Posts from category:blogging

One of the complaints I hear a lot in the Romanian tech scene is the lack of support from the press and the blogosphere for the startups, being sites, apps and businesses. I have a few ideas about this, having the most popular Romanian blog, read by journalists, businessmen and other people: the startup/person pitching is shady […]

I was cleaning my bookmarks and found a folder with saved articles from when i started blogging. Most of them are still valid after 10 years and a lot of changes in this medium. Top 10 mistakes bloggers make, june 2007 Buzz kill, 2010 What are you doing at 3am, march 2007 5 elements of […]

Other than spam, there are quite a few legitimate advertising inquiries regarding my Romanian blog, zoso.ro, by international advertisers. And there are problems: the broken english. not a good impression on a first email when your wording and writing are poorer than mine. screams bad professionalism. lack of minimal research 1. because Romania is a poor […]

I hate it when bloggers don’t understand simple concepts, like who’s content is it and a fast blog is is better. So, here are some pointers:   1. Fix your blog tech issues This scares a lot of people, but being scared of it is not going to fix anything. Really. Check speed, usability, photo […]

This is the cry of the Romanian blogger. For years he’s been begging for attention from the companies, and now that he has it, he does not know how to cope with it and how to deliver. Now he has made up his mind he does not want attention (press releases, party invites, product testing […]

So you’ve become more successful that you thought possible. People recognize your skills and put you up on the good list. But you forgot how you got there. And for months now your blog had that traffic because you wrote good articles some years ago. But how long will those visitors keep coming back?

Four years ago, Razvan Varabiescu, head of an online agency, contacted me for an advertising campaign on blogs. I chose some of the blogs i thought fit for the job and ran the first advertising campaign on Romanian blogs. After that, i stayed in touch with the other bloggers and started to ran campaigns on […]

In Romania, we are used to people shouting as hard as they can about their success. They do this, they do that, they just opened a new interactive agency, they’ve just rolled a new amazing campaign… Most of it is PR bullshit. And the people who do stuff do not brag about it too much. […]

I will be attending IFA in Berlin again. On the 4th I will be at the Bloggers Forum in salon4/5, wearing a brown “no one cares about your blog” t-shirt. I hope it will be better than last year, because that one sucked. And I hope more time to play with gadgets.

Today at IFA I had the pleasure of listening to Robert Scoble speak in a panel about German and American Bloggers. It was weird somehobw, because he did not say nothing i did not knew and his presenting style is not so flashy (as oposed to Hugh McLeod, for example). I listened to some German […]