in Central and Eastern Europe
CouchSurfing 101 – 10+1 tips to enjoy the hospitality networks
I guess I can claim to be a pioneer among hospitality networks users in Czech Republic. I registered on Hospitality Club in 2004, joined CouchSurfing in 2006 because of writing an article about the new trend in travelling and hosted probably 100+ people. Many people have asked me about my experience and so I decided to sum it up in a popular form: 10+1 tips how to enjoy CouchSurfing to the fullest!
LinkedIn – new statistics for CZ, SK, PL and HU
LinkedIn – it may be less fancy, but to many professionals, it’s far more important than Facebook and Twitter. What does this social network look like from the Central European perspective? Let’s find this out with Jana Filová, a researcher and a great blogger who agreed to share her findings, comparing the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary with the rest of the world on LinkedIn, on BabelGuide.
Politicians on Facebook – or why the dumber win
While social media is embraced by many as a mean of democratization of politics (in a tradition that goes far back to 80’s and early 90’s when the enthusiasts of on-line environment believed in a direct democracy to be possible because of the Internet), politicians see it as an opportunity to spread their message to new audiences. How does it work in CEE? Let’s take a look at the Czech Republic as an example (with some comments on Slovakia and Poland too).
Olga Biernátová – from library to Tweeting the Universe
It wasn’t easy to choose the first person for my line of interviews. I want to introduce my local social media heroes, people who do it right and I’m always keen to cooperate with or follow their interesting projects. But who to choose, so that nobody feels offended? Ladies and non-commercial sector first! Let me introduce Olga Biernátová aka @nofreeusernames – a guerilla reader, a kitchen singer, a librarian and a geekette with the best presentations around
Ten Commandments of Twitter Communication for Companies
Martin Malý, an important Czech blogger, ex-editor in chief of Zdroják, founder of bloguje.cz and generally a really interesting guy, wrote Ten Commandments of Twitter Communication for Companies last autumn. You might think they’re totally clear – and so do I – but there are SO many brands ignoring them that I believe it’s still worth repeating them again.
Fear of the unknown
To be a responsible parent is not easy – that‘s quite clear. But mums and dads of our generation have an extra burden compared to their ancestors: the Internet.
An article about children, parents and social networks. My piece of advice: where there is trust, you don’t have to spy on your kids on Facebook. Originally published in Czech in newspaper Brněnský Deník Rovnost.
Slideshare acquired by LinkedIn – a good news?
Recently, there have been various acquisitions made, some of them surprising, some of them feared and some of them just make sense. This one falls into the last category.
A few thoughts on a latest big deal + a great infographics + some words on earlier acquisition policy by LinkedIn, enjoy.
Babel Guide, pt. 1: Our Mission
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Success stories
This is my favourite part of the whole concept. I have seen many great projects and people in Czech Republic and other CEE countries and I often wondered – what would the gurus from Silicon Valley say about them? Are these concepts interesting taken away from the original context? But in most of the cases we never know, as they haven‘t made it to the eyes of the English speaking public.
In my opinion, it‘s about time to showcase their projects. We will ask social media specialists, marketing weirdos, crazy librarians, famous bloggers, nerdy start-up founders to find out more about what is their secret formula, where do they come from and what are their goals. We want to ask about their biggest mistakes and their opinion on life, universe and everything.
Check & Polish
What has been the key to successful presence on Facebook? There is no secret formula to have a great Facebook page. However, there are some tips and tricks to enhance it and we would like to share our findings. In this section we are going to publish little audits exploring always couple of pages from the same industry. We will try to find out what makes the best stand out of the crowd.
In each case I try to identify the positive elements and the weak points – and give out some pieces of advice for each page. We will later update the articles to see the changes in time (and also whether they reacted to our comments).
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