Tag Archives: switzerland

Polyglots and other Multilinguals, Rejoice

[fr]A lire de toute urgence pour ceux d’entre nous qui parlent plus d’une langue (même imparfaitement) — et pour les autres aussi: Life as a Bilingual, blog du Prof. François Grosjean de Neuchâtel.[en]My friend Corinne shared a link on Facebook … Continue reading

Posted in Language Geekiness | Tagged bilingual, françois grosjean, multilingual, psycholinguistics, Research, switzerland | Leave a comment

Eliminatoires suisses du WIF: sponsoring et Suisse allemande

[en]I’m part of a team of four people here in Lausanne who are organizing the Swiss selections for the WIF (a huge webdesign festival which takes place every other year in Limoges, France). We’re still looking for: a Swiss-German partner … Continue reading

Posted in My corner of the world, My projects | Tagged annonce, Announcements, concours, éliminatoires, Events, festival, limoges, recherche, sélections, swif, switzerland, Wanted, webdesign, wif | 2 Comments

Un Parti des Pirates Suisse multilingue?

[en]Will the community gathered around the creation of a Swiss Pirate Party manage to include the various linguistic groups of the country, or will the Roestigraben win, like it did in the 2006 Swiss Blog Awards? Interesting situation which I’m … Continue reading

Posted in Language Geekiness | Tagged communauté, languages, Languages / Linguistics, langues, linguistiques, multilinguisme, parti des pirates, piracy, piratage, politique, roestigraben, suisse, switzerland | 6 Comments

Le Parti des Pirates débarque en Suisse!

[en]A Pirate Party is getting organised in Switzerland. Foundation meeting on July 12th in Zurich.[fr]Alors que le Parti Pirate suédois fait son entrée au Parlement Européen (7% des suffrages!), Lyonel se demande s’il fera des émules en Suisse, à la … Continue reading

Posted in Social Media and the Web | Tagged brevets, droit d'auteur, Online Culture, parlement européen, parti des pirates, parti pirate, piratage, pirate party, piratenpartei, Politics / World News, politique, suède, suisse, switzerland | 2 Comments

Lift09: Turning Lake Leman into Silicon Valley?

I participated in a Birds of a Feather session earlier, titled How can we make Lac Léman into an entrepreneurial hub? — I found it a little frustrating to start with, but it ended up really lively and interesting. One … Continue reading

Posted in Being the boss, My corner of the world | Tagged business, Culture, entrepreneuring, entrepreneurs, geneva, heritage, history, lac léman, lausanne, léman lake leman, silicon valley, Stuff that doesn't fit, suisse romande, switzerland, usa, web 2.0 | Leave a comment

Workshop About Coworking at Lift09

[fr]Je participe à un workshop sur le coworking à Lift, mercredi après-midi. Si vous avez prévu de venir à la conférence, rejoignez-nous-y. J’y parlerai de mon expérience avec l’eclau. Si vous avez des aventures style coworking à partager, contactez-nous pour … Continue reading

Posted in Conferences, Coworking | Tagged Coworking, eclau, Events, lift09, switzerland, user/07467067922840649993/state/com.google/read, workshop | 1 Comment

Voter “oui” pour les bilatérales

[en]Swiss politics :-) [fr]Une fois n’est pas coutume, je sors des sentiers battus ici sur Climb to the Stars pour parler politique. Enfin, “parler politique”, c’est un bien grand mot. Ceux qui me connaissent savent que mon inculture en matière de … Continue reading

Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged bila-blog, bilatérales, Politics / World News, politique, suisse, Swiss blogging, switzerland, ue, unefoisnestpascoutume, union européenne, user/07467067922840649993/state/com.google/read, votations | Leave a comment

Lancement du blog de voyage ebookers.ch

[en]I’m pretty excited to announce that we’re launching the ebookers.ch travel blog in French. The blog is managed by the Swiss online media company Blogwerk, and I’m the editor, and we have a team of blogger-authors writing the posts (I … Continue reading

Posted in Corporate, My corner of the world, My work | Tagged Announcements, blog, blogging, Blogs et entreprises, blogwerk, Citations, Consulting, ebookers, ebookers.ch, Media, Offsite, suisse romande, switzerland, user/07467067922840649993/state/com.google/read, voyage | 1 Comment

Happy iPhone Owner: Newbie Tips and Comments

[fr]Propriétaire très heureuse d’un nouvel iPhone. Voici quelques tuyaux et commentaires pour nouveaux utilisateurs.[en]A few weeks ago I took the plunge and became a happy iPhone owner. I had a few doubts (crappy camera and battery life) before that, but … Continue reading

Posted in Technology | Tagged advice, beginner, feedback, iPhone, orange, review, Reviews, switzerland, Technology, tips, user/07467067922840649993/state/com.google/read | Leave a comment

Cherche blogueurs branchés voyages (pour blog ebookers)

[fr]As the editor of the upcoming ebookers blog in French, I’m looking for a few motivated French-speaking bloggers to write about travel-related topics (paid blogging).[en]Ceux qui me suivent sur Twitter ont peut-être déjà vu passer un appel ou deux. Voici … Continue reading

Posted in Blog de voyage ebookers.ch, My corner of the world, My work, Travels | Tagged blog, Blogosphere Interest, bloguer, ebookers, entrepreneuring, job, offre d\'emploi, recrutement, suisse, suisse romande, Swiss blogging, switzerland, Travels, user/07467067922840649993/state/com.google/read, voyage, Wanted | 1 Comment