CROATIA: PR AGENCIES TO WORK FOR PUBLIC SECTOR AGAIN?
According to sources close to the Croatian government, the provision prohibiting the hiring of PR agencies in the public sector should be abolished after four years in force.
Although no official response has arrived yet, the new government is intensively working on the guidelines of public policy of professional services that will repeal the controversial provision of former Prime Minister Zoran Milanović in two to three months. The possible abolition of this provision is great news for all Croatian PR agencies, for which this decision, they say, was discriminatory and brought them in an unfavorable market position.
DIDS 2016 LIVE ONLINE
Over 500 participants signed up for DIDS 2016 – Seventh annual conference on the development of internet in the world and the .rs and .srb domains, in Serbia. Days of Internet Domains of Serbia will be held March 15 and 16 at the Hotel Hyatt Belgrade under the slogan We live Internet … Global – Safe – Local.
All who are unable to attend this event in person will be able to follow the DIDS program live over the internet, on the websites dids.rs and dids.srb as well as on the websites of the media sponsors RTS, B92, Politika, LiveTV.rs and others.
DIDS livestream starts at 10h00 and runs until 15h30, and questions to participants may be sent via Twitter , #dids2016.
31. BUSINESS CAFÉ IN ZAGREB: HAVE GUTS!
The most popular gathering of small business owners, Business Cafe, will be held for the 31st time in Zagreb on 24 March, at 18h00, in the restaurant Spoon.
Guests entrepreneurs who will share their entrepreneurial stories are Sandra Mihelčić, co-owner of Business Media Group and winner of numerous awards; Lea Brezar, owner of Dhar Media and author of the book Out of the Box; and Ekrem Dupanović from Sarajevo, owner and editor in chief of Media Marketing.
Organizers expect 150 to 200 small business owners from several Croatian cities and neighboring countries Serbia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Sponsors of events in Zagreb are: Vipnet, Linea Snella, Falkensteiner, Nivea, Putuj Bolje, Biro.
Sponsor of 2016 location is Restaurant Spoon.
Media sponsors are www.poslovni-savjetnik.com and www.naturala.hr
Regional media sponsor is the portal www.media-marketing.com
WORK BY ANA KOMPARA WINS AT SIXTH PLAKTIVAT
The sixth competition of the Slovenian social responsibility project Plaktivat, which this time pointed to the problem of hate speech, received a record number of entries (111). A jury of experts declared the best a poster by graduate of architecture master’s studies, Ana Kompara, whose creativity perfectly hit the essence of this competition. (Marketing Magazine)
FIFTH WEBSI WITH NOVELTIES IN COMPETITION SEGMENT
Within the project WEBSI Internet Champions 2016, which rewards the Slovenian digital achievements, for the first time will have a special category devoted to start-ups.
“WEBSI is changing. We no longer seek only the best in Slovenia. We are looking for projects which are prepared so that they can compete on the world market, both with applicability and business approach and design, even though they are intended only for Slovenian public. Let’s be the best,” said Aljoša Domijan, partner at EnaA.com, president of the jury.
Applications for the WEBSI competition are open until 20 May 2016.
MIKSER FESTIVAL 2016: SENSITIVE SOCIETY
Eight Mikser Festival – regional festival of creativity and innovation – will be held for the fifth time in Belgrade neighborhood Savamala, from 8 to 12 June 2016, at more than 40 locations and with the participation of 1,000 artists
This year’s Mikser Festival takes place under the slogan Sensitive Society, strongly colored with themes of gender equality and women’s creativity, social equality, open dialogue, multiculturalism and effective conflict resolution.
The focus of this year’s Mikser Festival is three-fold and under the spotlight places the topics of female creativity and gender equality, then the refugee crisis and possible directions for the integration of refugees into European society and finally open platforms for the exchange of knowledge and ideas – all under the umbrella of the title, Sensitive Society.
Relying on these three focus topics, Mikser Festival aims to explore the social concepts by which citizens and creative professionals can influence the current social processes in order to improve the quality of everyday life, opening the way for more direct cooperation with vulnerable and disadvantaged groups and promote human values, empathy and love.
TOMISLAV GRDIĆ REINFORCES VISICOM IN CROATIA
Tomislav Grdić is the new reinforcement to the team at Visicom, a regional agency for integrated communications, public relations and consulting with operations in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Greece and Hungary.
From the seat of PR manager at Visicom, Tomislav Grdić will take care of the communication needs of the key customers of the company in Croatia, strategic consulting in public relations, design of new strategies and new customer acquisitions. Tomislav Grdić is an expert in public relations and longtime journalist, who has built his career in journalism in the political daily Vjesnik and in magazine Nacional. He provided communications consultancy to the successful Croatian and international companies and brands – Gavrilović, McDonalds, Nokia, Philips, BKS Bank, Mercedes, Honda.
