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"The blog is the best channel to get someone "Lina

E nterview to Fernando Candeias *, a prominent journalist Sports radio, which carries out its multimedia blog Informatica On-Line.

How did you decide to start your blog?
Informatica On-Line began on December 1, 2006. Completed the University and willing to translate into "somewhere" those things you have to say, I realized that a blog was the best channel to reach someone. At first the idea was to analyze or trassmistir those with internationally important news giving his own personal approach, ie removing all the vices that can have a news product that comes through. Over time the blog was running until I decided to give a broader approach to to reach from the tools provided by the Internet, to a larger venue. So I was adding videos, podcasts, photo albums, banners, widgets, google ads (Ad sense), statistical analysis (Analytics), published online (through Calameo), followers, Twitter, which is essential in today's journalism and daily updates which, over time, I increased the number of visits.

What motivates to take it forward?
I think the motivation comes from the vocation. You love to journalism and communication and blog, in this case, is a place to download everything that you perceive or, needs to transmit. I feel the commitment to maintain it for those who read the blog to be 1, 10, 500 or more. There is always someone that browsing, you can reach Informatica On-Line and the idea is not to go. Hence the diversity of subjects offered by the blog, it can be good (as one can get looking for different themes) and bad (because one does not go directly to Informatica On-Line to find something specific about a topic) ... my intention is to provide a magazine online, where one arrives and can "flip" a piacere taste and find a bit of everything.

How do you see the progress of sports blogs versus traditional media? I
still, at least in Argentina, there is a culture of information through a blog. There are lots of great sports blogs provide content hierarchy that you can not find in traditional media, but I think that has not yet managed to overcome that barrier of "credibility", as it somehow, you can have a blog. Many times you do not know who as the authors use pseudonyms, but with perseverance and updated content, a blog can get, little by little, a favorite of many users of the Internet and start being a channel of information on consumers of sports.

What did you learn to be blogger?
Phew ... Where to start! I think basically, you learn there are no barriers when communicating. You do not have the magnitude of places you can reach through search engines and also through social networks like Twitter, a tweet may promote a posting or subscribing to Tweet Feed automatically your Twitter followers can be updated regarding the contents of your blog. You learn to communicate in a new language that is used on the Internet, where the eye of the reader functions as a scanner and one, from writing, you have to give indicators to guide the content that you're transmitting these indicators ... are: bold, italics, colors, captions, photos, videos, graphics and hyperlinks, among other things. One also is receiving what blog readers look for the contents they provide, regardless of what each one offers. But no doubt, being a blogger learn step by step, post a comment and comment posting.

* Fernando Candeias is BA in journalism and sports journalist with extensive experience in many radios. He is also producer of Argentina's River "in Radio Argentina, among many professional activities. In 2006 he began his blog Informatica On-Line. Twitter: fcandeias

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Cevallos and a particular event

Lina H arie Cevallos, a prominent Colombian blogger living in Argentina, and promotion of a particular event called Piola Barcamp.

"The interesting thing is that Pio.la seek to reinvent the way today's events, using the integration of some web tools," says Lina Cevallos.

Piola What?
Pio.la is a virtual conference platform and open to Latin American innovators. We create events where anyone through online video (Streaming), you can register to perform their own live performances for 20 minutes.

Where did PiolaBarcamp?
The idea of \u200b\u200bPiolaBarcamp born after FOWA in Miami, when Cesar Salazar, Carlos Cobos, Mauricio Pastrana, Alejandro Corpeño, Roberto Hernan Aracena Brevé and met and saw the need to keep in contact so online. So I decided to create a space called Piola, name of the restaurant where they were. All put the money to buy the domain and created a wiki. On this very day it was decided that the meetings would be 23 of each month at 7:30 pm ET.

How was the Piola evolve?
The first edition was held on May 23, 2009, were used for different streaming channels like Ustream and livestreaming. From the beginning Hernan Aracena was the one who continued with the idea and then went Lina Ceballos, who support efforts to disseminate and promote the event. Since that there have been four editions which have involved hundreds of people in Latin America, who have been kept informed from the Wiki, Twitter account and Facebook page. That is, that in these meetings has remained the same philosophy of offline Barcamp carried out in the world, which proposes that any person can share their knowledge as an unconference.

What is new?
Next to the fifth edition, was the need to rethink PiolaBarcamp and make it a more friendly event for the audience. This will set PiolaLab, an experiment that brought together people interested in creating a platform called Pio.la. In this participated 10 people, who during the 5th and 6th of September, so online, participated in the first stage Pio.la creation and implementation of a business plan. This was followed by a second stage of completion, which involved only four people who currently are active members project.

Pio.la. Team The team is comprised of a group Piola four, current members and those who are responsible for the design, development, dissemination and management Pio.la.

Camilo Sanchez @ pollinoco linaceballos Lina Ceballos @ @ Hernan Aracena Aracena Francisco Rodríguez @ dgfrancisco

Also, there are six direct reports who are involved in the PiolaLab: Juan Guillermo

Gallego @ juanggallego
José Rojas @ joserojas
Arturo Garrido @ arturogarrido Albeiro Ochoa @ albeirochoa
Ivan Acosta Rubio
ivanacostarubio
@ @ aescallon Antonio Escallon
Cevallos
* Lina is also editor of Social Pulse . Sistemaslatam.com participates in and leads the group Social Media Entrepreneurs 2.0