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Change in leadership at Nokia Conversations

By Charlie on 23 June 2009

ESPOO, Finland - After about 18 months building and growing this site (with a great team and lots of support, mind you), I’m stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of Nokia Conversations. Starting today, I’ll be stepping out of the day to day operations of the site and ancillary channels. After taking my holidays in July, I’ll be providing support to the new guy (introduction coming later). I might pen a few articles in August and September, but after that I will no longer be on the team.

Read on for what this means for Nokia Conversations

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The Pass the Parcel prized-participant has been picked

By Charlie on 23 June 2009

GLOBAL - As you all must know by now, the Pass the Parcel game ended with PhoneDog.com winning (among other things) the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic that was inside the parcel. We also told you that all participants on our list would be getting a 5530 to review.

What we also hinted at was that we’d see what we could do to reward all of you folks who were avidly commenting and guessing what was in the parcel. And, yes, we’re happy to say, after a laborious and scientific process, we have chosen someone from the ranks of commenters.

Read on to find out who it was.

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Nokia Spain gets a Golden Medal from the Spanish Red Cross

By Charlie on 09 June 2009

MADRID, Spain - The Spanish Red Cross awarded a Golden Medal to Nokia Spain for Nokia’s long-term commitment to guaranteeing young immigrant’s rights and helping these immigrants gain skills to successfully integrate into Spanish society.

The Royal Family hosted an awards event during the Worldwide Red Cross Day in Mérida, in May. Marieta del Rivero, the former Nokia Spain General Manager who oversaw the project and, Alberto Matrone, the current Nokia Spain General Manager were there to receive the award.

Read on more to learn about this project.

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Introducing The Almanac (and a few other small changes to Nokia Conversations)

By Charlie on 08 June 2009

GLOBAL - Uncharacteristically, we have another “administrative” announcement. The last one was pretty recent and mentioned things like Blogbite, @nokconv on Twitter, and blogs.nokia.com. This time around we want to introduce something a bit larger.

One thing that we’ve been wishing for is a central place that has all the information on a particular product or service. No, we don’t mean some static page with fancy graphics and long lists of technical specs. What we wanted was a page that had some info on the product, some photos, some dynamic ever-changing info about the product, and something fun. A jumping-off place for all you would want to know about a particular product.

What we came up with is The Almanac. And we think it’ll be a hit. Read on for more details.

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How to add the Nokia Conversations Blogbite to your phone

By Charlie on 23 May 2009

ESPOO, Finland - The Nokia Conversations Blogbite is a really fun way to keep up with our articles here on Nokia Conversations. It’s a weekly audio summary by Rob Knight and Dan McGrath, available every Friday afternoon.

To listen to it, there’s a Blogbite player in the upper right of our site, and a feed for your favorite podcast app or for iTunes.

But, what’s better, we’ve managed to include the Nokia Conversations Blogbite into the Nokia Podcast Directory, found in many Nokia phones (learn more about the podcasting app on Nokia.com). If you have the Nokia podcasting app on your phone, the Nokia Conversations Blogbite can be found in the Featured Podcasts listing.

Below, I show you some screenshots to help you set this up.

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New ways to keep up with Nokia Conversations

By Charlie on 22 May 2009

ESPOO, Finland - Every so often it’s good to put out a wee administrative message about who we are, what our goals are, and how to follow us. And, yes, this is one of them, about some ways to follow what we produce here at Nokia Conversations.

As you should be aware by now, we have a few different streams you can follow. We have video, presentations, bookmarks, and, of course, this site. We’re doing our best to fill the streams and interact with everyone who participates in those streams.

Below, I’ve listed some of the newer streams, particularly highlighting some we haven’t properly promoted yet. So, read on and see if you’ve missed any.

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Nokia has still more to say about cameras

By Charlie on 21 May 2009

ESPOO, Finland - Nokia launched its first camera phone, the Nokia 7650, back in November 2001 and helped changed the face of digital photography, the Web, and mobile phones. The latest leap in camera phones for Nokia is the Nokia N86 8MP. It has shown that Nokia still as something to say about mobile phones and photography. I have been an avid user of camera phones since the launch of the Nokia 7650. And I am currently using the Nokia N86 8MP. Continue reading for a bit of a journey past the milestones in camera phones at Nokia, and maybe get a glimpse of the future.

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Nokia at location fest 2009 (a.k.a. Where 2.0 Conference 2009)

By Mike on 20 May 2009

CALIFORNIA, USA - This week Nokia is in attendance at the Where 2.0 Conference in San Jose, California, the world’s biggest event focussed on exploring location-based services.

Read on to find out more about what to expect from the Where 2.0 Conference.

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Nokia encourages girls to pursue careers in IT through ’shadowing days’

By Mike on 28 April 2009

HELSINKI, Finland - Nokia is involved in a number of initiatives to help develop and support the ambitions of young people (such as YouthActionNet), and similarly raise awareness for crucial global concerns such as sustainability (see Dreams Workshop). This week our attention was drawn to a program that Nokia has been supporting since 2007, started by the European Commission with a view to addressing the lack of women in IT careers. To tackle this problem, Nokia joined the ’shadowing days’ scheme, which sees girls visit Nokia and shadow the women working there to get a much greater understanding of the life and careers of women working in this area, and as the EU Commission puts it, prove that technology is not “strictly for geeks!”.

Recently a 13 year-old girl called Rosemarie Hartman, with ambitions to study Maths, Science and Technology, visited Nokia headquarters to do exactly that, and created a video diary of her day shadowing women within the company, from meetings about Comes With Music to teleconferences about recycling and a visit to the Nokia flagship store in Helsinki. It’s a great little video, that gives a candid insight into how the ’shadowing day’ program works as well as a peek behind the scenes at Nokia House. Click to watch the full video.
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