Blogcamp CEE 2008 :: Kyiv, October 17-19

Blogcamp/Spot is changing its topic and becomes Mediacamp Kyiv 2009

Yaroslav Azhnyuk — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:01:41 -0700

Concept of an informal conference for internet specialists of Blogcamp - planned to be changed to Spot, is changing. New conference will be devoted to online media projects, switching of traditional media to digital format and publishing business on the internet. Mediacamp Kyiv 2009 will be a new name of the conference in this renewed format. MediaCamp participants are journalists, editors, media managers, publishers and those bloggers that use blogs for publishing business purposes. MediaCamp will have representatives of both online and offline media - press, TV, and radio. Media specialists from both spheres will be able to learn from each other’s experience. The conference will accommodate 250-300 participants.

Organizers of the Mediacamp Kyiv 2009 conference are Internet Initiatives a civic organization that served as an organizer of Blogcamp CEE 2008, as well as Internews-Ukraine, an international civic organization that helped to organize the first Blogcamp CIS & Baltics 2007 and now is implementing MediaNext - a project aimed to develop new media.

Mediacamp Kyiv 2009 will take place in the first half of November in Kyiv. The exact date and place will be announced in August or September. A separate web-site will be set and it will inform on the preparation process for the event. The organizers believe that Mediacamp Kyiv 2009 will be one of the most remarkable event in the Ukrainian media community in the second half of 2009.

Blogcamp is becoming a part on new conference – Spot

advertka — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:37:38 -0700

Over a month ago preparation to Blogcamp 2009 started. The project is managed by an updated organizing team and we have very ambitious plans. The topics of the conference have wandered off from the themes of blogs and social media and we decided to give this event a new name. International conference for internet specialists from Central and Eastern Europe will now become “Spot”, while Blogcamp will become a part of Spot and will be organized during the conference. Welcome to Spot 2009!

Renewed Spot conference will be more wide thematically and will be slightly different from the barcamp format everyone is used to. We will try to engage well-known speakers from all over the world, the program will be predefined and the access to Spot agenda will be charged with a fee. However, the Blogcamp part will stay “unconference” – program will be defined by the participants and there will be no entrance fee. Spot and Blogcamp agendas will run simultaneously.

Spot conference will take place in Kyiv, on October 30-31, 2009 in ACCO International exhibition center (address: Pobedy ave. 40-B).

Investor Day, organized last year as a part of Blogcamp, is becoming an independent partnering event of Spot. Investor Day Central and Eastern Europe 2009 will take place on October 28-29 on the same venue in ACCO International. The official Investor Day web-site is IDCEE.eu.

At the moment we are working on Spot conference web-site which will be launched on a new address. Until then you can read the news about conference preparation on BlogcampCEE.com. Follow our updates and start planning the trip to Kyiv in the end of October.

Winners of Start-up Contest

Olia Dehtyarova — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:31:46 -0700

On the 19th of October, during Investor Day finalists of start-up contest presented their projects to the jury. In the evening of the same day the winners were selected in each of two nominations:

Seed Stage – the project is on the level of idea or early prototype, needed investments – from 50 to 150 thousand Euro.
Early Growth Stage – the company has already started selling products/services and has a stable growth, needed investments - from 500 thousand to1 million Euro.

The winners of the contest are projects Hippocrat (Seed Stage) and ClienteQ (Early Growth Stage). The first project is a social network for those who care about their health; the second is a CRM solution for joined work of companies and their clients. Both winners received invitation to attend Silicon Valley Open Doors 2008. However, the most important results for all winners and finalists were the opportunities to contact with investors, to present them their ideas and receive evaluation and feedback from venture business professionals.

Blogcamp CEE 2008 in Photos!

Olia Dehtyarova — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:15:12 -0700

We have already uploaded the photos which we gathered from some of you and partially have made ourselves. Now it's up to you - we are waiting for new links to your online albums - let's remind everyone what Blogcamp was like and visualize it for all those who didn't manage to attend. I will be constantly updating this post. And don't forget about copyright if you will be using these pictures ;)

Huge thanks to all those who have already shared their work with us!

Photo reports from Blogcamp CEE 2008!

New!
http://picasaweb.google.ru/artem123123/BlogcampEEE2008#
http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/AntonMe/album/83691
http://fotki.yandex.ru/tags/blogcamp/
http://blox.blox.ua/2008/10/BlogcampCEE2008-fotovrazhennya.html
http://blox.blox.ua/2008/10/Best-Ukrainian-Blog-Awards.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/blogcampcee/
http://picasaweb.google.com/pavel.bashmakov/BlogcampCEE2008

Some statistics

Olia Dehtyarova — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:47:53 -0700

After summing up all registrations and sessions it has turned out that:

Blogcamp has gathered 821 participants from Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, USA, Russia, Uzbekistan and Estonia.
During three days 87 blogcamp sessions were hold and 3 sessions + 10 presentations of start-ups during Investor Day. In total - 100 sessions.

Last year we had around 350 participants and 60 sessions.
Pretty good dynamics, right? :)

Streaming mobile video from Blogcamp. Constantly updating!

Yaroslav Azhnyuk — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:37:10 -0700

provided by QIK

First thoughts about Blogcamp from the participants!

Olia Dehtyarova — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:31:08 -0700

Third Blogcamp day has started an hour ago.

In this post we have gathered a part of your first thoughts, feedbacks and photos about first two days. If you wrote something, uploaded photos and want to share your thoughts with other Blogcampers - leave comments here and we will be constantly up-dating this post.

http://blog.masterpiecer.org.ua/archives/366
http://www.kachayev.ru/2008/10/19/menya-poglotil-blogcamp/
http://watcher.com.ua/?p=523
http://kinmila.livejournal.com/283396.html
http://fernan-de-suoza.livejournal.com/419686.html
http://b2blogger.livejournal.com/121159.html
http://dan-kiev-ua.livejournal.com/131286.html
http://dan-kiev-ua.livejournal.com/131379.html
http://nedobalkan.livejournal.com/585177.html
http://indrih.livejournal.com/300281.html

Microsoft welcomes bloggers

Oksa Zavoyko — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:13:33 -0700

Microsoft Ukraine will present new products and technologies for bloggers at BlogCamp2008.

Today at 12:20 pm Igor Shastitko, known IT expert and internet enthusiast, will demonstrate the new generation of Windows Live products, in particular Live Spaces blog platform, a tool for easy blogging Live Writer/live Toolbar, and Live Photo Gallery. Those who are interested in development of dynamic content and gadgets for web sites will be interested to see Microsoft Popfly, and Microsoft Expression Studio will attract web designers.

This will be a very interactive demo, and Ihor will gladly answer all your questions.

Microsoft stand will also work in the main networking area during the day, where you will be able to get full information about new Windows Live products and see their demonstration. Free t-shirts are available for bloggers who have LiveID (those who don’t can register right on the spot).

Let’s communicate!

Let’s start!

advertka — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:51:39 -0700

Blogcamp first day has already begun! Everything you are used to doing online in the blogsphere and social web will move offline for the next three days. This is the time for making new contacts and non-virtual meetings, creating new projects and concepts, exchanging experience and ideas!

Blogcamp is a conference organized by its participants themselves. You make it what it is in the end. Give a presentation, hold a master class or a discussion, be active – Blogcamp is intended to create an atmosphere of constant brainstorm! Support this atmosphere on sessions, ask questions and dispute – discover intellectual and creative power of yourself and your colleagues.

You can also join the help team in order to help with technical organization and make Blogcamp better. Even if you are not a member of help team, you still are a co-organizer of the event. Improve Blogcamp and help it to overcome all the challenges.

In order to receive maximum benefit from Blogcamp:

Make acquaintances and exchange contacts non-stop. Do not miss an opportunity to share your ideas with new and old friends and colleagues in Networking Zone.
Share your positive emotions. Satisfaction from the event depends on your mood – Blogcamp will return your emotions back to you!
Help the presenters: develop their ideas, offer alternatives, and hint at analogies.
Publish reports about Blogcamp in your blogs – during the event and after it as well. Share what you receive from Blogcamp with the world.

And remember: Blogcamp is what we make it together!

rushman — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:17:06 -0700