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Photo: Daria Mateljak
By: Adnan Arnautlija
RECORD NUMBER OF ENTRIES FOR HUOJ GRAND PRIX AWARDS
For this year’s Grand PRix Croatia’s Association for Public Relations has received a record number of entries. For this most prestigious award for public relations in Croatia a total of 68 communication projects have been reported.
The jury will evaluate them this year in 12 categories. The biggest interest was attracted in categories: corporate social responsibility, adjustment of a global campaign and public relations in the non-governmental sector.
Grand PRix as the highest professional award in the country has particular value because of the exchange of experience among practitioners of public relations.
“Grand PRix enables us in one place to get an overview of the best that was done in the field of public relations in the past year. From the submitted projects, not only can we see how well the industry is working, but also the direction in which it is developing,” said Daria Mateljak, president of the jury of the Grand PRix.
To further encourage the development of quality public communication, Grand PRix is also awarded in three specific categories: Communicator of the Year, Pomegranate of the Year, and one expert is given the award for contribution to the profession.
To recall, nominees for Communicator of the Year are: Boris Jokić, former head of the curricular reform, Marko Matijević, initiator if the portal srednja.hr, Zdravko Marić, Croatian finance minister, Bruno Šimleša writer and the Croatian Mountain Rescue Service.
TBWA\ZAGREB IS LOOKING FOR YOUNG CREATIVES
Zagreb-based full-service agency is hiring young people who are currently completing their studies or are recent graduates.
The selected candidates can expect paid trial period of three to five months, after which the best ones will remain on the team. Start period begins mid-March.
The deadline for applications is 5 March, and along with the CV interested candidates should send their creative solutions to a given topic.
More about open positions and how to apply at: www.tbwa.hr/news-young-blood.
CROWDFOUNDING IN THE FOCUS OF THIS YEAR’S MARKET&NG CONFERENCE
This year you will once again have the opportunity to listen to leading representatives from the world of marketing at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek, Croatia. Topic of this year’s conference Market&NG is How to make money online, and will be held on 9 and 10 March 2017 year.
Student Association Bookmark, in cooperation with the Department of Marketing of the Faculty of Economics in Osijek and creative agency Adverta organizes numerous lectures and workshops with the aim to encourage communication between existing and future marketing professionals. The conference program is free for all participants.
Is there a better way to upgrade your knowledge than first-hand exchange? Special attention is attached to the experts who have tried their hands at Crowdfunding campaigns to raise funds for their projects. All interested parties will have the opportunity to learn about what a Crowdfunding campaign is, what good does it bring and which are the steps that must be followed in order to ultimately be successful. One of the closest crowdfunding campaigns lasted late last year and was called “Buba Bar – Extra chromosome for extra coffee“. It was a campaign on the Indiegogo platform, whose goal was to collect $10,000 to open the first café in Croatia that will employ people with Down syndrome. Founders of this idea will be guests of the conference, and during the breaks, coffee will be served by nice staff full of love and positive energy.
WHATSAPP JUST BECAME EVEN BETTER WITH “LIVE LOCATION TRACKING”
Popular messaging app, WhatsApp these days gets even better. Among the innovations coming to the platform is the delete / cancel option, and editing of already sent messages, as well as tracking the location of contacts.
The latest beta release of WhatsApp brings a feature that allows the app to see where exactly the user is and to provide that information to their contacts. This Facebook-owned service calls the option Live Location Tracking, and it is supposed to help in organizing meetings and the like.
Users will be able to choose whether they want to activate this feature or not – and even set intervals of one, two or five minutes.
DJAMEL AGAOUAE IS THE NEW CEO OF VIBER
Viber, one of the world’s leading messaging apps, announced that Djamel Agaoua has joined the company as chief executive officer, effective immediately. Agaoua will lead Viber in its efforts to accelerate the development of innovative new features and increase global customer base of the platform.
Djamel Agaoua is a French citizen who has lived in Silicon Valley for several years and has joined Viber after serving as CEO in MobPartner, a successful global mobile adtech company that was bought by Cheetah Mobile in March 2015.
“Viber continues to play a leading role in the revolution of mobile apps, bringing a seamless experience of voice calls to mobile and combining it with the powerful possibilities of messaging and communications,” said Agaoua. “I’m more than proud to join this team and to help Viber in its most important mission – to provide an amazing experience for our customers and help them to connect with those who are important to them. I look forward to leading Viber toward accelerating innovation and development of new opportunities for high growth.”
DER SPIEGEL’S PRESIDENT TRUMP BEHEADING COVER DIVIDES OPINION
Weekly German news magazine Der Spiegel is facing criticism over its latest front cover, which features Donald Trump beheading the Statue of Liberty.
The powerful cartoon shows the president wielding a knife and holding up Lady Liberty’s severed head, with the illustrator Edel Rodriguez saying the image represents “the beheading of democracy.”
Underneath the drawing, a caption reads: ‘America First’ in reference to one of Trump’s go-to election campaign mantras.
The strong condemnation of the politician has divided opinion in Europe and the US. Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, the German vice-president of the European Parliament described it as “tasteless”, while the Washington post has dubbed it “stunning.”
German Daily newspaper Die Welt said the cover “devalues journalism” arguing that the splash was intended to shock and gain publicity for Spiegel.
Cartoonist Rodriguez asserted he was making a comparison between Trump and Isis militants who behead their victims, because “both sides are extremists.”