st Rotterdam garden village is not in what has been built, but in what has been ventured, persevered and defied!

Inhabitants of Vreewijk are well aware of that. They keep on campaigning to preserve the typical Garden City features. The photographs taken recently are proof of that.

Please go to www.wistaconference.org/2009video.wmv when you feel like it and have the time for a 14 minutes lasting documentary film and see for further new developments in Janny's journalistic practice at What's New (please click on the underlined What's New or the similar button on the menu)