Mallorca Tech Newsletter – Issue #088

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📅 MTN 2019 Recap

One of the values on which this project is based on is transparency. Last year I already did the exercise of summarizing the year in numbers so this year I decided to share the figures again to compare both years and see the evolution:

	2018	2019	Dif
👥 subscribers	331	724	54%
💌 issues	42	43	2%
📰 news	230	304	24%
👋 events	275	232	-18%
⚒ job opportunities	390	390	0%
📬 open rate	64%	53%	-11%
🖱 clicks	2400	5175	53%
🖥 blog visits	2500	6500	61%
🐦 twitter followers	430	777	44%
🙏 sponsors	3	5	40%

Overall, the figures are very positive, however I would like to ask you to spend 2 minutes filling out this survey, it would help me a lot to know your opinion and continue to improve.

Once again thank you to all the people who follow this project and share it. Also big thanks to companies that support it and help it continue. Next year we hope to continue with the same positive trend and also some more surprise. Have a happy 2020!

📰 News

🔸 Balearic Islands is the autonomous community with the lowest percentage of innovative companies, according to the latest INE survey. 12.8% of companies with 10 or more people invested in innovation, 7% less than the national average and half that of the leading community, the Basque Country.

🔸 Article in Tecnologa.cat about the cybersecurity expert Nicolas Castellanos and his experience negotiating a “rescue” with cybercriminals on behalf of a Catalan multinational.

🔸 The IES Joan Alcover has been recognized by Google as a reference institution in the use of its educational tools. In four years they have become the first and only public institute of Spain to receive this distinction.

🔸 Interview with Gabriel Escarrer, CEO of Meliá, where he talks about the importance of the company’s digital strategy. Along the same lines, Alba Bustamante, Global Brand Marketing Director of the company, speaks in another interview about the segmentation and the channels for acquiring customers.

🔸 A Definitivas has published their first book: Guía Legal Para Una Startup.

🔸 New version of Veern, an app to manage different timezones.

🔸 The Spotify bot for Telegram MusicBucket, is now available.

🔸 RCD Mallorca has signed a partnership with Deliveroo thanks to which it will be possible to pick up orders made on the platform at the stadium itself during the matches.

 

👋 Events

🔸 15/01 – Dreamforce’19 Highlights. Meeting to review the highlights of the annual Salesforce event, held in San Francisco.

🔸 29/01 – re: Invent 2019 recap and S3. AWS Palma Group Meetup where there will be talks to discuss the news presented at the AWS re: Invent in Las Vegas and about deploying projects with S3 buckets.

🔸 03/02 – EOI and Generation organize a digital marketing course in collaboration with PalmaActiva aimed at people between 18 and 29 years old. 10 weeks full-time duration.

🛠 Job Opportunities