Cvander:

This 29th of november, Networking Activo will have its Second Business Meeting event in Barcelona and I’ll be there. The first one in Madrid was a great opportunity to meet a lot of people from the Internet business in Spain.

Thanks to Emilio for the invitation and hope to meet more great people -more than 180 confirmed guests. The program seems very complete with a Keynote from Enrique Dans, a well known teacher and blogger here in Spain.

Update: The event has live streaming today from Citilab in Quicktime.

I have arrived to the lovely Seville very excited to spend the weekend, and be part of Evento Blog Second Edition, the biggest event for the blog industry in Spain.

The program seems very promising, it includes a great diversity of workshops and conferences; the networking this weekend will be great.
I’m particularly interested in the conferences of Hernan Casciari (Orsai), Jose Luis Orihuela (eCuaderno) and Biz Stone (twitter).

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By the way, this weekend I’ll also meet Jure Cuhalev from Slovenia. I first meet him in Web 2.0 expo in Berlin, were he introduced me to Zemanta. They’ve been working on a technology to analyze contents while you write. The main objective is being able to auto-complete your posts with pictures, tags, links and related links on the fly. Seriously, one of the best plugins I’ve seen for Wordpress, and a great opportunity for develop it in spanish.

Jure will be in Sevilla during the weekend. He booked the flight to attend EBE, but the event registration was already closed -since the website is in Spanish he asked for my help, but it was to late-. He would love to meet other bloggers in town and share a demo, so let him know at Zemanta blog.

Arranco la charla sobre Consejos para comunidades virtuales aquí en el Palacio de Congresos de Madrid. A ver que opina la audiencia y aquí dejo la presentación.

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Aprovecho a agradecer la reseña de Miguel Angel Ivars Mas que detalla lo que se comentó en la charla. Y también hay muchas fotos en flickr:congreso de webmasters.

Actualización: anunciolibre comparte un trozo de vídeo de la ponencia en Youtube.

Last thursday we meet in Buda Bar with Jeremiah Owyang, an interesting guy from the Bay Area that is doing some blogger dinners everywhere he goes. It is his second time in Barcelona, since he had his honeymoon here a few years ago.

There were some familiar faces and good networking. The evening ended in Ciudad Comdal (my favorite Tapas place in Barna) were we started talking about some OpenSoftware projects, and the lack of marketing that the majority of projects have to achieve the mainstream.

It was a great discussion about the need of a team of marketing and business professionals to help the Open Source community. Since the Open(whatever) is fashionable this days, we ended up talking about OpenMarketing.

Imagine this team that will focus on asking the right questions to the developers of OpenSource projects. It is about making marketing mix plans and adding value to projects. The main concern is with the profitability for the team, but this marketing has to be Open and a learning excersice for developers. I am sure that the ones that help will get good promotion for their names -branding is as important as cash-. Surgeons and lawyers do complicated work pro bono, so lets share the Open Source culture to the marketing world.

Anyway, Jeremiah left some thoughts about the meeting in his blog and also some pics in flickr:barcelonabloggernov07.

There will be no rest this weekend, because 17-18 of november will be a great opportunity to meet with friends from all over Spain, do Networking and share some thoughts about Online Communities in the I Webmaster Congress promoted by Factoria de Internet.

The event will be held in the Palacio de Congresos in Madrid and there is a couple thousand confirmed attendees with speakers like Angel Maria, Carlos Blanco, Gonzalo Ruiz, o Rubén Calvo, Bernardo Hernández, Joshua Novick, Samuel Arenas, Eneko Knörr, Pep Sánchez, David Quirant, Miguel Orense and David Martin.

See you in Madrid!

Following the Adobe community, I had read Mike Chambers and his work as an Adobe evangelist, so when the guys of MadeInFlex Community promoted an event in Barcelona this week with his name, it rang a bell.

The event is the first one promoted by the community and was held in the Adobe Offices in Torre Mafre (one of the two towers next to the Olympic harbor in Barcelona). Great view of the city, free pizza and lot of developers on site.

Mike talked a lot about AIR, and also showed a video of Thermo, a project that will really help designers and developers to interact in a better way.

We also had a fun conference of Lee Brimelow from The Flash Blog, a platform evangelist that has some cool examples of what you can build with Flash, Flex and AIR.

The local team of speakers included Angel Blesa speaking about Guasax framework and Joan Garnet about Flex.

By the way, Carlos Rovira is a really tall guy and I finally had the chance to meet Xavi Beumala.

There are so many good reasons to have a blog, but I have to admit that my main goal is to use it as a learning tool.

Yes, learn to write down my thoughts and share stories, learn to think over and over my ideas, learn from the comments and reactions of my readers, and from now on, learn to write better in English.

I’m going to write more often in English than in Spanish in my personal blog. For some posts about Community building, technology and Internet stuff I will always share them in Maestros del Web (in Spanish for sure).

Don’t hesitate to correct if something is terribly written…

Diariamente se publican más de mil mensajes nuevos en Foros del Web y así, a inicios de la semana llegamos a superar la suma de 2millones de mensajes.

Muchas gracias a la comunidad y en especial al equipo de moderadores y colaboradores que nos apoyan para que el proyecto siga creciendo. Muchas gracias a todos los que comparten su conocimiento y a los que diariamente tenemos más sed por aprender. Ahora tenemos mucha información para analizar y buscar nuevas ideas de evolución para nuestro proyecto.