Alex de Carvalho

A week in Israel and Jordan

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My mind is filled with ques­tions as I pon­der the his­tory, cul­ture, and cur­rent events of the region. I’ve heard so many pos­i­tives and neg­a­tives, and it is with a great sense of curios­ity and excite­ment that I travel to Israel and Jor­dan next week. In par­tic­u­lar, I am anx­ious to meet some peo­ple from the tech com­mu­nity, although the tim­ing is not great since most will be busy for year-end hol­i­days and fes­tiv­i­ties. Still, I’ve been able to con­tact some thanks to the serendip­ity of Twit­ter, and hope­fully this will rein­force bridges across the Atlantic. After all, look­ing at this pic­ture of Tel Aviv, you’d think you were in Miami!

  • http://dvirreznik.blogspot.com Dvir Reznik

    you know there’s an Israeli Tweetup (Twit­ter + Meetup) this Wed (or Thu). Every­thing is out­lined at the FB event, no point repeat­ing it here in length, so just a quick sum­mary: One of my good friends across the pond said this dude iscom­ing to Israel, and is very much into social media and col­lab­o­ra­tion — worth meet­ing with. Quick look at his cre­den­tials and I already com­mented on his Israel Visit post to start the dis­cus­sion. I wanted to sug­gest we’ll meet over

  • http://dvirreznik.blogspot.com Dvir Reznik

    Hey Alex,

    Didn’t know you’re com­ing until just now, a mutual friend intro­duced us.

    When will you be at Tel Aviv? we can grab some cof­fee, maybe orga­nize a small Israeli twit­ters gath­er­ing.. ;-)
    http://twitterholic.com/top100/followers/bylocation/Israel/

  • http://alexdc.org Alex de Carvalho

    Hey Dvir, it would be great to do a tweetup in Tel Aviv, I’d love to meet you all! Think we can orga­nize that? Either way, let’s plan to meet up for a cof­fee. I arrive on Tues­day morning.

  • http://stickyslides.blogspot.com Jan Schultink

    Hi Alex, let me know if you want to meet up. Best, Jan

  • http://alexdc.org Alex de Carvalho

    Jan, would be great to meetup. Dvir says we can orga­nize a Tweetup on Wednes­day at 20:30. Oth­er­wise, let’s plan another time. I’ll be arriv­ing Tues­day after­noon and will stay for about 4 days. I’ll be going to Jerusalem at some point as well.

  • http://dvirreznik.blogspot.com Dvir Reznik

    Hey Alex,

    Our tweetup is already up on FB: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=56449581302

    See you Wednes­day @ 20:30, DM if you need direc­tions. Hope­fully we’ll get good turnout in such a short notice — worst case, we’ll grab some beer and burgers.. ;-)

  • http://alexdc.org Alex de Carvalho

    Thanks for set­ting up the Tweetup, Dvir, I look for­ward to see­ing every­one. I will do my best for Wednes­day, how­ever, if it does not rain, I will be going to Jerusalem that night. If we can change this to Thurs­day night, it would be much bet­ter, and I apol­o­gize for the change in plans. See you soon!

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