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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!