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Announcing BabelCamp – CEE Social Media Barcamp
BabelGuide is proud to present: BabelCamp – a social media barcamp for Central Europe that will take place in Brno, Czech Republic on August 31st. Prepare for an extraordinary event: over 40 interesting speakers from 7 countries, an enthusiastic audience, sophisticated networking, great catering and an awesome after-party. For free.
Hrvoje Prpić – a Croatian business angel
A co-founder of the Croatian Business Angels Network (CRANE) and founder of HGspot, the largest electronics retailer in Croatia. He invests in some very interesting projects that change the course of Internet and mobile usage in Europe and worldwide. For Babel Guide he talks about them, as well as about the future of the online world in Europe.
Dr. Bertalan Meskó – Dr. House on Twitter
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 …
A surprising Facebook guru: Jaromír Jágr
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 – the pirate cybernaut
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 – just another Bubble?
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…
New Babel Guide – what is in the pipeline
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 …
Babel Guide Reloaded
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!
Social Marketers Summit Prague 2012
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 …
David Spáčil – from studying camels to video community site in Chile
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.
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