Posts tagged with:conferences

Glad to see How to Web, a Romanian conference, is getting some press, after they cleaned up their act and started being bigger than life. This year they have a good lineup, with some interesting folks speaking. Aside from that, one thing about the frequent conference speaker, the guy speaking at 30-50 gigs a year, […]

I had Office 2010 on my laptop for no good reason. All I needed to do was issue some invoices and do some presentations for the conferences I speak at. And Office always gave me trouble. Wanted to update all the time, lost file associations, crased and demanded the original disk to be inserted and […]

You go at 20 conferences a year. You have 3-4 workshops a year. When do you have time to experiment and find new ideas to speak of at these events? Do you have new ideas and experiences to tell? Or do you just rewrite what the big boys have found out a year ago and […]

So, there is this Romanian guy, Dragos Roua, who talks a lot about success and entrepreneurship and leading a better life. You know the kind, he is not an expert in any field, but he is riding the “write bullshit about being better” blog train that gullible people read and find useful. Dragos Roua used […]

Since I left Bucharest (I’ve moved to Berlin, Oradea and now Brasov)  I’ve developed a personal brand strategy. I show up for a few conferences and gigs and people tend to cherish that. I don’t bore people with my presence every time there is an event remotely connected to online, even thought I get invited […]

I’ve been blogging since 2005, when the blogs were few and people were eager to read something outsite the crappy journalist/pr press. The door was open so me and a few others just walked in. Now that blogs are mainstream, I see a lot of the new bloggers that step up and want to be […]

I started writing again for blog20.ro (in Romanian about Romanian internet). I hope this phase remains longer than the last one. I flew to Bucharest (12 hours by train, 45 minutes by plane and only 40€ more) and attended NetCamp, a conference organized by Cristi Manafu. Bucharest is a depressing city. Gray and without smiling […]