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SENSE is a society for English-language professionals based in the Netherlands. We are a community of language workers who work from or into English, with a connection to the Netherlands.

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Read our regular blog

SENSE members and guest authors post meeting reports and interesting articles on the SENSE Blog. It also represents an opportunity to budding copywriters to get their name on screen.

Guidelines for student texts

SENSE has prepared its own "Guidelines for Proofreading Student Texts" and a "Form to Confirm Proofreading Services". Download them free of charge.

Best practices

The Dutch Convenant explains what freelance translators and translation agencies in the Netherlands typically consider good practice in their dealings with each other. Visit sense-online.nl/dutch-covenant.

Workshop: The Benefits of Blogging with Carola Janssen

‘The Benefits of Blogging’ – with Carola Janssen

‘What can I possibly contribute?’ That’s the most frequently asked question on the subject of blogging.

‘There’s already so much out there. It’s all been written already. Who’s interested in what I have to say?’

In this interactive workshop on blogging, Carola Janssen demonstrates why it’s still so important to make your voice heard online. She offers you tips and ideas for how to get started on blogging, what you can write about, how and where best to post your articles and not unimportantly – how to keep it up.

Date: Thursday, 13 February 2025
Time: 19:30 – 21:00, followed by Q&A
Location: Zoom (we’ll send you the link beforehand)
Cost: SENSE members pay just €25 (make sure you’re logged in first!)

Tickets for non-members are €40. Tickets for SENSE’s sister societies are €30 – please enter the discount code when you register for this event.

Please note: this meeting will not be recorded.


If you are a SENSE member, please log in before registering for this event.

About the speaker

Carola Janssen of Kiezel Communicatie is an experienced writing coach, mainly for corporate clients. She also came up with Prompt! Writing Inspiration, for which she organises a write-along twice a year (some SENSE members may have taken part in the English version translated by Lizzie). Three times a year, Carola also comes up with a short series of creative writing assignments for Prompt Enter, another of her initiatives.