Creating a Community for the Southeastern Europe Web

We are all well aware that e-business, e-commerce, social media marketing and web entrepreneurship in Southeastern Europe are somewhat behind on those in other regions where the Web is more developed and its use more common. With new technological developments in the region, now is the opportunity to catch up with those regions. As most uses of the Web are still in development worldwide, many of us are in some way professionally invoved on the Web tend to follow those developments on internationally recognized websites, blogs, seminars and conferences. These are great sources of information and opportunities to learn about our specific niches and the Web in general. They do not, however, provide insight into the Southeastern European markets and the implementation of these new practices and ideas to our respective and joined markets.

We intend to make Serbia Today a place where web entrepreneurs from Southeastern Europe will gather to share their experiences and learn from each other. Of course, plans are well under way for the SEEWeb Conference 2010 where we expect to do just that live and with local and international speakers, but the Serbia Today team would like to get started on creating a community before then. As in – right now. From now on this site is reserved for news about past and upcoming relevant conferences in the region and translation of local blogs into the English language, so we can all reach a wider audience and break down the slight but significant language barriers between SouthEatstern European countries.

Our team speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Dutch, German, Italian and French and we will be translating from all those languages. We once again ask you to join us in these efforts by either using the #SEEWeb hashtag when posting articles having to do with relevant Southeastern European subjects on Twitter, sending us links to such articles either through any of our contact channels, or by e-mailing summarized translations of articles from your native language to English with a link to the source article (you will be given credit for the contribution). Let’s all get to work and contribute to getting to know the SEEWeb region better!