Nonick conference

Networking party during nonick 2010

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:15:48 +0000

nonick will be a day and night event. Sessions about online communities on Friday will be followed by a networking party with dinner, music and drinks at the Kafe Antzokia, in Bilbao. This restaurant and music space opened in 1999 in downtown Bilbao in the place formerly known as San Vicente Cinema.

A complete refurbishment on the old cinema inculded removal of all seats, installation of a kitchen and four bars, so it became a multi-purpose venue. Today, Kafe Antzokia is a lively place known by music lovers worldwide for its varied schedule. After dinner, we will have a drink and enjoy ourselves there. And then the night is young

New York Times Social media editor Jennifer Preston will be at Nonick 2010

admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:15:24 +0000

Jennifer Preston, the New York Times‘ Social Media Editor, is the first key note speaker confirmed for this year’s nonick conference focusing on on-line communities, being held in Bilbao on May 14th and 15th. The Basque broadcasting service website, eitb.com, and internet company Enpresa Digitala will be in charge of organizing the event.

Jennifer Preston has spent the last 15 years as a reporter, editor and newsroom manager at The New York Times. Before being named as the papers first social media editor, she previously oversaw The Times’ regional weeklies. Prior to joining the Times in 1995, initially as state house bureau chief in New Jersey, Jennifer worked at the Philadelphia Bulletin, Philadelphia Daily News and New York Newsday, where she held a variety of posts including, Deputy Metropolitan Editor, City Hall Bureau Chief, and Police Bureau Chief.

While a reporter in Room 9 at City Hall for six years, Jennifer published a book, Queen Bess, about Bess Myerson, the former Miss America and Koch administration official who was caught up in New York City’s municipal corruption scandal in the 1980’s. As a reporter, she has also won several investigative reporting awards, including the Golden Typewriter Award for Public Service by the New York Press Club for a series on the police use of deadly force by off-duty police officers.

In addition to her experience as a newsroom manager in News Administration at The Times, where she was involved in staffing, recruiting, labor relations, budgeting, and strategic planning, she has also worked as a circulation marketing manager at Newsday. Nowadays she is one of the professors at The H Journalism School of Columbia University. She has attended newsroom management and leadership programs at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business Administration. Jennifer is a graduate of Boston University.

This year’s Nonick will take place on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th May at the Bilbao headquarters of the Basque Country’s Public Broadcasting Company, EITB. The focus of Nonick 2010 will be on-line communities, bringing together experts in the field of on-line social network from all over Europe.

This year’s edition of Nonick will also hold presentations by professionals of renowned success and international standing, will include workshops and dedicate an important part to networking sessions.
This year will mark the second Nonick conference, following last year’s first edition which focused on video, web and television. Nonick is the successor to Blogak, an event which during the last decade brought together bloggers from all to the Biscay capital.

Nonick 2010, Bilbao 14-15 May, to focus on on-line communities

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:54:02 +0000

Both date and theme have been set for this year’s nonick, due to take place on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th May at the Bilbao headquarters of the Basque Country’s Public Broadcasting Company, EITB. The focus of nonick 2010 will be on-line communities, bringing together experts in the field of on-line social network from all over Europe.

This year’s edition of nonick will also hold presentations by professionals of renowned success and international standing, will include workshops and dedicate an important part to networking sessions.

This year will mark the second nonick conference, following last year’s first edition which focused on video, web and television. nonick is the successor to Blogak, an event which during the last decade brought together bloggers from all to the Biscay capital.

The Basque broadcasting service website, eitb.com will organize this event together with the Basque Government’s Department of Industry, Innovation, Commerce and Tourism, through SPRI’s Enpresa Digitala initiative. It will be held in English.

Colnect wins this year’s Startup 2.0

admin — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:49:56 +0000

Israeli project Colnect, a community for people collecting things, has won this year’s edition of Startup 2.0. The jury valued strongly its capacity to generate a community and real traffic. Its founder, Amir Wald, used a high quality video during its presentation, which was also very much appreciated by the audience of nonick, the event in which Startup 2.0 was held.

In second place was Genoom, a community based on genealogical links which has 600,000 registered users. The jury thinks it will be easy to make money with this project. In third place was Twidox, a project from Germany which lets business users share and find documents.

Video of Colnect:

Interview with Amir Wald in front of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, after winning Startup 2.0:

Videos and photos of nonick

admin — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:55:52 +0000

There are plenty of videos and photos of nonick. Gorka Palazio has prepared a great summary of the conference, while the people from Agoranews have opened a videoblog specifically about nonick with many interviews and reports on what’s happening in Bilbao during these two days. There are also plenty of photos on Flickr.

And the winner is…

admin — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:44:22 +0000

After a tight vote from the jury, we can announce that the best european blog is Netzpolitik, written in German. The best videoblog was, after the votes from the public, LaComuna.tv, from Spain. These were the complete results:

1. German: 12 points
2. English: 11 points
3. Spanish: 9 points
4. Italian: 8 points
5. Turkish: 6 points
6. Basque and Polish: 5 points
8. French: 4 points
9. Ukrainian: 3 points
10. Portuguese: 2 points
11. Russian: 1 point

These were all the blogs taking part in the final:

1. Basque:
http://ikteroak.blogsome.com
Blog by teachers from a children’s school with teaching material

2. English:
http://www.thedailyspud.com
A blog about food and drinks

3. French:
http://fr.techcrunch.com
Its name says it all: Web 2.0 and Startups

4. German:
http://netzpolitik.org
Political platform for freedom and openness in the digital age

5. Italian:
http://www.catepol.net
A multitasking girl in a multitasking world: web 2.0, e-learning, twitter, technology…

6. Polish:
http://antyweb.pl
Basically Polish Techcrunch

7. Portuguese:
http://educar.wordpress.com
Open texts and memories on the pretext of Education

8. Russian:
http://exler.livejournal.com
For Russian geeks

9. Spanish:
http://www.marcvidal.cat/espanol
For people interested in the crisis and the economic context

10. Turkish:
http://vintagebiscuit.blogspot.com
A blog for lovers of vintage clothing and fashion

11. Ukrainian:
http://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/medvedev
Blog by famous political strategist Oleg Medvedev in the Ukrainian Pravda

Photo by nicholas macgowan

Euro Blog Awards’ 11 finalists decided

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:37:03 +0000

We are closing votes for the Euro Blog Awards. So that the final decision will be in the hands of the jury members. They will be voting tomorrow via video to their 3 favorite blogs from a different language than theirs. Besides, people’s votes will used to decide which is the best videoblog.

These are the 11 finalists:

1. Basque:
http://ikteroak.blogsome.com
Blog by teachers from a children’s school with teaching material

2. Inglés:
http://www.thedailyspud.com
A blog about food and drinks

3. French
http://fr.techcrunch.com
Its name says it all: Web 2.0 and Startups

4. German
http://netzpolitik.org
Political platform for freedom and openness in the digital age

5. Italian
http://www.catepol.net
A multitasking girl in a multitasking world: web 2.0, e-learning, twitter, technology…

6. Polish
http://antyweb.pl
Basically Polish Techcrunch

7. Portuguese
http://educar.wordpress.com
Open texts and memories on the pretext of Education

8. Russian
http://exler.livejournal.com
For Russian geeks

9. Spanish
http://www.marcvidal.cat/espanol
For people interested in the crisis and the economic context

10. Turkish
http://vintagebiscuit.blogspot.com
A blog for lovers of vintage clothing and fashion

11. Ukrainian
http://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/medvedev
Blog by famous political strategist Oleg Medvedev in the Ukrainian Pravda

These are the criteria that the jury members will be using:
1. Creativity in design and multimedia elements
2. Number of feedbacks/comments
3. Idea and innovation

Meet-up with other nonickers tonight

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:22:24 +0000

There is a meet-up being organized tonight in Bilbao with other nonickers and people taking part in Startup 2.0. If you are already in town, people from Mobnotes are using their platform to organize this meetup. So come!

Only a few days remain to register

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:35:46 +0000

The conference programme is based on all things related to networking, focussing this year on video, internet and television. It includes three debates on the subject of networking, as well as the Startup 2.0 competition, the Euro Blog Awards, a Developers Garage, a Kiss (Keep It Simple, Stupid) night and various hands-on workshops.

Given the international nature of the event, nonick will be held mostly in English. As its name indicates, nonick (or “no nick”) aims to encourage its attendees to seek out business opportunities, ideas and inspiration through direct human interaction.

On the Friday (24th) a debate entitled “Engaging with creative content producers” will mark the beginning of the two-day event, with Gabe Mac mediating an interactive talk between videobloggers. The following round of talks, entitled “Next on video on the net”, being together creative profiles, major interactive platforms such as Youtube and Dailymotion and corporations from the industry (Cisco Systems), will take place the same afternoon.

At midday on the Saturday, participants will be able to attend the third and final debate, “How to make a successful and profitable videowebsite”. With an obvious practical angle, the talk will include audience and publicity experts, as well as contributions from a couple of success stories within the domain of video websites.

In the section Developers Garage, developers of various applications and interactive platforms will present their latest projects. Likewise on Saturday morning, workshops will become open forums in which all attendees will have the opportunity to propose a topic for discussion.

Moreover, this year will see the new edition of the Startup 2.0 contest. nonick will host the final of the competition in which the best European companies in the field innovation will compete. Following its two previous editions, Startup 2.0 has become the most important competition of its kind on the continent.

Last but not least, nonick will also celebrate the Euro Blog Awards in pure “Eurovision” style. A jury of twelve experts from different European cities will vote via video connection to select the best European bitacora. Ten members of the jury will represent the most spoken European languages, while one will represent the Basque language and one other will act on behalf of the other remaining languages.

nonick hosts Euro Blogs Awards, the “Internet Eurovision”

admin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:00:41 +0000

The Euro Blogs contest, which is similar to Eurovision but focused on blogs, is being celebrated in Bilbao as part of the international internet event nonick.

A 12-member jury will be choosing the best on-line diaries in 12 different languages -the most spoken around the globe without forgetting Basque-.

Internet users are deciding the results of the preliminary round through www.euroblogawards.com at the moment. The ones that reach the final will be voted in a ceremony in which the results will be unveiled by means of video-introductions which will be similar to the Eurovision Festival live connections in every country capital.

The awards ceremony can be watched live on nonick from 12.00 am on April 24. nonick is an event jointly organised by eitb.com and SPRI with the collaboration of Alianzo that will also be hosting a Startups contest and several workshops on video, television and internet.