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Value of my LinkedIn Contacts : 743.294.198.978 Euro

Erik van Berkum — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:31:06 +0000

Today I calculated the value of my Linkedin network, it’s a lot of money.

Personal Branding Every Day more important

Erik van Berkum — Sun, 15 May 2011 04:58:01 +0000

Personal branding, by definition, is the process by which we market ourselves to others. As a brand, we can leverage the same strategies that make celebrities or corporate brands appeal to others. We can build brand equity just like them. To built my own personal brand my wife created an avatar for me.

Below two examples how I look comments please!!!!!

The Erik van Berkum Daily

Erik van Berkum — Fri, 13 May 2011 21:17:50 +0000

Just started my own newspaper the Erik van Berkum Daily.
Dialy updates of my interests.

Have a look or start your own:

El Concepto de Panels de Control

Erik van Berkum — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:00:58 +0000

Un invernadero tiene muchas cajas de control e interruptores.

Panels son menos costoso y mas fácil instalación
La combinación de los requisitos de los controles eléctricos y los cortacircuitos en unos pocos paneles fácil de instalar, simplifica la instalación complete y ahorrar dinero en todo el proyecto.

Estos paneles personalizados contienen y combinan todos los puntos de datos Hoogendoorn, los módulos de interfaz los arrancadores de motor y tambien los paneles de cortacircuitos norteamericanos.

Los puntos de datos son el hardware de la computadora, tambien conocidos como los módulos o terminales de entrada y salida.

Quitar de su instalación

What you can take out to make it simple

Ahorra dinero

Módulos de interfase han sido agregados para vincular el hardware de la computadora con los circuitos de controles eléctricos.

Reveladores de control de alto voltaje han sido agregados para vincular los módulos de interfaz a los circuitos eléctricos de control de alto voltaje.

Arrancadores de moteres han sido agregados para encender y proteger los circuitos de suministro del motor.

El resultado final …..

Panel eléctrico de combinación Panel

Final Scheme

Sé prudente invertir en paneles eléctricos de combinación para el largo plazo

Gracias Al van den Ende Ispecs

Also available in English

A vision of students today, I wish we were able to tell the world 25 years ago

Erik van Berkum — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:19:19 +0000

It’s almost 2 years ago that this video was uploaded on YouTube by Michael Wesch but reading the book Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World
inspired me to blog about it. It amazed me that nothing has been changed since I left school same issues different teachers different students. The good thing for this generation is they have the internet so probably with their statement new ways of eduction become viable were internet and technology will become an important factor.

First a comment from Don Tapscott while he was interviewed at authors@google. Here is what education is: I am a prof, I have knowledge you are a student an empty vessel and you don’t. Get ready here it comes. Your goal is take data into short term active memory and through practice and repetition built deeper cognitive structures so you can recall it to me when I test you. Another issue where Don Tapscott is absolutely right and what I can recall from my school time was the process of lecture in which notes of the teacher go to the notes of the student without going through the brain of either. When I went to university I started enjoying learning and I became a life time learner. Before University I thought: School is a hobby when you don’t have to work or are not occupied with other obligations such as sports or friends. I was further amazed that what you did at university in a month took you nearly a year at secondary school. So it’s absolute clear why so many students are bored, not challenged, not engaged and eventually dropout.

Watch the video it’s pretty fast so I wrote the full text for down for you.

If these walls could talk

What would they say

If students learn, What they do…..

What are they learning sitting here

On the blackboard: The information is up here

Follow along

Of course walls and desk cannot talk

But students can

200 students made 367 edits to this document

And surveyed themselves

to bring you the following message

My class size is 115

18% of my teachers know my name

I complete 49% of the readings assigned to me

Only 26% relevant to my life

I buy $100 text books I never open

My neighbor paid for class but never comes

I will read eight books this year,

2,300 Web pages, and 1281 Facebook profiles

I will write 42 pages for class this semester and over 500 pages of emails

I will get 7 hours of sleep each night

I spend 1.5 hours watching tv each night

I spend 3.5 hours a day online

I listen to music 2.5 hours a day

I spend ….. 2 hours on my cellphone

Spend 3 hours in class

2 hours eating

I work 2 hours everyday

3 hours studying

Thats a total of 26.5 hours a day

I am a multi-tasker I have to be

I will be 20,000 $ in debt after graduation

I am one of the lucky ones

Over 1 billion people make less than 1 $ a day

This laptop cost more than some people make in a year

When I graduate I probably will have a job that doesn’t exit today

Student shows multiple choice test form: Filling this out won’t get me there or deal with:

Students showing all together various important themes such as WAR, Ethnic conflict

I did not create the problems

But they are my problems

Some has suggested that technology can save us

I Facebook through most of my classes

I am bringing my laptop through class but I am not working on class stuff

The inventor of the system deserves to be ranked among the best contributors to learning and science, if not the greatest benefactors of mankind (Josiah F. Bumstead The year 1841)

One of the benefits of the chalkboard

Join the discussion

The part of 7,5 hours sleep doesn’t make a lot of sense in the beginning but as the other hours are showed by the students all adds up to 26.5 hours, so the average student is now a 2.5 hour multi-tasker per day. Don Tapscott calls multi-tasking also switching ability according to the study 3 out of 4 Net Gen Students are doing it. I can see this often on the work floor in the office some colleagues can only concentrate on one task while the younger more computer literate are doing more tasks at the same time. At the end of the day everyone has done his work and I don’t believe that there is any difference in quality or efficiency.

More info look at Michael Wesch and Kansas State University.

I learned from the book to better understand my children about how they need to be engaged to the school program to have fun. Also I learned from the book why I never liked school. So an absolute must read if your children aren’t liking school it enables you to prevent them from dropping out.

Read the book and buy it here

Greenhouse innovations and future production technics

Erik van Berkum — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:04:03 +0000

Over the last years you see a lot of new greenhouse models on the market which should enable us to produce sustainable food without using extensively natural resources. In the photos below you see some concept currently tested or in full production in the horticultural produce sector.

You have another concept, inform me I am more than happy to add them.

Solar Greenhouse

Sun Wind Greenhouse

Elkas Greenhouse

Seawater Greenhouse

Flowdeck Greenhouse

Sunenergy Greenhouse

Plant Factory

Village Farms Gates production Principles

Thanet Eart

Greenergy

World professional Greenhouse builders list

Erik van Berkum — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:04:11 +0000

I built a worldwide directory of professional Greenhouse builders. Professional means Greenhouse builders for commercial production. Below you find a list by country, I know there are many more. Do you have any suggestions please let me know I will be happy to add them. Please don’t post hobby greenhouse builders since I like to keep this list professional.

Australian Greenhouse builders, Australia

Faber Greenhouses

Canadian Greenhouse builders, Canada

Greenhouse builders in United States / US

Dutch Greenhouse builders, Holland, Netherlands

Japanese Greenhouse builders, Japan

English Greenhouse builders, United Kingdom England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Eire

New Zealand Greenhouse builders

Belgium Greenhouse buillders

French Greenhouse builders, France

German Greenhouse builders, Germany

Danish Greenhouse builders

Viemose-Driboga

Israeli Greenhouse builders

Chinese Greenhouse construction and design

Korean Greenhouse builders

Constructores de Invernaderos en España / Spanish Greenhouse builders Spain

Constructores de Invernaderos en México / Mexican Greenhouse builders Mexico

Hoogendoorn @ Canadian Greenhouse Conference

Erik van Berkum — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:39:23 +0000

Hoogendoorn America will be present at the Canadian Greenhouse Conference from October 8 – 9, 2008 at the International Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Over the last years the conference was attended by more than 2.200 visitors.

This year Hoogendoorn America will be a sponsor of the Canadian Greenhouse Conference. One of the key note speakers will be Dr. Patrick Moore, Chairman and chief scientist for Greenspirit and Co-founder and former member of Greenpeace.

Your greenhouse business is a busy place. Sometimes it’s hard to focus on any one thing for long. Even if it’s just one thing that could make all the difference for your business. The CGC offers you the freedom to find that one thing. The freedom to explore the latest technologies, to learn about cutting-edge resources available to you, the freedom to view the newest products and varieties at your leisure. Imagine the freedom to focus on helping your business flourish. Sound impossible?
That’s the ONE THING you’ll get at this year’s Canadian Greenhouse Conference. Just think. Over the course of 2 days, you can consult with true innovators in the industry, and network with all the fellow growers, distributors, educators and researchers that make this such a vibrant and exciting industry. And, of course, along with our lineup of excellent speakers, we are happy to welcome our keynote speaker, Patrick Moore, of Greenspirit, who is sure to inspire us all!

Another Speaker on the Greenhouse conference will be Hoogendoorn Economic client and user Mark Elzinga, from Elzinga & Hoeksema Greenhouses, Portage MI talking about Reducing your Greenhouse Footprint

Vineland Welcomes Hoogendoorn America

Erik van Berkum — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:16:09 +0000

VINELAND, Ontario, June 2008 – Vineland Research and Innovation Centre is pleased to welcome Hoogendoorn America Inc. as a new tenant of the Centre.

With over 40 years of expertise, Hoogendoorn has consistently been at the forefront of innovation in the development of new, environmental growth management technologies. It is renowned for being the most innovative automation expert in glasshouse horticulture, and exemplifies the ideal mix of man and machine to deliver climate control and environmental management for the horticulture industry. This has resulted in Hoogendoorn’s expansion into multinational markets including Europe, North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and North America.

“We are very excited about relocating our North American offices to the Vineland Centre because we are confident that the centre will become a world-class research institution and international hub for horticulture and floriculture research, innovation and commercial activity,” “said Erik van Berkum, General Manager of Hoogendoorn America Inc. “Vineland is all about facilitating innovation, and innovation has been, and continues to be, the key to Hoogendoorn’s success.”

Hoogendoorn has relocated to Vineland with a very aggressive mandate, and it will use its Vineland office as the base to launch all of its marketing and sales efforts for the North American, South American, Australian, New Zealand and Asian markets.

“Vineland is extremely pleased to welcome Hoogendoorn to the Centre,” said Jim Brandle, CEO of Vineland Research and Innovation Centre. “We look forward to facilitating collaborative research and working with Hoogendoorn as part of Vineland’s efforts to become a destination showcase for new greenhouse technologies for the North American market.”

About Vineland Research and Innovation Centre
Located in the Niagara Region, the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre is a not-for-profit corporation. As result of a government, academic and industry led initiative, Vineland is becoming world-class research institution and international hub for horticulture and ornamentals research, innovation and commercialization. Created in 1906 through a gift by M.F. Rittenhouse, the Vineland Research Station has contributed to the emergence of a competitive horticulture industry in one of Canada’s most unique geographic regions. It is accredited with the development and release of over 150 new varieties of fruits, vegetables and ornamental plants, as well as numerous production techniques and post-harvest technologies.

About Hoogendoorn America Inc.
Hoogendoorn is known as the most innovative supplier of process automation systems in the horticultural industry. With over 40 years of expertise, Hoogendoorn strives to provide the optimal greenhouse climate, increase crop yields, and assist in the management of costs and risks in glasshouse horticulture. All projects are assessed individually, regardless of their size. Innovation is Hoogendoorn’s prime focus, and it focuses on integrating the latest techniques and insights into growers’ professional management to simplify complex processes. Hoogendoorn calls that Growth Management, and it is at the heart of all of its services, people and products. Hoogendoorn America Inc. is a division of Hoogendoorn Growth Management and a member of the Hoogendoorn Group.

For more information, contact:
Bob Kalbfleisch
Vineland Research and Innovation Centre
Special Advisor, Policy and Communications
519-572-1112
Email Bob Kalbfleisch

Erik van Berkum
Hoogendoorn America Inc.
General Manager
905-562-0800

Hoogendoorn Growth Management America moving offices

Erik van Berkum — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:06:04 +0000

From Greenhouse Canada written by Dave Harrison

Hoogendoorn Growth Management is moving into new offices at the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, in the heart of Niagara’s greenhouse industry in Ontario.
“Hoogendoorn has chosen this location because of confidence that over the next years, the centre will become a world-class research institution and international hub for horticulture and floriculture research, innovation and commercial activity,” said general manager Erik van Berkum. “This is exactly the environment where Hoogendoorn wants to be. We need an active environment where we can test and further develop our greenhouse climate control equipment, our plant sensors and web services for online management and collaboration.”
For further information, contact Erik van Berkum at 289-668-3155, or national sales manager Pete Hendriksen at 289-407-6420.

The company’s website is www.hoogendoorn.ca, and the fax number is 905-688-7036.