World Blogging Forum 2009 – Bucharest | Romania
This page is updated on daily basis as WBF participants confirm their presence in Bucharest.
Loïc Le Meur is the founder and CEO of Seesmic, a software company that makes one of the most popular Twitter and Facebook social software clients. Seesmic got more than two million downloads and its website, Seesmic.com, has about a million unique visitors a month even though it was just launched. | read more…
Zhou Shuguang, a.k.a. Zola, is a self-taught internet technologist and has participated on the reports of various sensitive stories and breaking news events such as the “Resist P-Xylene Plant” Demonstration in Xiamen, the Yilishen scandal in Shenyang, the “Weng’an Uproar”, the CCTV headquarters fire | read more…
The Dutch Ramon Stoppelenburg (1976) started blogging from his student loft somewhere in 1998. His website had once processed over 1,2 million visits in one month. The British Sunday Times even called him the Internet Personality of the Year[...] read more…
Jakub Górnicki is Senior Community Management Consultant & Country Manager Poland at mixxt GmbH http://mixxt.com (corpdev) and Internet evangelist in Poland | read more…
Dvorit Shargal was a Senior Editor and a Writer in some of the Israeli printed newspapers and Magazines, including Hadashot, Yedioth Ahronot , Maariv, the Israeli version of National Geographic and many more. Following her career at the printed newspapers she was the chief editor of Tapuz, one of Israel’s most popular Internet portals | read more…
Onnik Krikorian is a journalist, photojournalist and blogger from the United Kingdom based in Yerevan, Armenia, for the past 11 years. In addition to writing and photographing for the mainstream traditional media, he has been blogging since 2005 and is the Caucasus regional editor for Global Voices Online | read more…
David Sasaki is the Director of Rising Voices, a global citizen media outreach initiative of Global Voices Online.
He manages a portfolio of small-scale projects around the developing world that use citizen media to effect social change | read more…
Jeff Jedras | As both a journalist and a blogger, Jeff Jedras has his feet in the worlds of both old and new media. In his day job, Jeff has been a journalist covering the information technology (IT sector) for over 10 years. For the last four he’s been a senior writer with IT World Canada, the largest IT trade publisher in Canada, and publisher of titles including Computer World Canada | read more…
Ritchie Pettauer is a blogger, online consultant and teacher at the University of Vienna. Ritchie studied science of communication in Vienna and started running his first online community in 1996. He is a public speaker with a profound interest in the fundamental change brought to our society by the internet | read more…
Giorgi Jakhaia a.k.a. Cyxymu’, is a Georgian blogger who was targeted in a co-ordinated series of attacks on social networking sites Facebook, Google Blogger, Live Journal and Twitter. Cyxymu’s Russian-language LiveJournal blog was a source of information from Georgia for the news media during the 2007 state of emergency and 2008 South Ossetia war| read more…
Mihaela Onofrei is special correspondent for Radio Lynx. From 20 years she is working as a journalist. She has graduated a master in social sciences. As correspondent in Transdniestria region, Afganistan and South Ossetia, Mihaela Onofrei has a wide experience in reporting from conflict areas | read more…
Luca Sartoni is a Media Strategist and a professional blogger. He works in the social media market from 2007 and he is specialized in media strategy, business development and professional menthoring and coaching. He formerly worked for RCS as a contributor/blogger and was the italian chieaf editor of Intruders | read more…
Petru Terguta is the youngest journalist awarded by the Press Club in Chisinau.
Right after his graduation he became the Journalist of the year 2006 in Moldova. He created the first journalism blog in Moldova and he won the Blog Section in the Webtop 2007 contest | read more…
Eric Dupin is a blogger, editor of digital content, and a consultant as well and he is editing blogs and sites for his own account. He lives in Lyon, France, and he manages two companies, Bloobox.net and DM2E Interactive | read more…
Dario Gallo is a journalist that worked for the Noticias, best known newsmagazine in Argentina. Starting 2008, he has been the general editor of Perfil.com. He is also one of the founders of the first Twitter community in Argentina | read more…
Pedja PUSELJA – Blogowski - After years spent as a webmaster and front-developer, he made a career-change and professionally dedicated himself to a personal passion: social media and online identity. He is probably one of the best twitter, video-blogging and IT evangelists on the territory of the former Yugoslavia | read more…
Wael Abbas is an internationally renowned Egyptian journalist, blogger and human rights activist who blogs at Misr Digital (Egyptian Awareness). CNN named him Middle East Person of the Year 2007 and he was considered one of the Most Influential People in the year 2006 by BBC | read more…
Matthias Lüfkens, social media architect at the World Economic Forum, aspires to inspire. After bringing Davos to the world for five years, he now brings the world to Davos through his innovative use of social media, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Wikipedia, Qik and Livestream included | read more…
Erkan Saka is a lecturer at the Public Relations Department in Istanbul Bilgi University. He has recently received his PhD degree in Anthropology at Rice University, Houston, TX on Turkish Journalism and European Union membership process. | read more…
Andrea Vascellari is a communicator currently founder and CEO of iTive.net, an international digital strategy consulting firm based in Finland. He is author of a highly influential blog and producer of VMC the Vascellari Media Channel.| read more…
Helge Fahrnberger is a blogger and entrepreneur in Vienna, Austria, mainly covering the impact of technology on society, politics and media. Helge was one of the initiators of “Grüne Vorwahlen” a grassroots movement that tried to open up the Austrian Green Party from outside using the power of the internet | read more…
Emin Huseynzade is a new media specialist and trainer who has worked for numerous Azerbaijani and international organizations. Emin is an organizer of 4 Barcamps in Azerbaijan and many new media events in Georgia | read more…
Michael Reuter is the co-founder and CEO of YiGG, a leading German social news community based in Munich. YiGG.de has about 800.000 unique visitors a month reading, discussing and publishing 500+ news per day | read more…
Tony Bowden runs international projects for mySociety, the non-profit organisation that created many of the best-known democracy websites in the UK, such as TheyWorkForYou, WhatDoTheyKnow, and FixMyStreet | read more…
Peter Stoykov – Longanlon is the author of kaka-cuuka.com – one of the most popular blogs in Bulgaria, famous for having a huge user comment feedback | read more…
Dobó Mátyás – Peer – is widely known and acknowledged Hungarian IT expert, entrepreneur and blogger, introduced nearly a dozen successful web services in Hungary and he’s leading one of the most successful Hungarian internet technology blog | read more…
Parvana Persiyani, co-founder of OL Media and Youth Rights Protection Movement - Parvana is involved in protection of violated rights of these two bloggers at the moment | read more…
