Social media appears to be a tool mostly for journalists and marketers. Dr. Bertalan Meskó is making a difference in one of the less expected fields. Medicine. He founded Webicina, a curated social media resources website, and started the first online course focusing on social media and medicine. Besides his story, he gives many tips valuable for all of us …
The NHL lockout at the beginning of the current season caused small hockey madness in more than one European country. The most watched figure in the Czech Republic was definitely Jaromír Jágr, who also brought the excitement to Facebook. He casually began to communicate with his fans on his official Page and it was incredibly easy for him to attract their …
Jelena Jovanović is the founder of Cybernaut & Friends agency for integrated marketing communications, pre-politically active in Pirate Parties International and a member of a few organizations relevant to cyber-space. We have been planning this interview for a long time – and it has turned out to be very different from other Babel Guide interviews (past ones as well as …
Lukáš Kořínek is the mastermind of the social media agency Bubble and the up and coming project PostHeads. His experience with digital landscape is quite vast for his young age of 24. What brought Kořínek to where he is now? This is what he has to say…
It’s almost exactly a year since I announced the launch of Babel Guide – and now I’m finally back to say: The show must go on! Having called for participants, I am happy to have about ten people (from Czech Republic and Slovakia) who have expressed their interest in becoming contributors. We’ll see how it turns out, but the plan …
OK. It has been a long period of silence. Long enough to claim Babel Guide dead. But, to me the main idea stays valid – only the way I thought this site could be run turned out a dead-end. So, lets start again. I announce Babel Guide Reloaded, starting 1st May 2013!
This has been the third year of Social Marketers Summit in Prague and again, it was definitely worth attending! An interesting mix of foreign and local speakers was given a common topic: Show me the money. A penny earned, a penny saved, a penny gained in satisfaction. Did you miss it? Never mind, I have summed up what it was …
A man with a lot of stories. From camels through computer games to travelling the jungle of South America in a twenty-five-year-old car made in East Germany. Meet David “Havran” Spáčil. We had a great conversation about viral videos, a Chilean start-up program, tricking big media outlets and the future of David’s startup Videoflot. Why didn’t he break through in Hollywood? Read on.
Most professionals know very well that hidden in fifty shades of gray there is an area of Facebook marketing that will never make it to Facebook Studio – though it is sometimes much more effective. People sell Facebook fans for pennies and this whole segment of Facebook traffic business is usually not covered – as it of course breaks Facebook rules. But I believe it is definitely worth examination. My friends and former colleagues from Ataxo Interactive did a great job in revealing one campaign and they even included a lot of source data. How to get 100k clicks dirt cheap? Well, you can trick people to click on links if they think they lead to naked babes. Not a revolution, but surely an evolution in online marketing has taken place. The company behind this is respected by many clients as an example of customer-oriented business. We might wonder about the ethics behind it – but it probably works well.
David Šmehlík, owner of Fleveo (social media consultancy and apps company) and co-founder of Druidly (platform for automatic content distribution to mobile phones) reveals some of his secrets of success. A young entrepreneur (23) shares his opinion on what is important in social media campaigns, what he thinks about the local start-up scene and you can get a music bonus by the end of the interview!