World Blogging Forum
November 9-12, 2009
Event agenda
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Monday | November 9, 2009
• Guests’ arrival
• Hotel check-in
• Sightseeing tour – Bucharest
20:00 – Networking Event & Welcome Party for VIP GUESTS
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Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | Palace of Parliament | Human Rights Hall
The Palace of Parliament will be open for guests’ and press access starting 8:30 at the C1 entrance
09:30 – 10:30 – The official start – up of the conferences
Opening speeches:
• M. Traian Băsescu, President of Romania;
• M. Daniel Buda, President of the Judicial Commission, Chamber of Deputies;
• M. Gabriel Bădescu, President of the Agency for Governmental Strategies;
• M. Catalin Marinescu, President of ANCOM;
• Mihaela Drăghici, President ASLS Romania;
• Dl. Loic LeMeur, guest speaker, blogger and entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Seesmic, founder and host of the LeWeb conferences(Paris).
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 13:00
Moderator: Dumitru Borţun – President of the Honorific Jury, Romanian Association of Public Relations
I. Blogs and citizen journalism
The influence of blogs on the civil society | Standing up for the community
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch break
14:00 – 16:00
II. E-Democracy | Blogs and freedom of expression
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00
II. E-Democracy | Blogs and freedom of expression
18:30 – 20:00 – Sightseeing tour
20:00 – Traditional Romanian evening: „Caru’ cu Bere”
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Wednesday | November 11, 2009 | Palace of Parliament | Human Rights Hall
The Palace of Parliament will be open for guests’ and press access starting 8:30 at the C1 entrance
Moderator : Dorina Guţu – Conf. Univ. Dr. Faculty of Communications and Public Relations, National School of Political and Administrative Studies
09:30 – 11:00
III. The future of blogging – What’s next?
Business and Corporate Blogging | How to Monetize Your Online Media | Social Software – Real-time Web | Online Advertising | Blogs and Education – new skills for the new world (Using New Media to Help Teachers and Students Achieve Excellence) | Behind the Scenes – blogging and new media
11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00
III. The future of blogging – What’s next?
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch break
14:30 – 16:00
III. Online Journalism
Ethics | Rules | Self-regulation
16:30 – 18:00
VI. The influence of blogs on the civil society
New media & renewable energy – using blogging to build a self-sustainable world | The importance of blogs for the governmental organizations | Ethics & responsibility – growing a healthy global community | Blogging and global politics – building a better world
18:00 – 19:00
Coffee Round – up
“Bucharest Global Blogging Manifest” – The first blogging constitution
Guests will have to reach a series of conclusions regarding the aspects of blogging previously brought into discussion at the debates.
They will draw and publicly release a global declaration of the principles of the online journalism, a constitution of internet freedom, to which bloggers from all over the world should adhere. „Bucharest Global Blogging Manifest” will launch a new chapter for the internet users.
20:00 – Open Networking Event & Party at the “Press Café” – VIP Guests, Romanian Internet Entrepreneurs, Bloggers and Journalists
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Thursday | November 12, 2009
NETWORKING BREAKFAST for VIP Guests
Guests’ departure
- please note that this agenda might suffer changes during the event – thank you for understanding -
