Travel planning for 2010: Sailing the Caribbean

Central and South America could be my next goals for 2010.

The Caribbean Issue – Sailing the Caribbean – Learning the Ropes for $55 a Day – NYTimes.com.

San Francisco time lapse

Cool is not enough to describe this video. Enjoy!

PICNIC Network 2009

I am in PICNIC, one of the coolest international conference in Europe. Pictures and videos on Flickr and YouTube.

Goodbye Naxos

It has been a great time in Greece as always. This time I relaxed in Naxos, the biggest island of the Small Cyclades. I enjoyed it even if the weather was not perfect.

Now my greek collection is composed by: Naxos, Koufonissi, Sifnos, Paros, Mikonos.

What will be next?

You can find a Naxos (and Athens) photo album on my Flickr account

Old life, new life

Change. I like to change. I like to explore new ways. I like this kind of life. This is my life.

After some international talks and meetings between july and august there is nothing really new coming up but I feel fine anyway. Something is going to happen in my private life and I am confident it will deeply change my daily routine. There are only few weeks left.

Starting from september I will restart my digital nomad life. Stuttgart, Athens, Tuscany, London, Amsterdam and Luxembourg are in my next month agenda. Some days of vacation, some international events and some business meeting and I am ready to leave again.

I would like to share more of my personal life but You could feel it as oversharing and I don’t want to bother You. I am waiting for some new Web 2.0 social stuff so I could feel free to do it: it is only matter of time, I am sure

New opportunities, new life?

I am going to London for a few days to meet people of a new social media agency. I am not yet on holiday as I would like to be but I am happy anyway

I see my life is going to change (professionaly) again and I like this scenario. To be honest there are two scenarios at the moment and they are both exciting! I cannot write more now because I did not choose what to do and I need more time but I am positive.

Last months I realized there is a lot to do in Italy to improve private and public communication with social media and more so I see a lot of opportunities even if I feel the crisis is not at the end yet.

Crisi means opportunity and I am confident 2010 will be a great year but there are still 5 months to go. Months full of fun and projects. In my agenda I have these destinations, for fun and work: Germany, Netherlands, France, Spain, Greece, Cambodia, Thailand, Portugal (?).

Great time to live. I am feeling lucky.

PICNIC, See You in Amsterdam

I am planning to go to Amsterdam next september for PicNic, one of the best conference in Europe.

I have also a promo code to save 15% and with early bird You pay only 500 euro + VAT. Promocode is Pandemia01.

Imagine Leadership

TOP 20 TAKE AWAY TIPS FOR TWEETING JOURNOS

Good tips for journalists using Twitter from Media Shift.

1) Think before you tweet — you can’t delete an indiscreet tweet! (Well, you can, but it will survive in Twitter search for three months and it’s likely live on as cached copy somewhere.)
2) Think carefully about what you’re re-tweeting and acknowledge if it’s unsubstantiated.
3) Be an active twit: tweet daily if you want your followers to stick.
4) Determine your Twitter identity.
5) Be human; be honest; be open; be active.
6) Don’t lock your account if you want to use Twitter for reporting purposes — this fosters distrust.
7) Twitter is a community, not just a one-way conversation or broadcast channel — actively engage.
Check if your employer has a social media policy.
9) Be cautious when tweeting about your employer/workplace/colleagues.
10) Be a judicious follower — don’t be stingy but avoid following everyone as your list grows to avoid tweet bombardment.
11) If you quote a tweet, attribute it.
12) Expect your competitors to steal your leads if you tweet about them.
13) Don’t tweet while angry or drunk.
14) Avoid racist, sexist, bigoted and otherwise offensive tweets and never abuse a follower.
15) Scrutinize crowdsourced stories closely.
16) Find people to follow. Foster followers by pilfering the lists of other twits.
17) Twitter is a ‘time vampire’ (via @anne_brand) — you don’t need to keep track of all tweets, so dip in and out through the day.
18) Prevent information overload by using an application such as Tweetdeck.
19) Add applications to your Internet-enabled mobile device to allow live-tweeting on the road.
20) Add value to your tweets with links, Twitpic and other applications for audio and video.

US Department of State and Twitter

QUESTION: Can you talk about the State Department’s use of technology and websites like Twitter and Facebook to try and get information and any conversations that you might have had with Twitter?

MR. KELLY: I think – as I was following this – these developments over the weekend, it was – I mean, I – of course, I use email and I use the internet, but I began to recognize the importance of new social media as a vital tool for citizens’ empowerment and as a way for people to get their messages out. And it was very clear to me that these kinds of social media played a very important role in democracy, spreading the word about what was going on.

QUESTION: Yeah. No, I – that’s – I’m wondering about the State Department, in particular, any discussions that you’re having with networking sites about maintaining the technology, about how the State Department as an institution is monitoring these type of sites to gain information about what’s going on.

MR. KELLY: Yeah, we’re monitoring – I mean, we’re monitoring many different media, including some of these sites. And we’ve had, of course, talks with Twitter as well.

QUESTION: What’s the nature of those talks?

MR. KELLY: I don’t want to go into the detail of the nature of those talks right now.

QUESTION: Well, I mean, but by not providing any information on the nature of the talks, it indicates that you have some role in kind of providing messages to Twitter, messages to Iranians.

MR. KELLY: No. No, we’re not –

QUESTION: Okay.

MR. KELLY: I don’t want to suggest that –

QUESTION: No, that’s great. If you could explain a little bit more –

MR. KELLY: — that we’re somehow interfering in – with Twitter. But we do, of course, consult with them.

QUESTION: Well, what are you consulting with them about, if you’re not consulting with them on how to provide messages?

MR. KELLY: Well, we’re consulting with them. I know the Secretary has a – wants a big push for eDiplomacy in using these new social media to develop horizontally communities. And of course, Twitter is another one of those social media.

QUESTION: Are you saying that – I think the presumption in Elise’s question or the assumption is that you’ve been in touch with them about the situation in Iran. Is that not the case? You’re just – it’s more broad – it’s broader?

MR. KELLY: That’s – yeah, in a broad sense.

QUESTION: So you haven’t been in touch with them on the situation in Iran?

MR. KELLY: Well, I think we’ve been in touch with them on a number of very general issues.

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