PLANNERS MEETING - attempted

We, meaning the board of APG Romania, are trying a sort of planners' meeting tomorrow at 19:00 in Amsterdam Grand Cafe. Currently we have only one confirmation and we are not sure there is a reservation but we'll try to be there and talk about planning and planners. If you wish to join, please do :-)

APG Romania news

So we had elections, and APG Romania has a new board of directors.
Some new faces, some old faces. The new president is Stefan Chiritescu of BBDO and we have a new Project Director, Elena Ionita from Leo. Costin of IQAds remains as our Communications director and Diana is still the money girl as Treasurer.
I have happily preserved my station as Project Director too (thanks y'all who voted, I felt touched to see that among "the voted" I am the one with most aggregated points :-))
So, here goes nothing: a new year for APG and hopefully more planners' meetings and more cool stuff to do.

Beershpere global

Faris has managed to spawn a global initiative. Local planners will soon be announcing the Romanian chapter of a global initiative called the Beersphere, which sees planners and wannabe planners from all over the world get together for a beer and a planners' chat at the same time all over the participating towns.

Stay tuned for details.

APG Romania

More stuff happening with APG Romania. We met - 'we' being the board and the few members that could make it, in the IAA house last Thursday to listen to the candidates' platform and discuss some issues. Interesting ideas were exchanged and voting - only members, people - is due this coming week.

I am running, yet again, for the position of Project Manager with a clear and easy platform: DO YOUNG RESEARCH, which means literally that we should DO more research, more innovatively, but also stands for my wish to have planners DO more - meaning create content, create valuable knowledge, to guide the new generation - YOUNG - and to promote the use of research everywhere - RESEARCH.
Keep checking the APG Romania website )especially the blog( for updates.

Planners meeting

John Griffiths is in town and, as we had promised, we are putting something together for a meet with him. Join us for a revival of the planner meeting tomorrow at 20:00 (hey, same hour :-P) at Cafepedia Universitate.

lovely pic via (thank you...)

Apologies

We did not show up for coffee and I understand some of you did go. My fault completely but I am horrendously down with the flu and could not move except to go to very important client meeting where we got sacked :-)

Please forgive me and enjoy this as a treat

Planners meeting in Iasi

Have promised I'd revive the planners meeting and I have the chance to do one in Iasi this weekend. So if anyone is interested in talking about planning and stuff I will be in Iasi this Saturday. Monoranu suggested Arte Cafe in Copou as a good place so drop by round 19:00 and we can chat :-)
(thanks M for the really nice description)