BabelPost

By OLé on Sunday, November 9 2008, 18:14

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

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.

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.

Let’s get horizontal - make tagging your sport!

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

photo credits:
Naixn/flickr
Berlinale International Film Festival

Babelpost 1: end of summer

By OLé on Thursday, September 18 2008, 15:10

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.