{"id":1488,"date":"2012-02-06T17:36:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2012-02-06T17:36:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T15:36:58","slug":"my-midem-2012-participation-my-move-to-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/my-midem-2012-participation-my-move-to-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"My midem 2012 participation &#038; my move to Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi!<\/p>\n<p>Long time no speak. This is the first post in a long time and might be the last post in a while too. I&#8217;ll keep writing articles for other sites from time to time, so if you wanna find out about them, check out the ways to connect at the bottom of this post.<\/p>\n<p>So one thing I&#8217;ve been busy with was preparing for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midem.com\/\">midem<\/a><\/strong> and the three events I participated in, a speech on Visionary Monday, a <a href=\"http:\/\/schedule.midem.com\/?IdNode=74&amp;CurrentNode=73&amp;Lang=GB&amp;Zoom=6fc6f5793952c021451b20fbf1c85a57&amp;KM_Session=9a91c692782dd7233600a53eecaee5c8\">Meet the Speakers mentoring session<\/a>, and a panel about music business trends.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.livestream.com\/embed\/midem?layout=4&#038;clip=pla_d032c982-c7d2-4042-a9dd-ed093f2a0482&#038;color=0xe7e7e7&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;mute=false&#038;iconColorOver=0x888888&#038;iconColor=0x777777&#038;allowchat=true&#038;height=295&#038;width=500\" style=\"border:0;outline:0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For the thesis I&#8217;m talking about in the speech, go here: <a href=\"http:\/\/basbasbas.com\/thesis\">basbasbas.com\/thesis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I was in a panel with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/eliotvb\">Eliot Van Buskirk<\/a>, editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolver.fm\">Evolver.fm<\/a>; James Martin, midem\u2019s community manager &amp; session moderator; Will Sansom, writer and consultant for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contagiousmagazine.com\/\">Contagious<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.midem.com\/2012\/01\/liveblog-bloggers-wrap-data-streaming-hackers-are-shows-top-trends\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.midem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Capture-d%E2%80%99%C3%A9cran-2012-01-31-%C3%A0-14.45.12-490x290.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The panel, whose aim was to resume the industry\u2019s key trends as seen at midem, featured a sense of optimism towards the future of music and technology, with this year\u2019s conference trends focusing towards data and experimentation as the age of access begins to enter the music industry marketplace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.midem.com\/2012\/01\/liveblog-bloggers-wrap-data-streaming-hackers-are-shows-top-trends\/\">http:\/\/blog.midem.com\/2012\/01\/liveblog-bloggers-wrap-data-streaming-hackers-are-shows-top-trends\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I had a great time at midem &#8211; also being able to finally meet so many of the people I&#8217;ve been connecting with through Twitter &amp; blogs over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>But now, let&#8217;s talk about <strong>Moscow<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamindustries.ru\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1490\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-02-06 at 5.11.13 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Screen-Shot-2012-02-06-at-5.11.13-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Screen-Shot-2012-02-06-at-5.11.13-PM.png 972w, https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Screen-Shot-2012-02-06-at-5.11.13-PM-300x49.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been hired as Head of Information Strategy at Moscow-based <a href=\"http:\/\/dreamindustries.ru\/\">Dream Industries<\/a>, who run 3 disruptive content-focused platforms, named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zvooq.com\/\">Zvooq<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/theoryandpractice.ru\/\">Theory &amp; Practice<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bookmate.com\/\">Bookmate<\/a>. Zvooq being the leading legal music streaming service in Russia &amp; CIS (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/84c2ea02-e9cd-11e0-bb3e-00144feab49a.html#axzz1lcDLYnea\">Financial Times article<\/a>), Theory &amp; Practice being a knowledge and education-sharing platform and community, and Bookmate\u00a0being the leading platform for publishers in Russia and CIS countries, providing access to the social reading of the vast library of books on leading mobile platforms.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really excited to be joining them and will be moving to Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; if you want to stay up to date, you can follow me here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Spartz\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0(or via this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/basgrasmayer\">Facebook syndication<\/a> of my tweets);<\/li>\n<li>On <a href=\"http:\/\/spartz.tumblr.com\/\">Tumblr<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>As a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/basgras\">Facebook subscriber<\/a> (or friend, if we&#8217;ve met &#8216;in real life&#8217;);<\/li>\n<li>On <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/user\/basgras\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>All are quite different channels, so choose whichever is\/are most convenient for you.<\/div>\n<div>At some point I hope to remix this blog &amp; turn it into a feed of posts from those accounts, as well as guest contributions to blogs &amp; publications around the web.<\/div>\n<div>But until then&#8230; see you around the internet! \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div>Bas<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! 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