November 2006

Andrey Golub

I am very happy to confirm it's becoming a usual agenda for the most unplanned meetings of the Org-Team of MilanIN, that somebody from the Club Members invites one/few MilanIN co-founders to present his/her company, some essential product/service they sell, and also to propose the partnerships for MilanIN!

Yesterday night it was my big pleasure to meet Alfonso Mariniello and to hear his idea about how we could fortify MilanIN's Marketing group with a new platform for newsletter/ e-mailing campaign, feed-back collecting, etc. I think we've already achieved an agreement and probably will present you soon this important change in the MilanIN Org-Team's life.

Thank you Alfonso for your initiative! I hope it will be the great example for the other Club Members of what the real Club-spirit means!

Everybody: Come to MilanIN, contact one of co-founders or Org-Team Members, or directly MilanIN President Pier Carlo Pozzati, if you think you or your company has a service/product/yourself that could be useful for the Club's activity. We'll speak and define how the Club could “pay-it-back” to you!

LET'S MAKE MILANIN SERVICE BETTER, ALL TOGETHER NOW !

Keywords: Andrea Falzin, Marketing Group, MilanIN, business partnership, Alfonso Mariniello

Andrey Golub

Few days ago I've got this invitation via e-mail:
sei invitato al BLOODY WEDNESDAY: la festa dei donatori di sangue offerta da COMPANY_X. Ci troveremo GIORNO_X dalle ore 21:00 presso LUOGO_X.

STAMPA QUESTO INVITO NOMINATIVO E CONSEGNALO ALL’INGRESSO: avrai diritto all’ingresso gratuito per te e una seconda persona da te accompagnata.

programma della serata:
tra-ta-ta
Ti aspettiamo… e porta con te un amico che vuole diventare donatore!!!
Well, I will come there for sure! Because I am a regular blood donor so why to not meet the others :). But first of all because it seems to be really funny- a huge amount of donors put together for a night party :=) Also their “bring a friend with you”, repeated two times, and the second times they stress “a friend who is gonna become donor”. The question is: to become donor RIGHT THERE ON THE PARTY? :=)
Does not it remain you anything? ;) That's the point, “Blade- the night patrol”. Hope to meet there nice vampires and, if so much lucky, also W. Snipes (he is my favorite afro-american actor!)

Andrey Golub

I think Marco Marzagalli is “the most concrete” of the others MilanIN Org-Team Members, and he is also one of the few people I know in Italy, that are not only able to make born some new ideas (most Italians are great to invent the things!), but also to bring the dreams to life!

This time however Marco has surprised me, and that was a very pleasant surprise...

We're since recently discussing to introduce an ethics and behavioral policy for MilanIN Club, and a day ago Marco told us “give me one day and I'll come back with a draft/vision of that document”. The first nice thing was that somebody has finally taken initiative to “try to realize this idea” (not an easy one!), and also because having promised to come back soon with a draft, the same evening there was ready an article from Marco!

I AM PROUD TO WORK IN THE SAME TEAM WITH MARCO!
The same is true about the most MilanIN co-founders and important Org-Team Members, but this particular fanfare is dedicated to Marco Marzagalli :=)

The important point is that I do not pretend to introduce now here the “MilanIN ethics manifesto” (as I liked to call the first draft of the future MilanIN behavioral and ethics policy), since the project is still under heavy discussions and also because it's not my creature.

Keywords: Marco Marzagalli, MilanIN Ethics Manifesto

Andrey Golub

I think it was always one of the biggest shame for Italy in respect of emmigrants! The missed human rights that will be probably given back now to the people "attending the renewal of their permit-of-stay document"?

 
Direttiva del Viminale
Il permesso è valido fino al rinnovo!
Chi ha presentato domanda conserva tutti i diritti di un immigrato regolare. Mai più "dannati del cedolino"

...
Quelli che finora erano i "dannati del cedolino", potranno finalmente cambiare lavoro, stipulare un contratto d'affitto, prendere la patente, tornare in patria e poi rientrare in Italia, insomma fare tutto quello che era loro concesso prima di presentare quella maledetta domanda di rinnovo e non preoccuparsi più di quanto tempo ci metterà la Questura a sbrigare la loro pratica.
...

 

Keywords: rinnovo del permesso di soggiorno, permit of stay renewal

Andrey Golub

Yesterday night, me, Michael and Pier Carlo had a meeting with an important MilanIN Member, the proven expert around Web-TV technologies Amit Mendelsohn. We were speaking about how to finally realize the dream of MilanIN President, to implement the complex organizational and technological project that we call internally MilanIN-TV.

It's not yet the time to share details of the MilanIN-TV Project, you'll see it all yourself quite soon. We are sure that with MilanIN-TV the Club will become even much popular (famous? :lol:) in Italy and outside.

Why we believe it will be possible? That's easy- because we have a great Team within the Club! That's because we have our President that has always the great dreams only :=), because there is Michael and me with the years of experience around IPTV (that's in fact a much heavy technology and business model than WebTV !), of course because we now have Amit on board together with his technical/business expertise, and also we have Venanzio- the VP of MilanIN that's a “traditional” TV content producer/owner/provider in his recent past.
Also for sure it's because we have the great auditory to work for- The MilanIN Business Club!

Well, now the biggest concern for MilanIN becomes our PERMANENT and properly equipped office location (meeting rooms, Internet access, etc). Nobody of us has the intention to be married forever with the Pacino Cafe, the great place for aperitif for us but this could not be an office at all. So any ideas ARE WELCOMED! ;)

Keywords: Andrey Golub, IPTV, Live Channels, Michael Tabolsky, MilanIN, MilanIN-TV, Pier Carlo Pozzati, Venanzio Camarra, VoD, Web-TV, WebTV, broadcast, videowebgate, Amit Mendelsohn

Andrey Golub

A very nice, funny and I believe useful presentation titled “Passion at work”, given to me by Alessandro as his feed-back to my recent “Looking for another job” article on MilanIN's Forum ;)

I found it very interesting, and also the other advices from Alessandro for how to find for a “job of my dream”...

Andrey Golub

Mi sembra una curva nuova ed interessante. Skype (+FON) in un’offerta natalizia: "telefono WiFi, la loro LaFonera, 500 minuti di SkypeOut e 12 mesi di segreteria telefonica" a 139 €.

La notizia dal Blog di Stefano Vitta, qui

Keywords: Skype, Stefano Vitta, wifi, FON

Andrey Golub

The last Monday Alex, recently joined MilanIN Community, was taking some pictures during the event of self-presentation of Vittorio Orefice, and now we have his first trial artistic photos in our Gallery. HERE.

There are few pictures (for the first time) but I was not expecting from Alex many but “easy” ones, since he is not a photographer but an art-professional. I believe the next time the things will be done even better.

Bravo Alex!

Keywords: Alexey Pivivarov, MilanIN Gallery, Vittorio Orefice, photos, self-presentation, Alex

Andrey Golub

It's such a pleasure to check the value of the counter of MilanIN Members on our Home Page :) We're 599 and it longs for 3 days already, but the previous 99 members (after the “500 members!” limit and news article) MilanIN has picked up in less than 2 month!

I believe it's thanks to the great work of Pier Carlo, Andrea and Marco. I hope that tomorrow the "lucky" 600-th Member will join! ;)

CONGRATULATIONS to everybody in the Club!

Keywords: Andrea Falzin, Pier Carlo Pozzati, Marco Marzagalli

Andrey Golub

Finally Marco M. has updated his Linkedin profile, he added the MilanIN position so I could submit my endorsement to him. I spoke several times with M. about this issue, and he was always ready to do the update but... ;) Now he is on-line and I was absolutely happy to say my thanks to Marco for have been with us, and to wish him Good Luck with ZurichIN!

Tieni duro, Marco! Svizzera ha bisogno di te :)

Keywords: Marco Marzagalli, MilanIN, ZurichIN, LinkedIN

Andrey Golub

Pier Carlo found it so I decided to check if it's useful. Probably upcoming.org it's just somebody's dream to become an important Events registry? However, let's try and see if this could work for MilanIN.

I've registered our next Social Networking Event, the next “Monday Evening with MilanIN Member”, this time with Luca Zambrelli. Here is the event on the upcoming.org: http://upcoming.org/event/128791/

Let's see what will happen ;)

Keywords: Luca Zambrelli, MilanIN, Social Networking, upcoming.org, Milan

Andrey Golub

I am very happy that Michael has found yesterday a piece of free time to fix a small bug we had with WYSIWYG editor, used to write the Blog, editing MilanIN Member's Profile and etc (all elgg-related stuff).

Now all RTF/HTML magic works, so everyone is re-invited to fill the profile and to write the Blog! ;)надо

Keywords: Member's Profile, Michael, MilanIN, elgg, Blog

Andrey Golub

http://www.godeltech.com/ 

I really appreciate the new web look of Godel Technologies, just have a look: it has a slye, it's sexy, well structured but not too much boring as the other "structured" sites of Software Services suppliers...

Well, one of the nice things is that now everyone curious to know "why Godel?" could have the complete explanation found right there.

P.S. As the incoming stuff: there will be soom written few nice words also about me ;) 

Keywords: Godel, Godel Technologies, Godel Technologies Europe Ltd, http://www.godeltech.com/, GTE

Andrey Golub

The last Monday there was the “full house” at Pacino Cafe, because of the famous speaker, Club Member presenting his life-story and working projects, Sergio Saibene.

The subject of discussion could not attract attention, so lots (really lots!) of Members have come. Those people were not disappointed I am sure,- it's also because of the talent of Sergio to make interesting and easy-to-listen presentations, explain “on the fingers” very serious things...

You feel quickly that Sergio is the man of great experience, he was telling to us while smiling, that all Business Plan building rules we study at MBA are for our Professors only :), and no one reads these “details” to decide if to give you money or not... And the stuff like that, you'll never hear it at a University or read in a classical book of Finance Management.

I was impressed with the numbers of “hints from personal experience” that Sergio has shared with MilanIN Members, it's everything as a massive attack of important information, each phrase could be written to a good book for novice and dreamers to find Investors :)

Well, I wish we have many other such interesting and exciting Events at MilanIN! And it was also a pleasure that Sergio has remained very happy with what there has happened. He has sent a message to the Org-Team and I have his permission to share this info with the others, and the best piece of that message was “speriamo di poter ripetere l'esperienza in futuro.”

Bravo Sergio, bravo MilanIN! ;)

 

P.S. Here is the "Angel" of MilanIN, the other pictures from the Event are available in our Gallery, HERE. Big thanx to ALEX for the great job !!!

 

Keywords: Business Angel, Sergio Saibene, Social Networking, presenta te stesso, MilanIN

Andrey Golub

Today it was the day of a very important happening for the life of IT Team of MilanIN: our recent Team Member, Victor Borisevich, has submitted his first code for the MilanIN Web Platform Project!

I am more than happy about this :)

I do not want to tell it here what exactly he has done, just that it was an important fix for eGroupware's embedded CMS.

This fix, as the other developments/ fixings done by the IT Team of MilanIN, will be available (at least for now) only for MilanIN's fork of eGroupWare, that's the knowledge sharing and community collaborative working suite for Social Business Networking groups.

Bravo Victor! Towards to the Glory!!! :=)

Keywords: Content Management System, MilanIN IT Team, Social Networking, Victor Borisevich, collaborative working, eGroupWare, knowledge sharing, MilanIN

Andrey Golub

Since Michael has recently fixed some RTF/HTML stuff here, I decided to start building my Member's Home Page on MilanIN...

Why not? We do have this feature working fine now, so why should one have to store his/her personal/ professional story on some geocities and yahoo sites if he/she is a MilanIN Business Club Member?

Of course those having personal Web Sites could continue not using this nice feature of MilanIN Web Platform! ;)

For  those Members that still do not know Personal Member's Page exist, here is my example, I'll be probably updating it in the future: http://www.milanin.com/members/andrey.golub/home/

P.S. Member's Home Page is not the same as the one's Profile on MilanIN, which is here on my example: http://www.milanin.com/members/andrey.golub/
(Profile- is a short summary of information about you, Home Page- is whatever you want it to be :lol:) 

Keywords: Home Page, Member's Home Page, Michael Tabolsky, MilanIN, Profile, Home Page

Andrey Golub

I read today in the Blog of my friend from Belarus, Dima Sheiko, the strings that can not leave me indifferent to the politics of my native country, Belarus...

It's such a pain to know there is no improvement in the political situation in that country...
I am not going to comment these strings, you know it's the crime in Belarus to defame your country (everything one can tell about what's is wrong in the country- is THE LIE, and telling the lie about your country- is the CRIME).

Please make the conclusions by yourself... Read Dima's Blog or just follow the news about Belarus :)

The article is here:
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-slmTDMQ1aK7_sq74vDGb?p=236

Bravo Dima, you're much stronger than me...

Keywords: Belarus, elections, politics, Dima Sheiko

Andrey Golub

The last Thursday my wife has organized our visit ov an art show: Tamara De Lempicka gallery at “Palazzo Reale” in Milan.

At the beginning I was not very happy to “lose” an evening with such time-spending, but at the end I had to say big thanks to Oksana (my wife) for this event. There is something very particular in the drawings of Tamara D.L., the colors look a bit more strong and warm than in the real life, the shapes seems to be more sharp and contrast than in the real life.

Also the scenes of her drawings are all very attractive. I liked the things I've seen, its was really nice!

 

The other comment (less serious) would be to advice visiting of such kind of events to the young and single guys, since the quantity and the “quality” of the girls coming to see the art is very high! :)

Keywords: Tamara De Lempicka

Andrey Golub

Last Saturday, during the planned co-founders' brainstorming session, I was demonstrating to Pier Carlo that Google “knows” MilanIN already good enough, and we immediately found another great prove of it: we just tried to search for the complete names (name+surname inside <”>) of the people that were presenting themselves recently to MilanIN Members, and we saw that for the most speakers Google brings AS THE FIRST RESULT MilanIN's pages!

Take a look at Sergio Saibene's google query or Luca Zambrelli's or Pietro Martani's one.

Of course for such “web famous” people like Eric Le Bihan we could not achieve exactly the same results, but we're at least mentioned in their “award list” :)

Not too bad, right?! ;)

Well, since MilanIN has become such familiar with Web Search Engines, even w/o a strong Web Promotion strategy implemented [only thanks to Web Site content (Home Page, News, Blogs)?], I think we should definitely do a next step.

Taking into account that MilanIN has among its members such strong  and famous professionals like Sean Carlos, the SEO, we should take a look at this issue. Let's see!

Keywords: Eric Le Bihan, Google, Luca Zambrelli, MilanIN, Pier Carlo Pozzati, Pietro Martani, SEO, Sergio Saibene, Sean Carlos

Andrey Golub

The idea seems to be simple and I want to check if it works.

I read in a newspaper yesterday about the first Italian outlet on-line: born4shop. They call it “Club-Outlet”, that means it's not just an e-commerce web site but also a community (at least it should be so, from their article :lol:).

 

Probably it will work better than e-bay for Italy since the medium people here do not trust so much to e-shopping...

So, MilanIN Members and not only, is there anybody already a member of the born4shop? Could one plz invite me to there?

Big thanks in advance!

Keywords: Club-outlet, Internet, MilanIN, e-bay, e-commerce, outlet, shopping on-line, www.born4shop.com, born4shop

Andrey Golub

Today we also have our group on Meetup.com. I was talking recently that we registered MilanIN within the upcoming.org's directory.

We've called our Meetup's Group "MilanIN and friends", just because MilanIN already exist and MeetUp is not for MilanIN's promotion only. It's in general about Social Networking and ad-hoc meeting organizing.

To find us at meetup.com:

• ask Google about Social Networking in Milan/Italy :lol:;
• go to meetup.com and search for Social Networking in Milan/Italy;
• go to socialnetwork.meetup.com and search for Social Networks in Italy;
• or go directly to OUR GROUP on meetup.com :lol:
  

Keywords: Italy, Milan, MilanIN, MilanIN and friends, ad-hoc meetings, social networking, upcoming.org, meetup.com

Andrey Golub

Today Corentine Gasquet, owner of lepetitjournal.com Internet magazine for French people living in Milan, has published a news article about MilanIN. It's in French (of course!) but it's easy to understand :)

Here is the article:

http://www.lepetitjournal.com/content/view/9968/1267/

and here is the madam Corentine Gasquet's post in her Blog about this happening:

https://www.milanin.com/members/corentine.gasquet/weblog/187.html

btw, we've already updater the "The Articles" section of our Web Site.

 

Keywords: , Corentine Gasquet, France, French community, Milan, MilanIN, Pier Carlo Pozzati, article, http://www.lepetitjournal.com/, http://www.lepetitjournal.com/milan.html, lepetitjournal.com, news, social networking

Andrey Golub

The last Friday Pier Carlo has passed to us an updated version of his "Prospetto informativo" document, which I call "Executive Summary" :)

So I have updated our main document available via our Web Site: http://www.milanin.com/docs/MilanIN_ExecutiveSummary_IT.pd

Now it includes also the laters Events we've done, and some other organizational information. 

Keywords: MilanIN, Pier Carlo, Pier Carlo Pozzati, Prospetto Informativo, Executive Summary

Andrey Golub

My best congratulations to Piersergio Trapani, my friend, business partner and now also Resp. for Business Development at MilanIN.

Please find his name on the updated "The Teams" page of MilanIN, in the Team of Andrea Falzin (Marketing and Promotion), HERE (IT, ENG).

 

Keywords: Andrea Falzin, Business Development, Marketing, Piersergio Trapani, Promotions, BizDev

Andrey Golub

As anticipated few days earlier, I've recently formalized by relations with GTE for the next year. I intend to act in the role assigned to me till the official registration of an Italian branch of GTE.

The update is available on the web site of Godel Technologies Europe Ltd, here:

http://www.godeltech.com/About/Managers.aspx

 

At this moment I am working strictly with some Italian leading software solutions providers on their processes re-engineering, in respect to the Outsourcing opportunity.

Therefore if one, no matters MilanIN Member or not (yet?), is interested to have its IT services passed from the not effective consultant-based approach for developing of software solutions, to an effective and proven Outsourcing of Software Development approach- you're welcome contacting me or directly GTE, for this business opportunity.

Sincerely yours,

Andrey Golub, BizDev/Account Manager, Godel Technologies Europe Ltd.

Keywords: Andrey Golub, Godel, Godel Technologies, Godel Technologies Europe Ltd, IT, IT Services, Outsourcing, Software Development, consulting, re-engineering, www.godeltech.com, GTE

Andrey Golub

Finally another person has asked us about a Chat application for MilanIN Members!

I was waiting for this to happen for one year, not less :))) Otherwise Michael did not believe me that the Chat could be useful also for this community (it's the Business Community, not students)!
Pier Carlo, MilanIN President, was always asking me about a Chat, but since he is not a heavy Forum/Platform user, we've once put an easy chat for MilanIN Members and it was enough. As Michael says: if nobody uses it- it could be something easy, until the normal Club Members ask for something else.

Now they are asking :)

Keywords: Chat, Michael Tabolsky, MilanIN, Pier Carlo Pozzati, Web Platform, Forum

Andrey Golub

I've almost forgotten to re-broadcast this event :) I am going to come. Is anybody else interested?

1 Dicembre 2006 - Il ruolo dell'ICT e del CIO nell'innovazione di impresa

Aula Rogers, Politecnico di Milano, Via Ampere 2, Milano
Osservatorio: CIO

Convegno conclusivo dei lavori di Top Circle 2006, la comunità dei CIO promossa da Hewlett-Packard Italiana e dalla School of Management del Politecnico di Milano.

 

Durante il Convegno saranno presentati i principali risultati delle attività svolte nell’ambito di Top Circle nel 2006: attività che hanno coinvolto direttamente più di 40 CIO di primarie imprese del nostro paese sul tema del ruolo delle ICT – e in connessione del CIO e della sua relativa Funzione – a supporto dei processi innovativi di impresa (a livello di prodotto, servizio, processo, organizzazione, business model, ecc.).

 

Su quali dimensioni dell’innovazione d’impresa l’ICT può dare un contributo rilevante? Quali fattori possono favorire o ostacolare il ruolo del CIO a supporto dell’innovazione d’impresa? Come il Sistema Informativo aziendale è in grado di supportare i processi innovativi? Quali ambiti tecnologici avranno il maggiore impatto potenziale sull’innovazione?

A queste e a simili domande ha cercato di dare risposta, nel corso del 2006, Top Circle.

 

I risultati della Ricerca saranno discussi nel corso di una Tavola Rotonda cui parteciperanno i CIO di alcune importanti imprese del nostro paese.

 

Al termine del Convegno verrà distribuito gratuitamente, a chi ne farà richiesta, il Report contenente i risultati principali della Ricerca

  

La partecipazione è gratuita, previa iscrizione.

 

Keywords: Hewlett-Packard, ICT, IT Manager, MIP, Politecnico di Milano, School of Management del Politecnico di Milano, Top Circle, innovazione di impresa, CIO