http://karlshamn.twestival.com Tweet. Meet. Give. Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:22:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Unfortunately Mattias Schertell had to cancel his speak about social media tomorrow, but there's no reason for making a sad face. We have secured a great replacement speaker: Tomas Wennström! Yes, THE Tomas Wennström who created Sweden Social Web Camp on Tjärö this summer. Tomas also runs the blog/podcast What's ... http://karlshamn.twestival.com/2009/09/09/tomas-wennstrom-speaking-at-twestival/ Twestival Karlshamn börjar synas mer och mer i media! Dels har vi en vacker banner i Commersen (tack igen för att ni sponsrar), med tillhörande omnämningar i artiklar och krönikor. Dels har vi fått en artikel i BLT och snart även i Sydöstran (bara i döda träd-versionerna än så länge). Även ... http://karlshamn.twestival.com/2009/09/09/twestival-i-media/ We are very proud to present the donated artworks by the artists Franco Costa, Anita Larsson and Lena Frank. They have been given to us completely for free with the hopes that they will help raise money for the Akvo Foundation. We have decided to auction the artwork off on Tradera. ... http://karlshamn.twestival.com/2009/09/08/art-auction-for-the-akvo-foundation/ The final details of the event have been decided and we have managed to put everything together into a programme for the evening. We begin at 17:00 with some live music, mingling and snacks. At 17:30 Gourmet Grön will start serving food for those who have bought such a ticket. When everyone ... http://karlshamn.twestival.com/2009/09/07/official-programme-released/ Tonight we are proud to present our joint project with the Akvo Foundation: an effort for safe drinking water and the empowering of women in Gimbichu Woreda, Ethiopia. See this short video presentation: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e1Oh_IXqio[/youtube] You can follow the project's status at the link above. As you can see, there's still around €4000 ... http://karlshamn.twestival.com/2009/09/04/safe-drinking-water-empowering-women-in-ethiopia/ We have now released tickets for the event. Buy them through Amiando. Thanks to NetPort we can offer tickets that include food and drink from Gourmet Grön. The number is limited, however, so get a ticket quickly if you want to be sure of getting something beyond snacks to eat. Some ticket ... http://karlshamn.twestival.com/2009/08/30/tickets-are-available-for-twestival-karlshamn/ Our new posters are printed and ready to be plastered to walls and bulletin boards around town. Design is by Fredrik with some help from the Twestival media kit. We would like to express a big thank you to Alltiprint for sponsoring us with free digital printing on nice coated paper. http://karlshamn.twestival.com/2009/08/29/posters-printed/ A big thank you to all our fans on Facebook! There are exactly 100 of you to be exact. This is the magic limit that allows you to create a custom URL for a Facebook fan page. You can find us on http://www.facebook.com/twestivalkarlshamn. Fan number 100 was Sofia Brändewall. Thank you Sofia for ... http://karlshamn.twestival.com/2009/08/26/custom-facebook-url/ Here's a video from Stockholm World Water Week where Akvo.org's Thomas Bjelkeman and Juerg Staudemann of UNDP discuss the world of water wikis. Akvo.org is the target of our donations, and water wiki is part of their work to spread knowledge about clean water through the world. Link: http://blip.tv/file/2497039 http://karlshamn.twestival.com/2009/08/21/a-video-discussion-on-water-wikis/ Thanks to the fantastic assistance of NetPort we have now secured a charity venue for september 10. We will be in the large hall called Deltat in the center of the main building at Östra Piren. Here's a map of the location. View a larger interactive map We really want to thank ... http://karlshamn.twestival.com/2009/08/20/we-have-secured-a-venue/