July 05, 2007

Blogakademy first international tentative

Posted at 02:05 | | 14 Comments

I have started an experiment on my french blog:

-open it to guest authors
-I just asked the candidates to post a video to introduce themselves and explain what they would like to post about
-I gathered a jury of top french blogger friends (there are many other french blogger who are not there too) and a few non bloggers too
-I gave a week to gather the videos, then they will post during two weeks on my blog
-the jury will decide the winner and I will give 500€ to the winner as a coupon on Amazon, paypal, a sexshop, etc... whatever the winer prefers :)

it seems to start very well as as of today there are about 15 videos of candidates and many very very very funny.

So I thought I would try it international too, but I will need the support of friends visible bloggers outside France, as my blog alone in english is a start but will not be enough I am sure. The idea should be a kind of a common recipient for the candidates, perhaps a new blog (I registered blogakademy.com for example :) that would get some support from you and the jury to get started. Let's see...

So let's start by gathering the jury ! Who should be on the jury for your country ? Let me add a few friends names on my mind and see if they accept... Sure, I forgot many very good bloggers and friends, it's late in Paris, so forgive me and email me at blog (at) loiclemeur.com or just comment... (I will update this post as the jury is formed in each country, let's gather say 10 people per Country ?)

Well, just let me know if you're interested by the idea, and willing to help, that would be a good start, and don't blame me for not being perfect on the below list, just trying... :)

France

Ouriel Ohayon
Romain Hatchuel
Jean-Yves Stervinou
Thierry Crouzet
Laurent Gloaguen
Vinvin
Nicolas Vanbremeersch
Eric Dupin
Thomas Crampton
Jeff Clavier
Rodrigo Sepulveda

Tentative work in progress dream jury for other Countries (help !) I know I know I forgot many people and friends, give me some time and help ! And also, many will be too busy and will not accept let's see what happens...

U.K.
Andrew Carton
Adriana Cronin Lucas
Dennis Howlett (even though Dennis lives in Spain)
James Cox (OK)
Ben Hammersley
...

Spain
Martin Varsavksy
Anil de Melo
Enrique Dans
Julio Alonso
Jose del Moral
...

USA
Jason Calacanis
Robert Scoble
Michael Arrington
Om Malik
Jeff Jarvis
David Weinberger
Doc Searls

Denmark
Thomas Madsen

...

Finland
Marko Ahtissari

Jyri Engestrom
...

Germany
Heiko Hebig
Robert Basic
Nico Lumma
Felix Petersen

...

Sweden
Ola Ohlvarsson

...

Italy
Paolo Valdemarin

...

The Netherlands
Guido Van Nispen

...

Eastern Europe (I know that sucks but I don't know enough people there either :)
Lee Wilkins (Czech Republic)

...

Middle East & Africa

Israel
Netanel Jacobsson
Yossi Vardi

Iran
Hossein Derakshan

...

Asia (let's pick the Continent for now I don't have enough friends there !)
Joi Ito
Yat Siu
...

to be continued... work in progress (I will also add the links)...

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Hej Loïc,

I am very sorry that my first post did not seem to work. I tried commenting using a Nokia E61i - apparently not a good idea.

Here is what I originally wanted to post:

In addition to the nominees for Germany I propose that you ask:

a) Klaus Eck
b) Stefan Niggemeier
c) Katharina Borchert aka Lyssa
d) Timo Heuer (yes, I know he is only 15 years old but I believe he is able to accept and handle this challanging job)

Again, sorry for the first empty posting.

Kind regards,
Oliver

btw: did I already mention that the blogakademy-idea rocks?!

Oliver Berger, July 05, 2007 at 02:39

Hey nice idea!

What about Canada? ;)

ilias, July 05, 2007 at 06:28

Wouldn't mind to be on the jury for the Netherlands :)

Others to be considered for the Netherlands:
- Heleen van Oord (dqa.nl)
- Lianne van der Kruk (ilsemedia.nl)
- Daniëlle Jansen (amazingg.nl)
- Raymond Spanjar (Hyves.nl)
- Paul Molenaar (Ilse.nl)
- Igor Beuker (lacomunidad.nl)
- Marco Derksen (upstream.nl - marketingfacts.nl)

Erno Hannink, July 05, 2007 at 06:59

gimme an 'm'! :)

how about the following people for Germany:
Nicole Simon, Vasco Sommer, Don Dahlmann?

Nico Lumma, July 05, 2007 at 07:00

I am from Canada and would like to do a video in at least nine languages on the need for a paradigm shift in our approach to language learning, or should I stay in just one or two. Francais bien sur, et peut-etre quelques langues asiatiques ainsi que l'anglais.

Steve Kaufmann, July 05, 2007 at 08:08

Why don't you add Luca Conti and Tony Siino from Italy?

Stefano Baldini, July 05, 2007 at 14:12

What a great idea that this International Blogging Idol ;-) It could be the start of an international network of bloggers. Very smart, Loic.

I second the previous comments from the Canadians. You need a Canadian contest as well.

For the American contest, how about inviting Shel Holtz and Steve Rubel?

And, if you ever do a contest for bloggers in higher education, I'm in as a jury member.

Good luck.

Karine Joly, July 05, 2007 at 14:49

Just a small remark on your English spelling: in English all nationalities and languages are CAPITALIZED: French, European, Spanish, etc. It just hurts my eyes when I see "european" in your LeWeb 3.0 pdf.

Marcos Martinez Sancho, July 05, 2007 at 15:34

Very good idea, but what about Latin America?

Francesco Cardi, July 05, 2007 at 19:51

Sure - go for it. In Canada, I'd nominate Neil MacIntyre.

Dennis Howlett, July 06, 2007 at 20:44

How about Hugh MacLeod, Johnnie Moore and Alex Bellinger for UK

Dennis Howlett, July 06, 2007 at 20:49

thanks for your positive comments ! Nico I added your "m" sorry about this.

All suggestions great, I wrote the post very fast so forgot many people.

Look forward to a second pass soon, and I'll launch it, I think we can do something really cool

Thanks, friends

Loic, July 06, 2007 at 23:29

What about Belgium ?

I would suggest Damien of bloggingthenews.info and Monique of webatou.be

Ploum, July 27, 2007 at 17:02

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