World Blogging Forum – live blogging
Sunt la World Blogging Forum un eveniment controversat din punct de vedere al organizarii, cu implicatii politice explicate bine si succint de Chinezu.
Evenimentul este organizat de ASLS Romania, “o organizatie de tineret care a implinit 10 ani de activitate in 2009″ zice Mihaela Draghici, presedintele ASLS. Buuuun. Ne mai spune si faptul ca evenimentul este sprijinit de Agentia de Strategii Guvernamentale, Parlamentul Romaniei si Ministerul Comunicatiilor. Bun, deci proiectul e facut pe banii statului, nu putini, ba chiar mai mult se investeste in general in evenimentele de profil. O fi un record? Nu spun nimic de consilierii evenimentului si companiile implicate, atata timp cat evenimentul iese bine toata lumea e fericita. Nu am auzit de discursuri electorale, deci toate bune pana acum.
Dar sa lasam partea politica a evenimentului si sa ne bucuram de invitati, bloggeri destul de cunoscuti in afara, multi dintre ei foarte apreciati in tarile lor, dar si in plan international. Ii multumesc lui Sorin Tudor de invitatie de a face live-blogging la eveniment. La treaba zic!
Dar sa va zic si de agenda:
The live streaming is free of charge http://worldbloggingforum.com/live/
I will swich to CNN right now, making just a few romania comments.
09:30 – 10:30 – The official start – up of the conferences
Opening speeches (Partea pe care am sarit-o cu eleganta, moralist fiind)
• M. Traian Basescu, President of Romania;
• M. Daniel Buda, President of the Judicial Commission, Chamber of Deputies;
• M. Gabriel Badescu, President of the Agency for Governmental Strategies;
• M. Catalin Marinescu, President of ANCOM;
• Mihaela Dr?ghici, President ASLS Romania
• Dl. Loic LeMeur, guest speaker, blogger and entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Seesmic, founder and host of the LeWeb conferences(Paris).
First of all, I’m impressed by the layer of the room and seats, being a round table. It’s quite impressive, everybody sees everybody, something that gets you involved. Speaking of that, at the end of the short speaches I don’t hear too many question from the romanian party (just the moderator sometimes). But the other bloggers are extremely involved and inquisitive, which is normal as they are the core target of these event.
As I can see from the Agenda, they are supposed to come up with a “Bucharest Global Blogging Manifest”, drowing some conclusions about blogging in general and online jurnalism in particular.
11:00 – 13:00
I. Blogs and citizen journalism
The influence of blogs on the civil society | Standing up for the community
Moderator: Dumitru Bortun – President of the Honorific Jury, Romanian Association of Public Relations
Zhou Shuguang from China, one of the many veterans fighting the censorship of news and Internet restrictions in China.
He talked about overcoming those restriction and how the content is distributed in such an environment. RSS plays an important role in news distribution and has the best reach
Well Abbass from Egipt, a renowned Egyptian journalist, blogger and human rights activist who blogs at Misr Digital (Egyptian Awareness). He reported an incident of mob harassment of women, and broadcast several videos of police brutality. His actions lead to the conviction of police for torture, but he has been harassed by the Egyptian government, and his accounts with YouTube Yahoo were closed. YouTube has since restored his account and most of his videos. Facebook has deleted Wael’s account. His story is most impressive and his speach was one of the best ones so far.
Jeff Jedras | As both a journalist and a blogger, Jeff Jedras has his feet in the worlds of both old and new media. He writes a well-known political blog called A BCer in Toronto, focusing primarily on federal politics and his support for Canada’s Liberal Party. (hmm, parca vad acum cum se declara bloggerii de partid)
Michael Reuter from Germany, the co-founder and CEO of YiGG, a leading German social news community based in Munich. YiGG.de has about 800.000 unique visitors a month reading, discussing and publishing 500+ news per day . He has a very interesting WebTV show, for those speaking german, I highly recommend it.
The Dutch Ramon Stoppelenburg, became world famous for being the first ever person to travel the world for free, totally relying on the hospitality of strangers from all over the world, who invited him over through his website www.letmestayforaday.com. Over 3,577 people from 72 countries invited him over and from 2001 to 2003 he travelled through 18 countries in total, varying from Norway to South Africa and from Australia to Canada. His story truely amazing, as you cal tell, wish his book was available in english. Dumitru Bortun promised him a publishing deal in Romania, I hope he can delived.
Dobo Matyas – Peer – is widely known and acknowledged Hungarian IT expert, entrepreneur and blogger, introduced nearly a dozen successful web services in Hungary and he’s leading one of the most successful Hungarian internet technology blog – doransky.hu.
He developed one of the most successful blogging platforms, the first and leading video sharing platform, the most successful microblogging platform in Hungary and also worked for leading media companies on introducing money and health related services as well as VOD services for companies like RTL and T-Mobile. He also introduced several successful web services in the central European region, mainly in Czech Republic, Poland.
That was it for my in the first day.
Second Day
I will use some of the tweets of Oana Bratila, another romanian blogger as a source for citing the speakers, saving this valuable information.
The Future of Blogging
Ritchie Pettauer, Austria a blogger, online consultant and teacher at the University of Vienna.
Ritchie Pettauer studied science of communication in Vienna and started running his first online community (medianexus.net, archived in the Austrian National Library) in 1996.
After finishing his thesis on media theory, he worked at various online advertising agencies until he founded p*n*c (pettauer.net consulting) in 2002.
FB, Twitter and the other social networks are a great way to increase you blog traffic. Also use it for content teasing.
You have to find out what your audience would like to read about, in order to maximize it.
Target marketing the right way and even though you have only 200 visitors ,you can earn more then blogs with thousands of visitors
In Austria, every company feels the urge to use FB and other social media to generate income
Readers do not care about the advertising stuff – whether you earn money from your blog or not. They care about the content
You should ask your self – am I writing this blog for personal branding or am I writing it to earn money.
Find as many sources as you can, read many opinions and then write YOUR own one!
Emin Huseynzade is a new media specialist and trainer who has worked for numerous Azerbaijani and international organizations.
He is working for Transitions www.tol.org as Caucasus Project Manager for new media development program. He is promoting blogging all over the Caucasus. Up until now, he has conducted more than 20 local workshops in Caucasus and Europe.
Flash Mobs will be a part of Global social activity
In the future ppl will use more tagging platforms and mobile blogging will also increase.
The future will be seen in smaller screens
We’re blogging mostly because we want to say something or we have something to say,
Dutch Ramon Stoppelenburg. I already introduced him and I’m thankfull for his retweet relating my live-blogging post.
ramonesENG Live blogger @mirinel is covering all the speakers at the #WBF2009 http://bit.ly/Vy4lk
The main idea of his speech is that bloggers should be getting more on video. An interested idea shared by Luca Sartoni from Italy @hikari saying ”The future of blogging is the future of webcast”
Luca Sartoni is a Media Strategist and a professional blogger. He works in the social media market from 2007 and he is specialized in media strategy, business development and professional menthoring and coaching.
He formerly worked for RCS as a contributor/blogger and was the italian chieaf editor of Intruders. TV, an international videoblogging network covering web startups, social media and tech events all around Europe.
At the moment is working for 123people.com as PR & Media Strategist for Italy. He develops the media strategy and the PR in Italy, for the world’s biggest people search engine, which serves over 15M users every months in 9 countries. He developed the italian education program for XING, the german business social network.
Ask yourself how you can compensate for a problem that you have. This is responsability.
The impact of SEM on someone’s reputation – huge!
On twitter anyone can become the unofficial spokesperson of any company and it is not a good thing
Andrea Vascellari is a communicator currently founder and CEO of iTive.net(www.itive.net) an international digital strategy consulting firm based in Finland.
He is author of a highly influential blog and producer of VMC the Vascellari Media Channel.
Both, blog and media channel, attract the attention of worldwide subscribers and are accessible from his website at www.andreavascellari.com. (I recommend you his latest post on his blog relating WBF2009
You can watch his presentation form this section bellow.
The speakers of Online Journalism agenda
Onnik Krikorian is a journalist, photojournalist and blogger from the United Kingdom based in Yerevan, Armenia, for the past 11 years. In addition to writing and photographing for the mainstream traditional media, as well as working with outlets such as the BBC, Al Jazeera English, and The Wall Street Journal, he has been blogging since 2005 and is the Caucasus regional editor for Global Voices Online.
His work as Global Voices Online is just amazing. I think the next link will capture more than any word: tracking suppresion of online free speech.
David Sasaki is the Director of Rising Voices, a global citizen media outreach initiative of Global Voices Online.
He manages a portfolio of small-scale projects around the developing world that use citizen media to effect social change. Prior to his current focus on outreach he served as Global Voices’ Latin America Regional Editor, monitoring the Latin American blogosphere, highlighting key content and translating select posts from Spanish to English.
David talked about his work at Global Voices and how online journalism is changing with the help of social media and the penetration of internet access.
There are editors who are gatekeepers and they decide what is going to be written or not
The lack of responsability in the media – fact checking is going down.
We get more information from our friends that from media (however, the info we get from them is mostly from media…
Self interest is what governs our participation online. We do it because it makes us look better
Jakub Górnicki works in social media field for past few years. Currently he is responsible for Corporate Development for mixxt.com (create your own social network in 5 minutes) in Europe, and evangelises Prezi.com (presentation software) in Poland.
Jakub is also freelance journalist and photographer. Didn’t like writing blog for a long time, but changed his mind after going for Belarusian Parliamentary Election in September 2008. As a correspondent for Indigo Magazine (Dutch based European lifestyle mag), he initiated a special blog to share constant updates about elections – http://bit.ly/4ccdnX and http://bit.ly/HRhdO .
He blogs in English about new media for journalists here: http://kosmopolish.com and recently started to produce weekly live video show connected to the blog, called KosmoShow.
@kosmo talks about his “second person” – the one from social media 
It is impossible to deliver 10 stories a day if you want to follow journalism standards. You don’t have to chose between quality or quantity – you can have them both.
The session is over.
After that the Forum will start working (actually editing an online wiki) of the Bucharest Global Blogging Manifest.
I’m extremely anxios about the results.
Amintiri din epoca de aur
Ghiceste personajele si castigi o aparitiei in urmatorul film al lui Cristian Mungiu.
Catan live-streaming
Asta cum v-am anuntat deunazi, ne-am strans la un #catantwitmeet (click pentru updates);
La sugestia lui Irinel si Auras am hotarat sa organizam o zi de Catan la Sala de Lectura. Pentru cei ce nu stiu jocul, Colonistii din Catan este unul dintre cele mai populare jocuri de societate (boardgames) din ultimii ani, castigand in Germania premiul Cel mai bun joc în anul 1995 Nu este necesar sa fi jucat pana acum, va explicam noi cum se joaca, venim cu jocuri din belsug, chiar si pentru luat acasa daca vreti.
Suntem in numar mare rezonabil si ne simtem bine la Sala de Lectura. Ne puteti urmarii live aici:
Geek Meet Bucuresti – live blogging?
Se intampla GeekMeet la Bucuresti la Orange Concept Store(Calea Victoriei Nr. 41). E fun, e cu geeks si e interactiv. E mult spus ca fac live-blogging tinand cont ca am intarziat, voi pleca mai devreme si avem si live-streaming de la Radio Lynx . O sa scriu insa niste idei si poate reusesc sa pun streamul aici.
Vorbesc:
10:15 - Alexandru Gugurel, Filip Chereches-Tosa – Prezentare GeekMeet
10:30 – 11:00 - Stefan Szakal – Proiect 1000.
11:05 – 11:35 - Cristian George Strat - www.balaur.ro.
11:40 – 12:10 - Bogdana Butnar – Fii atent, sa zicem ca eu stau la computer…
12:10 – Pauz?
12:40 – 13:10 - Bogdan Colceriu - www.tetatet.ro.
13:15 – 13:45 - Alex Novac – JavaScript front-end / server-side.
13:50 – 14:20 - Marius Deak – Nereguli în antreprenoriatul “2.0? românesc.
14:20 – Pauza
15:20 – 15:50 - Filip Chereches-Tosa – Beginning iPhone Development.
15:55 – 16:25 - Mihai Dragan – MB Dragan
16:25 – 16:55 - Alexandru Ciochia – Radio Lynx
Silviu Ganaceanu, Cristian George Strat, Mircea Pasoi de la balaur.ro (au prezentat primii doi)
Balaur.ro este un super site – motor de cautare vertical (parere personala) ce indexeaza structurat 18 site-uri de joburi si le serveste intr-un mod util utilizatorului. Stie sinonime, elimina duplicate, are alerte (ce mai, un google mai mic pentru joburi )
The Geek part now:
- E facut in Python
- Are API de cautare, indexarea, Widget
- Foloseste o “piesa ruseasca” EngineX si mult bash (rumoare in sala)
- Beautifullsoup pentru parsare
- Jquery, CherryPy
- Cum se monetizeaza? Care sunt sursele?
- Va dau voie site-urile sa le indexati? Sunt ok cu asta? (de parca google iti cere permisiunea sa iti indexeze situl
- V-a cerut cineva legat sa nu mai indexati site-ul
Stefan Szakal ne vorbeste despre culisele www.proiect1000.org, la care sunt si eu sustinator dupa cum se vede in sidebar
- 99 de sustinatori
- 114 proiecte inscrise
- 23 de proiecte acceptate
- 4 proiecte in lucru
- 889 de ore lucrate
Stefan ne povesteste un pic despre proiecte: Nu fii pungas! Charity Gift, The Alternative School si altele pe care le poti gasi pe site. Interesante sunt concluziile lui despre munca pro bono si interactiunea cu clientii. Empatie din sala legat de asta!
Bogdana Butnar de la MRM, care a ajuns la timp, orice ar zice altcineva, face un mic sondaj sa vada cu cine vorbeste. Normal, nu prea a fost geek meeting pana acum. Programatori, designeri, project manageri, studenti, freelanceri, angajati ok
Ce vreti sa stiti? “Cum sa agatam fete?” Wtf people. Pana la urma s-a stabilit. Bogdana vorbeste despre cum se trateaza, sau trateaza geeksii din agentie (programatori, designeri etc). Nu pot sa sumarizez tot ce spune, urmariti streamul pana la urmatorul update.
Wow, s-a starnit o disputa intre oamenii de partea clientului (Bogdana, project-manageri, vanzari) si programatorii. Unii zic: bai, fiti oameni decenti. Ceilalti: we need specs. Practic: vorbiti limba noastra, ca noi avem cutitul, pardon tastatura.
Auzi aici definitie de geek din public: oameni care stiu sa fac o chestie foarte bine, si daca altii au nevoie de asta se folosesc de ea. In rest fac cam ce vor ei. Hmm, mi se pare ca face o tranzitie de geeks la nerd. Nu spun mai multe, tipul e foarte mare, nu mai mare decat Tudor Barbu insa, care ma invata muai-thai si este “the ultimate geek” (nu doar la bataie, da?)
A trecut pranzul. Bun
Vorbeste Bogdan Colceriu (unul dintre tipii din spatele Trilulilu.ro, Okian.ro si tetatet)
Ne povesteste de ce Trilulilu.ro fata de Youtube.ro (motive simpatice de partea primului, functionalitati, header cu care se joaca 15000 de oameni zilnic, filme ce nu se gasesc pe Youtube) Nu intru in detalii, pe care le da si el, pentru care Amazon este mai bun decat Okian (am mai vorbit de asta)
Prezentarea ii fuge, a oprit-o, face un fel de selling pentru Tetatet
Baga niste feedback de la useri, de ce e mai bun Tetatet fata de Linkedin Recunoastem un spamer.
O my god, pentru un om de marketing, prezentarea lui e crap. Bine, nici publicul nu il ajuta. Oare a auzit de 10-20-30, regula lui Guy Kawasaki?
Bun, publicul intreaba. De ce cont pe Tetatet.ro si nu pe Linkedin. Raspunsul, dupa o intrega comparatie, orice bere este copie du Pilsner Urqul, sau orice motor de cautare este copie dupa primul, este: Nevoi specifice. Care se traduce in cazul Okian: comoditate, cineva care iti rasunde la tel in romana. Bun. Nu exista copii, exista produse care satisfac nevoi specifice pe care liderul nu le satisface.
Alex Novac – JavaScript front-end / server-side.
Vorbeste de un proiect personal, cu module de Apache creat de el, astfel inca sa rulam javaScript Server-side. Hmm, idee interesanta, sa folosesti acelasi cod server-side si client-side, JSON, built-in XML suport, Speed
Alex ne spune ca mai exista proiecte similare
Mozilla Spider Monky & Google V8:
Nota. API-urile de integrare sunt diferite
JASSA Goals este numele proiectului, zic sa il contactati pe alex pentru mai multe detalii. E mult prea tehnic ca sa intru in detalii, deh, nu sunt un geek pur sange.
Vorbeste MariusDeak
Referinta la prezentarea Bogdanei, care in opinia lui nu este recunoscatoarea geeksilor: buni desingeri, Manageri de agentii (oare la cine se refera?) si multi altii care ne pun gadgeturile in mana si painea pe masa multor oamenii ce au treaba cu mediul online.
Cred ca a facut si o referinta la twittul meu, nu spun care ca ma omoara motane.lu
Ca si la Bogdana, cuvintele (mele) sunt de prisos, urmariti show-ul
Aiesec University 2009
In perioda 25 septembrie – 4 octombrie se intampla AIESEC University, o scoala de vara structurata pe cinci track-uri: Responsabilitate Sociala 25-27 septembrie, Comunicare 28-31 septembrie, Finante 28-31 septembrie, Resurse Umane 2-4 octombrie si Vanzari 2-4 octombrie.
Evenimentul va aduce alaturi de tineri nume de top ale domeniilor mai sus mentionate. Specialisti ai unor companii precum AFEER, Graffiti, Brandstalk, Strauss & Leo Burnett, Action Global Communications, BRD, TPA Horvath, InBev, Microsoft, White Image, Dale Carnegie, Agrana si Train Art vor participa alaturi de tine la workshopuri interactive si iti vor raspunde la toate intrebarile care te vor ajuta sa intelegi care tu.
Maine, 22 septembrie, e ultima zi de inscriere
Care tu esti tu?
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Pare destul de greu sa raspunzi afirmativ acestor intrebari cand esti tanar, iar lumea care te inconjoara pare sa te lase in urma de nenumarate ori.
Tocmai pentru a te ajuta sa te evaluezi intr-un mod cat mai realist si pentru a vedea care sunt punctele tale tari si cele slabe, AIESEC organizeaza intre 25 septembrie – 4 octombrie 2009 AIESEC University, un eveniment sub forma unei scoli de vara, structurat pe 5 track-uri: Social Responsability Seminar, Comunicare, Finante, Vanzari&Negociere si Resurse Umane.
Prin intermediul unor workshop-uri interactive si creative, nume de top din fiecare domeniu enumerat mai sus te vor ajuta sa iti proiectezi imaginea a ceea ce iti doresti cu adevarat sa fii.
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