Geek Meet Craiova #2
Posted on: 2 December, 2008
Last Friday i was in Craiova attending the local Geek Meet. Alin Mechenici did a great job organizing the event and i had a great time with the local developers there.
I had planned a 10 min speech about the trends in online marketing for 2009 which ended up being a 45 minutes question and answers spree. Most of the topics concerned display ads, advertising using blogs and the Romanian banner industry. You can see my presentation embedded (sorry i didn’t have time to translate):
One interesting thing i saw there was that leaving aside the great projects and great people working in / with online there, they lack team spirit. In my opinion they have one chance: to grow the local market and promote Internet in Craiova by any means. In stead they fought for almost 2 hours about who has the biggest / nicest/ most visited site or blog. They are very passionate but they have to learn to work together.
Also speaking were Cosmina Stefanache, Cornel Mitroi (who really needs an investor for his project 😉 ) and Chris Heilman.
5 Responses to "Geek Meet Craiova #2"
2 December, 2008 at 3:27 am
You had a great presentation. Looking forward to meet you again. Maybe at NetCamp ?
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tudor.totolici 
2 December, 2008 at 3:11 am
Tudor ,
You ain’t getting a team without a team leader right? Most of the developers you are talking about are also bloggers. Blogging (especially when it’s pushed to the limits by other conditions besides own passion to write) will always give a person a feeling of being an opinion leader.
Most of those people see themselves thinking outside the box forgetting the big box encasing their boxes.
What I see best for everybody is to have a “higher authority” getting to channel their talent and skills towards a “greater good” 🙂
But some people have already thought of that haven’t they?