Welcome to The Forum Weblog

Here we are, Samantha and Loic, in Warsaw, just a few hours before the opening of the European Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum in Warsaw, Poland.

Following the session (pdf) about blogging at the last World Economic Forum Summit in Davos this year and the fact that Jay, Ethan, Joi, Rebecca and myself started blogging live from Davos, the Forum team decided to start their own blog and I really like that idea. Please be nice with Samantha and myself, this is really a first attempt to make The Forum's blog a reality.

This blog is totally experimental and Samantha and myself will be blogging live during the European Economic Summit 2004.

Let us introduce ourselves briefly.

Samantha is working for The Forum as Web Editor, a blog new comer and a journalist who is "learning to write free" as she likes to put it. I am a French entrepreneur, part of the GLT community of The World Economic Forum. Please forgive my english as I am not a native english speaker.

We will blog here summaries of the sessions we participate in and some personal ideas about them. As I said, this is an experiment and should be taken as is. In no way should the notes you will find here express the voice of The Forum itself but rather our personal experience of the Summit, as participants. There is also a disclaimer here.

You are welcome to comment as you wish and trackback on this weblog, as long as you follow the guidelines written by The Forum which I think are open. We hope to start interesting discussions around the topics discussed during the European summit.

Comments

[g lammert]

Please consider adding this website to your blog:
http://www.economicfractalist.com/

[lisya gon]

lisya

[bailiffs]

Good luck with your blog! I always find it particularly tough to get into the blogosphere and amongst the correct crowds.

[Lance Knobel]

I'm very glad the Forum has taken this step.

One small historical note. When I was running the Davos programme in 2000, I kept up my weblog live from Davos as an insider. It wasn't an official Forum blog, but it was everything but official.

Good luck with the blog.

[Fabienne]

I hope the public at large will seize the opportunity to interact and complement this space with intellectually-stimulating comments/information! Looking forward to reading on!

[Rebecca]

Congratulations on your launch! I've added it to my news aggregator and look forward to following WEF activities remotely.

[Ralph Poole]

Good luck with the new blog! I hope that you get lots of attention. I will look forward to your reporting from the summit.