Trafic.ro is the oldest and one of the most trusted audit websites for Romanian webmasters as it displays statistics for over 45.000 internet websites. The service measures Romanian Internet traffic since 2000 and in the last year they started to display an open strategy built around its community.
As we speak, Romanian online advertising has 2 accepted official measuring tools (the other one is SATI/BRAT) but trafic.ro still has the psychologycal advantage of being the first on the market, a better technical application for measuring and delivering data in realtime and it is more cost effective than SATI. Continue reading ‘Internet Event: API.trafic.ro Awards’
Next week in Bucharest – the biggest b2b event in Romania: BIZ DAYS.
The 7th edition of Romania’s Leading Business-to-Business trade show will be all about change. The world is changing, market conditions are changing, and the business world is changing along with them. More than 3.000 participants, entrepreneurs, business executives and professionals from all major industries, as well as international speakers will discuss and analyze the leading trends of events that will shape the business world of tomorrow. Continue reading ‘Zilele Biz 2009′
Zhou Shuguang, a.k.a. Zola, http://www.zuola.com is one of the veterans fighting the censorship of news and Internet restrictions in China.
Zola has participated on the reports of various sensitive stories and breaking news events such as the “Resist P-Xylene Plant” Demonstration in Xiamen, the Yilishen scandal in Shenyang, the “Weng’an Uproar”, the CCTV headquarters fire, the stabbing of a prominent blogger in Qianliexian, and the news of Hangzhou resident Tan Zhuo who was killed by a speeding sports car. read full bio…
Recently, Business Week Magazine named Loic one of The 25 Most Influential People on the Web. Loic Le Meur was also named “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum. He advises the World Economic Forum as well as covers the Annual Summit every year in Davos. Originally from the South of France, Loic lives in San Francisco, California.
Fascinating stories I hear every day from the guys in Bucharest setting up theWorld Blogging Forum.
For example, some of the bloggers they wanted to invite are imprisoned because they were talking about online activism as the government wanted to send a signal to other online voices in order to keep silent. This is the case of the case of Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli in Azerbaijan – it seems that OSCE, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders etc already following the case closely. Continue reading ‘Wael Abbas: torture, abuses and censorship – blogger shares experiences at the World Blogging Forum in Bucharest’
During the last months we’ve heard on TV that people used twitter, youtube or facebook to send news and updates from conflict zones all over the world. We witnessed it in Georgia in 2008 and in Moldova in 2009 – now, two of the twitter correspondents will join the World Blogging Forum in Bucharest:
Giorgi Jakhaia a.k.a. Cyxymu’, is a Georgian blogger who was targeted in a co-ordinated series of attacks on social networking sites Facebook, Google Blogger, Live Journal and Twitter.
‘Government as a Platform‘ is the theme and clarion call of Gov 2.0 Summit and Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase in 2009—the disruptive innovations in technology and process that will foster new levels of transparency, efficiency and participation in government today.
Tim O’Reilly has responded to the question “What is Gov 2.0?“. We want to know what YOU have to say about it.
We encourage you to record a short video response (30 seconds max), answering the question “What does Gov 2.0 mean to you?”. From the responses, we’re creating a collective of videos that we’ll feature on this page, onsite during Gov 2.0 Summit (September 9-10), via the Gov 2.0 Events Facebook page, on GovLoop, and via Twitter.
I was honored to be a mentor in JCI’s (Junior Chamber International) young entrepreneur contest this year. My mentee was Teodor Mincu and happy to say that his business plan was ranked no.1 in the national contest and that he won the grand prize.
The competition showed that the idea is not the only important thing when starting a business and I’m really excited to see that more and more Romanian entrepreneurs are building business plans before starting the actual deals.
Congratulations to Teodor (Doru) and to JCI Romania. Doru’s plan is to create an online social network that will change Romania, will improve life of millions of people and, hopefully, will save lives.
I came back very optimistic regarding the online future in Romania after networking with marketing managers from FMCG, IT, Banking, Real Estate and Pharma. The trend is to invest more in online and approach integrated TV-online strategies.
If you don’t know Peter Fisk, I recommend attending this masterclass or read his bestseller, “Marketing Genius”.
Peter Fisk was CEO of the world’s largest professional marketing organisation, the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He was Partner of The Foundation, a strategic innovation firm, and Group Managing Director of Brand Finance. Before that he was leader of PA Consulting’s global marketing team, and a strategic marketer with British Airways.
His recent clients include Coca Cola and Marks & Spencer, Microsoft and Vodafone. He was recently described by Business Strategy Review as “one of the most interesting new business thinkers” in strategy and marketing, customers, brands and innovation. | more here…
Olimpiadele Comunicarii is a local competition for marcomm students and a perfect opportunity to meet new talents. This year I was invited to judge the blogs and untill the results will be public, I’ll give you some links connected with the spirit of the competition: Continue reading ‘Olimpiadele Comunicarii 2009′
One interesting thing I’ve noticed is that everybody has an open mind regarding the Internet (from Real Estate to Industrial products) and that there are business opportunities waiting to be exploited during the crisis.
Congratulations to Tudor Maxim and Mihai Nasaudean for the launch event they hosted yesterday and for all their efforts to provide quality networking for local business entrepreneurs.
BBC Top Gear Romania and Puma Sports Romania invited me yesterday to see The Fast and The Furios 4. Since I’m a driving fan, I really did enjoy the movie and the cars
PUMA Sports is the official partner of the movie (check it out at fastandfuriousmovie.net ) and the guys at Puma Sports Romania really made my evening (I’m quite a fan of their sportswear since Michael Schumacher) – at the end I received a miniature red F1 car complementary gift (cool).
Congratulations to my colleagues at TopGear, to Serban Barbato, Ana Oprea, Costin Giurgea for setting up a great event. I had a good time!
Garnier Romania went through a lot of effort and hard work (almost 12 months/more than 100.000 EUR) to unveil their latest online platform – www.aigrijadetine.ro . Yesterday they had the official launch and I found out that the people behind the project are Radu Ionescu and Mircea Pascu. Congratulations!
One of the best offline website launches in Romania and a great event.
This week we had two challenging Internet events in Romania. Only Politica 2.0 had foreign guests but Webstock had a genuine focus on the local entrepreneurial and business community (a very good event for networking if you were interested to invest in Romania). Continue reading ‘Webstock, Politica 2.0 – Internet Events in Romania’
a really great party…
- Magda came with the gurlz.
- Fusu was in a great mood, really impressed me. Fake Fusu wuz undercover
- Vlad has very cool guys in the group.
- Alin added to his messenger list with at least +20 ppl.
- Now I have a face for nwradu
- Diana was happy
- Orlando made me think of 2009 instead of 2010
- Zoso picked up all the girls.
- Sorin now has a brand new twitter account;
- Luke is now also known as “The Godfather”
- Ionut talks passionate about wines.
- Olympus cameras are good – I saw the first football game played with a digital anti-shock camera (Adobe guys) – not to mention the resistance to still water
- Nihasa had the best party t-shirt;
- Piticu is really a giant – Innocente confirmed.
- Gramo came without gramo kid
- Bobby is not backpacking around the world.
- we decided that Ramona has secret plans;
- Mihnea was the other IAA YP board member to join the party;
- I met all the cool bloggers in the room (I hope to link them quite soon);
- my best wishes go to Dragos Novac, the man behind roblogfest 2008.
- 1 giant global player prepares to enter Romanian market (you can start searching for clues here) – both btl and online components;
- 1 giant European player entered Romania – very discreet, represented by a local company, aiming very high;
- 1 giant investment fund is ready to invest few millions in Romanian online projects – Tiger’s investment was just peanuts money compared to this; this move marks the first fund to come in Romania and focus only on Internet;
- 1 new interactive agency: Zenith Media, part of Publicis, launched Zed Digital in Romania (clients like Bayer, Baxi Group, BRD-GSG, Bunge, Caroli, Carrefour, Electrolux, Interstar, ING, L’Oreal, Nestle, Parmalat, Policolor, Reckitt Benkiser, Toyota Romania, Ursus Breweries, Vincon Vrancea):
My presentation for Strategic Marketing is finally ready and it’s called “Blogs – Competitive through information”.
I wanted to add value for the business men attending the event and I believe this will be for the first time in Romania we’ll have the chance to talk about business blogs as sources of competitive information, raw intelligence or OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) – friends tell me the latest blogging events in Romania shared the same old/sometimes lame themes/ideas.
Using art to raise awareness for the traditional Romanian customs and products is not something new but this is the first slow food movement to do this.
The sculpture above is made from traditional and very rare Plescoi sausages made by Adrian Ilfoveanu, a local modern artist. The good news is that you can see it live at Muzeul Taranului Roman – Clubul Taranului until the 25th of September along with a black and white photo exhibition signed by the international artist and photographer Nicu Ilfoveanu.
Strategic Marketing is the latest event promoted by the Business Media Group this autumn and it targets over 500 specialists in marketing, media, advertising, pr and sales. Some of the guest speakers invited will be Paul Garrison, Jared Salter, Ana Matos and Robert Zanescu and the event will take place on the 23rd of October at the World Trade Center in Bucharest.
I already confirmed my interest in this event and I’m happy to say that I’ll be one of the speakers in the “Blogging for business” workshop.
“The whole world is changing. Communication is re-shaping the face of the world. Europe is the one to set the trends, as always. We need to face those changes, know them, and be the pioneers of change. We invite you to the IAA European Summit 2007 to get insight on how to stay on top of the change!”
This is the main event of the year in the marcomm industry and will take place on the 26th and 28th of September in Bucharest. You can find out more about the event on the official website.
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