Dmitry Linkov

The weekends passed - again very quickly. They were full of events, I’ll tell you about some of them.

Friday evening we passed relaxing at home. Olga prepared super salad + fried chicken. I was a barmen and prepared some very nice "gluhende Wein". That was a good evening for sure.
Saturday was full of movement - we’ve visited tour company. This NY we will pass in Tallin with our friends. We will take 3 film cameras and shoot everything on our way =). Either VS cafe or Cafe Stereo will be ours NY party place. We are very excited about this 4 day trip. In the evening we met my co-alumni.

The weather is very bad - about +1 -1 degrees (Celcium) and it’s snowy-rainy. Moscow is extremely gray these days and it’s very easy to be depressed - just take a look at the window. Also elections are very close and political pr is everywhere - I’m so tied of it.

I have an idea of post series to this blog. It’s called "Fantastic Statistics". I will collect some interesting statistics information on all themes from Russian media. So stay tuned.

I’m finally lost. As you see I update my blog very little these days. I really want to update it - but from the very beginning I tried to write about business issues. And one day I realized that:

• It’s hard to write only about business;
• I don’t want to write about business only.

It’s hard to change - but this is the only thing I’m left with. Otherwise I will not be able to continue force myself to write here. Maybe you have any ideas on how I can continue? What interests you in my blog? What would you want me to write about?

Also I have problems with all these social networks and web 2.0. Currently I’m registered in:
1. LinkedIn
2. Facebook
3-4. Two more Russia facebook-like sites (actually there are even 3 of these)
5. Livejournal
6. This blog
+ I write in corporate blog and Empatika blog (system thinking project of ours).

It seems like I need to make a choice, but it’s so hard to make…
Guys - please comment! I really want to know your opinion about all this stuff.

Tags: lost in web, blogs, social-networking, need help

Dear friends. It seem like I haven’t updated the site quite a long time. So I’ve decided to rework all the info here.
First of all - About me page is updated.
Second - reworked all the links. I don’t read some of blogs I’ve previously read, but there are new sources for you to check:

1. Presentation Zen - this one is very popular today, but if you haven’t seen it - give it a try. Fantastic material on visual presentation of information.
2. Daniel Pink - blog of Daniel Pink, author of "New agent nation" and "A whole new mind".
3. Survival of the Sickest - blog about one fantastic idea, that humanity needed illnesses in the past to survive. Author of the blog (and the book) Dr. Sharon Moalem.
4. Too much imagination - blog of Ben Mattes, guy from gaming industry. Just a nice blog of interesting person.

Check the links section on the right side of the page. More changes to come.

Tags: site update, links, Dmitry Linkov

Here you can read good lessons from Trevor. Check it out!

Tags: leadership

I was already asked by a my international friends about my new job. I promised to write about it - and here I go. It’s 3 weeks since I am brand manager (editor) in publishing house Mann, Ivanov & Ferber. I’m proud to be manager of the "Stockholm School of Economics" book series, where Tom Peters, Jim Collins, Jesper Kunde, Jonas Riderrstrale and Kjell Nordstrem were published.

You will ask me a question - why I quit with free-agent? The answer is - I didn’t. Our publishing house isn’t a common type of company as you may think. First of all - we don’t have office. Being one of leading publishers in Russia - we don’t have office. As Michael Ivanov said to me "we are a pack of free agents, working together on one project".
We got a fantastic team - very productive, clever and simply good people. And finally books were always my passion - so working in this kind of publishing house is really great.

Tags: mann, ivanov, ferber, publishing, new job

1. Seth Godin recently wrote about a company that books tables in restaurants all over the USA for $1. Do the same in your country.
2. Guy Kawasaki used Logoworks for making a logo for his new site. Use a logoworks model to do the same company in your country.

And finally - make your business even better - only than it will be "fabulous".

I’m becoming lost in Web 2.0 services. So let’s try to summarize all we’ve got for today:

1. Blogging services - Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad and smaller ones.
2. Social Networks / Blogs - Bebo, Frappr, LinkedIn, Myspace (for musicians), Iqons (for design related guys), Deviantart (for designers), Facebook, Vox, Livejournal.
3. Mini blogs services - Twitter, Jaiku. I still didn’t get what is so cool with them.

I will update this post so your contacts are very welcome - together we will be able to make a full list of new web!

Weather in Moscow these days is magnificent. It’s warm but a bit cloudy. Temperature is 22 average and it’s super comfortable for living.

What I noticed is when we are in Egypt/Turkey/any south country - 35°C and even higher is ok. But if you go for example to Moscow and the temperature will be something about 30°C - it will be very hard to stand. Moving north - the same situation. There even 20°C will be very hard for human.
So the idea is - close to equator it’s easier to live in higher temperature (and vice versa).

Let’s check this out! What is the best temperature in your location?

p.s.: image taken from intellicast.com
Tags: weather, moscow

Hello my friends! I’m back from 1 week holidays in Turkey. Before a hardworking second part of the year it was necessary to relax a little bit and get some sea power. =)

More posts coming soon!
Best regards, Dmitry.