Global Voices was born in 2004 during a conference of bloggers that took place at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School, from an idea of Ethan Zuckerman, co-founder of Tripod, Rebecca MacKinnon, former CNN correspondent in China .

“Giving voice to those who have no voice”, this is the motto of the citizen journalism project which has promoted Global Voices since 2004. Their slogan alone is enough to portray how serious the commitment of the team of bloggers and translators is against global society, it is a complex endeavor  and to try to practice it  every day is a continuing challenge.

Global Voices is one of the most interesting 

After publishing the statistics of Qbr Magazine, some Ciaoblog readers have contacted us , inquiring about data concerning the whole social network. To the request of publishing Qbr data, we  obediently respond with this post.
And besides being obedient we are also proud of the results achieved.
Qbr.it is proof that a product that is born naturally limited to  a given territory, is bound to spread to new markets if the formula works and if it works well for that  particular goal. Thus, even if the community has its roots in Parthenopean youth, this social network is becoming a italian reality, with subscribers from throughout the boot, and especially in Lazio, Lombardy and Emilia

A few days after the launching of Powerset, the semantic search engine for Wikipedia (but not only) we interviewed Lorenzo Thione, co-founder and product architect of Powerset, the Californian company which has achieved this important technological innovation in the field of Semantic Search Engines.

Before going into the  interview in which Lorenzo Thione explains in detail the work behind Powerset, how it runs and how it can improve the experience of online search users, I would like to briefly introduce his compelling career,  for  very specific reasons.

First of all, Lorenzo Thione, as you can guess from the name, is Italian and therefore doubly deserves our attention, because it shows what our compatriots

Qbr.it changes. In form and in substance. Together with a new platform that will give our users new and more entertaining  features, the social network gets a new name and logo, specially designed for us by Sergio Esposito, art director of Nascar (the  Neapolitan Communication Company than ran the portal until 2007) and of infamous creativity.
It is in this context that Ciao People arises, the new identity of a community that already exists but will live through  extraordinary changes that make it more appealing, comfortable, and most of all bigger and more engaging.
We chose a name that was able to represent  the typical values that emphasize the concept of social network (socializing, friendship, community)

Thanks to blogs and social networking, Web 2.0 has made a two-fold transformation: not only has it changed the relationship between the media and the public which went from being  mere users to  active contributers but also,  it has allowed companies to have a more direct approach with customers. The newest frontier of marketing, conversational marketing represents the right tool for companies to take advantage of the “social” characteristics of the web and start a dialogue with consumers. The interview with Lois Kelly, author of the book “Beyond Buzz… The Next Generation of Word-of-Mouth Marketing” enlightens us on the enormous opportunities that conversational marketing offers companies allowing them to speak with