One week in Greece Part III (final)

After a week in sunny and warm Greece back to Holland with cold and snow as you see in this picture taken the other days from my office window (this is the university central plaza)

 The time in Thessaloniki was very interesting; I found out that the interest about Social Media Marketing is in Greece as intense as everywhere else. All of my lectures in the University of Macedonia and the CITI College (picture below) were visited by many students and also people from the field with very interesting and challenging questions.

For me it was especially challenging to give two lectures in Greek for the first time!! In any case things went well. I also had a lot of interesting discussions with colleagues and PhD students; we discussed various ideas for future cooperation.

From this blog I would like to thank once more all persons who contributed to a very nice and useful week in Greece for my students and me. My students just sent me the link for their film from Athens in YouTube

One week in Greece Part II: Cultural Cross Media in Thessaloniki

The second part of my Greek week included a train trip from Athens the Thessaloniki. I did this trip for the last time when I was 14!! This time the trip was much faster (about 5 hours, not bad for a Greek train covering a distance of 500 km) and more comfortable. In Thessaloniki I was invited to give a lecture by my colleage dr. Aris Matopoulos from the CITY College of the University of Sheffield and two lectures by my colleague prof. Maro Vlachopoulou from the University of Macedonia.

Thessaloniki is a great city with a lot of entertainment and cultural options and not to forget great culinary tradition: you find there some of the best examples of Greek food for very reasonable prices.
Between the lectures there was also time to visit a few monuments and museums I never visited before: The marvelous museum of Byzantine Culture and the Thessaloniki Archeological Museum.
This last museum was a must for me because I knew that there was a digital exposition there called “Macedonia: From Fragments to Pixels”. After the experiences with the Acropolis Museum (see previous blog) I was very curious to see these apps. Two of them I found very interesting: the POLYAPTON ( could be translated as Multi-touch) and the Multimodal Diverse Travel . Many interesting options to make such tools part of a Museum online and social media based marketing.