On Thursday, our last full day in Israel, we dashed from school to nonprofit to one of Israel’s top corporate success stories. I was busy taking photos, so here are some of my notes, with pointers to longer writeups. Bialik-Rogozin School One of the week’s most touching visits came during a stop at the multicultural […]
Old Jerusalem & a VC firm
One of the stranger juxtapositions on the Innovation Israel trip came on Wednesday when our blogger posse spent a few hours taking a guided tour of Old Jerusalem. I spent the entire time taking photos in RAW format with my new Nikon D300 digital camera (haven’t had time to read the 300-page manual, so mostly […]
Tools the alpha geeks use
We’re winding up our Innovation Israel tour of Israel’s tech community today, and I’m in awe of some of the Silicon Valley alpha geeks I’ve been traveling with this week. (Here’s our group blog: Travelinggeeks.com.) Especially loved spending quality time with Robert Scoble, Susan Mernit, Cathy Brooks, Sarah Lacy and Deb Schultz. So I thought […]
Day 2 of blogger posse in Israel
Ten bloggers and citizen journalists are on a weeklong Innovation Israel tour, chiefly to Israel’s high-tech sector. It’s my first time in Israel. We have a high-stress, fast-paced agenda every day, with lots of people, companies and travel sites to visit. It appears that I’ll be: Blogging here when I get the chance. Posting photos […]
Meeting OneVoice in Israel
Man, this is a crazy way to blog (on a blogger bus in Israel with a deputy consul talking in a Hebrew dialect on his cell phone in my ear). On Sunday afternoon, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark (who is on OneVoice’s board of advisors), Susan Mernit and I met with seven leaders of the Israeli […]