Update: Estonian Free Press – Something You Might Want to Know

Since the first three months of 2010 already brought an incredible amount of news on our columns, it is now time to stop for a little while and explain our readers what has been going on in the bizarre rooms of Estonian Free Press.

Right after the change of our layout – something we urged for giving more space to the news and for allowing a better and faster navigation of the site – we also had the great pleasure of welcoming in our team a new valuable member, Jaanus Karlson, and I am sure this is the right point for starting this unusual editorial.

Jaanus, a young Estonian currently based in U.K., immediately started to add a great value to Estonian Free Press with his interesting contributions and with a critical yet analytical approach to the events of the country – a great start that, to us, sounds also as a very important sign of the potential development EFP could achieve already in the next months.

In addition to that, the last weeks witnessed also the conclusion of two highly significant editorial agreements. One is with the young-but-interesting Lithuania Tribune, a cooperation that will allow us to offer you facts about Lithuania and will (hopefully) make the name of Estonian Free Press more known also among Lithuanians.

The second one, then, is something that makes us feel deeply rewarded for the efforts made till now on our constant try of being as objective and reliable as possible in our work. Starting from the end of this month, in fact, our articles will also start being published also on the column of Vaba Eesti Sõna, the only magazine in Estonian published in the United States.

Thanks to the attention and kindness of its editor-in-chief, Ms. Kärt Ulman, our works will populate the English page of the weekly bringing all the latest facts about Estonia around the United States and – again, hopefully – broadening the audience of people interested on discovering more about our Baltic State.

Keyword: Interaction and Offline

Bringing back the Cafebabel.com philosophy of getting to know our readers and start living and developing together with them, the next months will see an always greater focus on initiatives that will try to involve you all more into the life of EFP, participating to events and interacting to the magazine in a way we did not have till now.

Starting from today, as you might have seen even before starting to read this column, we will give our readers the opportunity to express themselves voting on weekly polls that will touch all the hottest issues in the political life.

The one about prostitution we propose starting from today is somehow an introduction to a series of articles ready to come on our pages and will be followed by different questions related to all the most sensitive spots of our life in Estonia.

And the polls are nothing but a beginning, since soon our –and your – involvement on the life of Estonian Free Press will keep growing thanks to all the opportunities offered by our active presence on Twitter and Facebook as some advanced services that will allow you to interact with us and have your say on everything right from the only thing that makes you come back home when you forget it there: your mobile phone.

But since interaction cannot be only virtual, it is finally time for us to go offline and to show ourselves to the people, trying to convince even more of those ones we have around that this magazine might be worth a visit after all.

On Saturday 27^th of March our photo exposition “I Shot the Crisis” will appear in Rotermanni Keskus in Tallinn for the whole FÖÖ – Foto öö organized by ArtFactory ( more info to come ) for moving then to Drink Baar on the next Monday and “delighting” customers with the photos our readers decided representing the hard times Estonia is living the best.

Right after the exposition, it will then be time to move on the big screen and offer our readers the possibility to participate to some projects that will bring some of the most acclaimed European classics in the history of cinema straight to the cinema halls in Tallinn thanks to the interest and commitment of several Embassies in Tallinn.

All this while, we hope, we will still keep your trust and attention with our daily news about Estonia