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Loïc and Geraldine Le Meur, the masterminds behind Europe's largest and most lavish web event, talk about this year's Le Web. For further information, including a PDF of this year's program, see their official TypePad blog....

Following the success of last year's event, LeWeb is back in Paris 9 and 10 December for its fifth edition. As a Premium Partner, we are excited about what is in store this time around -- rumor has it that Brazilian literary genius Paulo Coelho has already confirmed his participation as a keynote speaker.Tickets are now available for purchase online; though the "Very Early Bird" tickets are sold out, "Early Bird" tickets are still available at a significantly discounted rate. Le Web 3 - 2007 from David Dworsky on Vimeo....

Our thanks go out to Robert Andrews of PaidContent:UK for his incisive interview of Six Apart EMEA VP and General Manager, Olivier Creiche. In the videotaped Q&A, Olivier talks openly about why Six Apart sold hot property LiveJournal to Russian online media company SUP, as well as on the death of blogging (!).See the full interview here....

Six Apart EMEA is sending its very own Dhana Silva, Sales Manager of Spain and Latin America, on a 3 week-long  blog evangelism tour that will cover her trek (in stilettos, of course) through Venezuela, Columbia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.With existing Spanish and South American clients like Hola, El Tiempo, El Pais, Banco Sabadell, El Clarin, Mobuzz TV, Mercurio and Microsiervos, Six Apart hopes to help spread blogging throughout this exciting region of the world. Among other things, Dhana will be sharing her insights on the growth of Web2.0 in...

Six Apart has always understood the possibilities in enterprise-level blogging (internal and external communications, easy publishing, data collection for R&D through direct client feedback, content management, creation of virtual communities and social networks, etc...). This month, we found out that we are not the only ones who see a proliferation of Web 2.0 tools in large companies.According to Global Enterprise Web 2.0 Market Forecast: 2007 To 2013, corporate spending in the Web 2.0 sector will hit $4.6 billion by 2013. The report, written by G. Oliver Young at Forrester Research,...

Olivier Creiche, General Manager of Six Apart EMEA, will be speaking at the Marketing 2.0 Conference in Paris on  5-6 May 2008. Organized by the ESCP-EAP Business School (European School of Management - Paris), the purpose of the event is to gather industry leaders for a cutting-edge discussion on how to generate profit from Web2.0 tools like social networking sites, Internet TV and mobile marketing.With speakers from industry heavyweights including YouTube, Forrester, Netvibes and MySpace, the conference is slated to be an interesting one that will offer insight into the...

Six Apart Europe GM Olivier Creiche has confirmed that he will be speaking at the Enterprise 2.0 Summit at CeBIT 2008 this year.The Six Apart-sponsored event will be held in Hanover on 4 March and aims to inspire corporations to implement Web2.0 innovations (such as blogs, wikis and social networks) into their strategies to become more competitive in their respective markets. Rather than dabble in the theoretical, the speakers at Enterprise 2.0 Summit will be presenting hands-on solutions to real-life challenges facing businesses today.Organizers expect over 400 participants, from techies...

Six Apart is pleased to announce a new partnership with St Gallen-based web consultants namics. With offices in St Gallen, Bern, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich, Zug and Zurich, this Swiss company has over 1,100 projects attributed to it and is one of the most influential Internet consulting groups in the Germanophone world. Namics has helped develop the online presence of such international companies as DaimlerChrysler, Braun, Nestlé, Siemens and the European Central Bank.To stay abreast of the projects currently underway at namics, please see their Movable Type-powered blog....

Olivier Creiche, formerly Director of Business Development for Six Apart S.A., has been promoted to Vice President and General Manager. Creiche joined Six Apart in 2004 when Ublog SA, the blogging service company he co-founded with Loïc Le Meur, was acquired by Six Apart. He quickly developed business partnerships with leading media companies in Europe and helped set Six Apart on a growth path in the region. "Olivier has been a critical contributor to Six Apart's success in Europe," said Barak Berkowitz, CEO of Six Apart. "I'm delighted that he...