The Event
The time has come for people all around the world to be exposed to the passion and talent Greek people share for social media. There's now the opportunity for bloggers, podcasters and vidcasters from all five continents to get together and discuss what they love the most, on a small beautiful Greek island.
The Camp will take place on May 31st and June 1st 2008 at the breathtaking Ios Palace Hotel - scheduled during the weekend for your convenience -. You can book your tickets for Hellenic Seaways fast ferry online. The trip from Piraeus to Ios takes less than five hours and tickets for a one-way trip start from €53.
Here is a suggestion for one of the many ways you can schedule your trip:
Each Greek Blogger Camp attendee will need to pay a €30 registration fee for the event. In addition, accommodation, daily breakfast and WiFi Internet access at the Ios Palace Hotel is available to attendees for a special rate of €80 a night. Be sure to book soon as space on the fast ferry and hotel is limited!
The People
Greek Blogger Camp is bringing together amazingly talented people with one goal in heart and mind. Passion for innovation, creativity and social media. You'll get the chance to meet and talk with great people such as Matt Mullenweg, Timothy Ferriss and more.
- Matt Mullenweg
- Mr. Wordpress
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According to Google, he is the #1 most important Matt in the world but he believes he's just a kid born and raised in Houston, Texas. He writes code, prose, and music when he doesn't take pictures.
He's the founding developer of WordPress and founder of Automattic, the business behind WordPress.com and Akismet.
- Timothy Ferris
- Mr. 4 hour
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Author, lecturer, public speaker, blogger and "productivity guru", best known for his book The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
If Outsourcing Life does sound pretty exciting, Tim knows how to do it when he's not CEOing BrainQUICKEN.
- Panayiotis Vryonis
- Greek Podfather
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Social media consultanting, blogging and podcasting are few of the things vrypan deals with when he doesn't get his hands "dirty" with coding and open source projects. He is known as the first Greek podcaster and one of the Greek blogosphere's opinion leaders (accept that with grain of salt or two).
- Vasilis Sotiropoulos
- Information society lawyer & blogger
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Administrator of elawyer.blogspot.com, since 2005 with 4 published books on data protection and access to information legislation.
Leader of the Data&Protection law office, which deals with cases on intellectual property, copyrights, personal data, access to documents and freedom of expression.
- Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten
- The Next Web dude
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One of the white suit men behind The Next Web, a Serial Internet Entrepreneur and a blogger. Boris is always in the mood for web talking and blogging but most importantly sharing his passion in starting companies, inventing innovative technology and coming up with new ideas.
- Metaxia Kladis
- Cosmo blogging
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PR Professional, Cosmopolitan editor and blogger, Metaxia Kladis performs all three roles with the same passion for communication and writing. What she tries never to forget is that it all started out as fun!
- Yiorgos Adamopoulos
- The Hawk is blogging
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Founding member of the NTUA-NOC team, now flown elsewhere, member of every "old" Greek online community known to man kind and guinea pigs... but there is a little something about the blogs.
- Fotis Draganidis
- The Microsoft dude
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Working for Microsoft as an Academic Programs Manager, Fotis knows how to blog since 2003 on one of the first Greek corporate blogs. He sure has some useful Hints and Tips to share.
The Location
Greek Blogger Camp will take place at the fabulous Ios Palace hotel. Placed right off the golden sand beaches of Mylopotas, the hotel offers a stunning view of the island and ensures a comfortable and relaxing experience for all attendees. WiFi access is available for free in the pool area and in the conference hall.
Fill the form below, if you want to participate to Greek Blogger Camp!
