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Cafebabel.com summer digest 2010

Hello fellow babelians,

How is summer going? Are you road-tripping around Europe or rather enjoying the beautiful concept of staycation?

Well, since you're here, let's go over some of the most popular articles of Cafebabel this summer. A pretty heterogeneous list, if you ask me.

1. Youth in Exarchia, Athens: faces of ‘700 euro generation’ (photo-gallery)

2. Naked scans at Amsterdam airport

3. Teenage oral sex anti-smoking campaign shocks France (photo-gallery)

4. Contraception: buying the morning after pill in Europe

5. German nudists off Poland’s Baltic beaches!

In unrelated news, a new babelblog has just opened, if you're interested by the China-EU relationship and want to contribute, join the Facebook group!

And don't forget to take a look at our new project: the Orient-Express Reporter. We're sending off babelians around the Balkans, starting October 2010, this could be you!

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Wednesday, August 11 2010 By jean - BabelPost

Babelpost n°4: cafebabel's weekly must-read

Hello everyone! The Babelpost is your weekly cafebabel.com newsletter with fresh info on babelblogs and community stuff. Read it. It’s made for you!

What blogs did you read most? (from 06/14 to 06/24)

1. Brussels
Thanks to their intern and their motivated team, Brussels is producing great content. Check out their series of articles about typical Brussels places to eat, rest, drink... You won't see any tourists there!

2. Berlin
Let's face it, their 2nd place is mostly due to our all-time best article.

3. Eurogeneration

4. Paris

5. Arirusila

6. Strasbourg

7. Lyon
Cléo has brought the Lyon cityblog back to life. She's chatting about politics in France among other fascinating topics.

8. Budapest

9. Wonderland

10. Athens

What articles were the most successful?

1. Why German men don't flirt
This is our all time best. If you haven't stumbled upon it yet, it is about time!

2. Discover Brussels like a local

3. Old Vilnius anew
Great style for great stories. Get into the shoes of a Vilnius city dweller.

The blog of the week is Paris!

In a couple months, the new team managed producing interesting and diverse content and they are now up to the 4th most read blog. The whole project is really exciting, get in touch if you are around!

Cheers and see you next week,

Jean, your community manager

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Thursday, June 24 2010 By jean - BabelPost

BabelPost n°3

Hello everyone! The Babelpost is your weekly cafebabel.com newsletter with fresh info on babelblogs and community stuff. Read it. It’s made for you!

What blogs did you read most? (from 05/13 to 05/23)

1. Brussels
New top blog this week! A few days away from the Belgian European Presidency, this is no surprise!

2. Berlin
A great Cafebabel debate just took place in Berlin, some stories to come through under short notice.

3. Coffeefactory
the editor's blog is still a busy place. Keep getting some fresh news from us!

4. Athens
Have a look at Elina's shoutout and react!

5. Arirusila

6. Strasbourg

7. Eurogeneration

8. Paris

9. Sofia

10. Budapest

What articles were the most successful?

1. Jean-Luc Godard cancells his much anticipated appearance to Cannes following problems of "Greek type"

2. Boy + Girl = Gender Equality. A great initiative by the Comission explained.

3. Three cafebabel.com correspondents win European Young Journalist Award 2010

The blog of the week is Strasbourg. It's mostly in french but they feature videos and great focus on the European news for a special "mois de l'Europe".

Cheers and see you next week,

Jean, your community manager

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Monday, May 24 2010 By jean - BabelPost

Babelpost n°2

Hello everyone! The Babelpost is your weekly cafebabel.com newsletter with fresh info on babelblogs and community stuff. Read it. It’s made for you!

What blogs did you read most?

1. Arirusila is still squatting the first place. Great focus on Croatia this week.

2. Brussels moves up to second place, due to the recent burning news.

3. Strasbourg

4. Berlin

5. Athens moves up as well! Greece has been in the eye of the hurricane for a while now. Great coverage!

6. Eurogeneration

7. Paris is active again! Contact them! It's still time to get involved!

8. Budapest

9. Alice in Wonderland

10. Sofia

What articles were the most successful?

1. Deeply ashamed.... Elina, our greek babelian, speaks her heart as Greece faces a tough time.

2. Why the greek public service operates against the laws of the nature

3. Petit manifeste en faveur de la contradiction |FR| Europe is filled with contradictions, are they forever?

The Blog of the week is obviously from Athens.

It is incredibly interesting to follow the events from the inside! Right as I'm writing, a demonstration turned bad and a bank got set on fire. Follow the events day by day!

Cheers and see you next week,

Jean, your community manager

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Wednesday, May 5 2010 By jean - BabelPost

Babelpost 2

Babelpost is the monthly cafebabel.com newsletter with fresh info on babelblogs, forums and community stuff. Read it. It’s made for you!

Clue of the month: More clicks for your babelblog

All content on cafebabel.com is linked by keyword tags. When you tag your blog posts:

It will give your article and your Babelblog more visibility
It will make your content ‘googleable’ for search engines
It will link your babelblog horizontally with all related subjects on cafebabel.com

How do I tag?

Before you can tag a post, you have to create it, and ‘save’ it at least once. When you edit your post, look on the right column for cafebabel tags. There are several kinds of tags, related to geography, directories and subjects. All of them are identified by colorful symbols. If you don’t find a tag that corresponds to your article you can create it yourself. The symbol will be a red mark.

In order to bring up a post on our special site dedicated to the EU parliamentary elections www.EUdebate2009.eu, please use one of the twelve EUdebate tags. Your article will pop-up automatically on the EUD main page as well as on cafebabel.com.

Let’s get horizontal - make tagging your sport!

babelsnapper: calling photographers

Writers, translators, local city teams and bloggers have shaped cafebabel.com over the last seven years. Now we open a new chapter with the contributions from photographers. Arguably the most babelian of all contributors, they catch in one visual image where parts of Europe are today, move more often beyond invisible borders and speak in one language that doesn’t need translating.

Take pictures for us on mission in Seville, Vilnius, Cologne, Lyon, Budapest, Prague, Paris …

You and your lens can be going on a feature mission with us in 2009 with one of our six editors and three other journalists. Our project “EU Debate On the Ground” takes place monthly and is hosted by a cafebabel.com city team. Cafebabel.com pays your travel, accommodation and fixing costs for an exclusive article to be published in a special city edition in the magazine

Like the gastronomy section? The politics section? The world section? Culture, society, interviews, sports ...

Got an idea for a topic worth photographing? Get in touch: editors@cafebabel.com

What's hot: cafebabel.com at the Berlin Film Festival

Every month, the famous cafebabel.com editorial mission ‘EU debate on the ground’ sends three journalists, one editor and one photographer to a European city for on-scene reporting and a live debate. In February, we propose an extra special edition from the Berlinale, the Berlin Film Festival. Are you a film buff ready to live, drink and eat movies for ten days and share your experience live on cafebabel.com? Are you free from 5 – 15 February 2009? Send your application (cv + cover letter) to ole@cafebabel.com by 21 November. Previous experience in film and journalism is very welcome.

Your Community Ole
(On Her Majesty's Special Service)
ole@cafebabel.com

photo credits:
Naixn/flickr
Berlinale International Film Festival

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Sunday, November 9 2008 By OLé - BabelPost

Babelpost 1: end of summer

Babelpost is the monthly cafebabel.com newsletter with fresh info on babelblogs, forums and community stuff. Read it. It’s made for you!

Hello freshly tanned Babelians and all those still searching for the summer sun!
It’s the same routine year in, year out: go back to school or back to work after a too short summer. Eventually you’ll get used again dragging you out-of bed, obeying your alarm clock. But hey, this year it won’t be the same...

What’s on: big shakeup at cafebabel.com

Good-bye to Jean-Séb

First the bad news: your beloved community editor Jean-Séb has left for new East European adventures and you have to get used to a new name – it’s me! – not easy to pronounce: Ole. But that’s about the only thing you could be sad about. Cafebabel.com is constantly increasing its readership and YOU are the major part of it. We believe in participatory journalism and give you the opportunity to express yourself.

Clue of the month: Create a babelblog

Want to comment on the Italian President recording a CD with love songs for Christmas (yes, Berlusconi sings himself)? Or why not tell the world which hopes you have for the staring Champions League? You could as well talk about the strange country that you explore as an Erasmus student this semester. Everything is possible on a babelblog and on top we offer to the polyglot babelians a platform in several language versions.

Want to create a Babelblog? Just choose a name for your blog and tell me in which languages you want to publish. Your address will be http://YOURBLOGNAME.cafebabel.com

Mail to: blog@cafebabel.com

Questions? Remarks? Feel free to leave a comment below!

So long

Ole
(The new community guy)

Read in the babelpost 2: how to use comments and forums.

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Thursday, September 18 2008 By OLé - BabelPost