Learning the Language of Evento Blog Espana

[ 1000 Empty Seats at Evento Blog Espana. Photo by Shel]

From where I sit, there is a room behind me that has nearly 1,000 empty seats. In a few hours, I am told it will be filled, as Evento Blog Espana begins. I am kickoff keynoter.  Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is the bookend.

It has already become a very interesting experience. The producers have been awesome hosts, doing everything possible to make Biz and me feel extremely well received. Seville, or Sevilla, is a wonderful Southern City that stays up late and bops from one taopas bar to the next. The main Cathedral and the Alacazar Palaces, where Christopher Columbus got permission to sail to "the Indies" is one of those jaw-dropping wonders.

Out first event was unique in my experience. The Spanish state of Andalucia's Minister of Culture visited to announce wikanda.es, a wiki where Andalucians will be encouraged to tell their personal stories, for current and future people to see and hear.  This is the type of online story-telling that I think shows the real power of social media.

Biz, his wonderful wife Lyvia and I have met some wonderful people, mostly bloggers.  language is a slight problem, but as I have come to understand, most people in most places are very much alike.  And most people active in blogging and social media are eager to meet people from other places and share experiences and conversations.

It helps me relax.  I will be presenting to this audience through German (pronounced Herman) our interpreter and I am nervous about language being a barrier, since part of my talk is about--language being a barrier.

In the end, language may just be a speed bump.  In the end, people are just people and I look forward to the glory of being the guy on the stage.

Comments

[Juan Pablo Tapia]

Please be welcome to my language!! Will you upload your conference? Greetings...

[shel israel]

Hola, mi amigo de las Chile! I will upload my presentation to Slideshare after I get back to America, home of the free broadband connection.

[cvander]

@Shel, we meet on friday before your conference in EBE. It was great to meet you and exchange some toughts about the hispanic market. I'll try to promote with some bloggers to do more posts in english about this market, so we can share our work to the global world.

Take care.

[shel israel]

Cvander,

Thank you so much to even listen and consider what I had to say. Please let me know when you and your friends start blogging in English. You can email me at shelisrael1@gmail.com