Expat-blog an one way-street??

Hi Dittmar and welcome on board,

have you already introduced yourself or asked questions on the Estonia forum ?

This would definitely be a good start for meeting people in Estonia

All the best,

Julien

hi here,
Yes, I am already member of your expat-blog. Only, I not see this is working. This is more an advertising blog to generate money. Maybe not more.
With regards
Dittmar

Dittmar wrote:

hi here,
Yes, I am already member of your expat-blog. Only, I not see this is working. This is more an advertising blog to generate money. Maybe not more.
With regards
Dittmar

One of the features of this site is that a wide variety of thoughts and opinions are welcomed.
Many members tend to stick with this place because it's so useful and informative to us, both as expats, and people interested in learning a little of other cultures.

I'm from Yorkshire, just outside England.
In Yorkshire, we tend to say what we think and, as you'll come to see, we have little chance of joining a diplomatic mission because we don't give a flying rats who we upset when we feel we need to say something.

You wander in, insult the site (that including it's owners and members) and advertise your own place whilst complaining about advertising on this site.

Basically, if you don't like it, sod off.

Hello Dittmar,

I'm sorry, but I couldn't disagree with you more. Maybe once you've been a member of the blog for a while (longer than someone who has posted only 4 times, two of them here) then you might have some clear idea what Expat-blog is all about. I'm not aware of how active the Estonia Forum is, but I can tell you from years of membership experience that the Brazil Forum and other Latin-American Forums, US, Canada, and most of the other national forums are extremely active, information and opinions are freely shared on them and they're not at all the "one-way street" that you seem to invision.

I'd ask you to take some time to look around at the other national forums, and international forums on the main page and see just how active they are. I think that will be more than sufficient to change your point of view. Networking, making friends, sharing ideas is a whole lot more than just posting one topic saying essentially, "Hi, I'm here, my name is XXXX and you can contact me at YYYYY" and then sitting back expecting everybody to beat a path to your door, rather than reaching out to them, communicating, interacting and proactively building that network.

I'll try to be generous and will therefore just write your rather unjustified complaint off to the fact that you've not been here long enough to know anything about Expat-blog in the first place. I've been here for a number of years now, I participate on many forums aside from the Brazil and Canada Forums. I've got a contact list that goes on for page after page after page. Rome was not built in a day..... stick around for a while, participate actively, communicate and interact with other members and see what happens. I know you'll be pleasantly surprised. Or, of course you can leave it with just 4 postings, two of which complain about nobody communicating, then you'll get bored, lose interest completely, drop your membership and the rest of us will go on just as before.... enjoying every minute of our involvement with Expat-blog.

Cheers,
William James Woodward, Expat-blog Experts Team

wjwoodward wrote:

Hello Dittmar,

Maybe once you've been a member of the blog for a while (longer than someone who has posted only 4 times, two of them here)

I'd ask you to take some time to look around at the other national forums, and international forums on the main page and see just how active they are.

James, old chap, you're so ...........

po·lite
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adjective
comparative adjective: politer
1.
having or showing behavior that is respectful and considerate of other people.
"they thought she was wrong but were too polite to say so"
synonyms:    well-mannered, civil, courteous, mannerly, respectful, deferential, well-behaved, well-bred, gentlemanly, ladylike, genteel, gracious, urbane;

I had to google in an attempt to understand the meaning,

thank you very much for your comment. I think i am almost 2 years on this blog and tried to make contacts. Unfortunately the response was less and when i put my job search on the blog i got only mails of advertising. Nothing serious.
But thanks again for your comment.....
With regards
Dittmar

Dear William,
thank you very much for your comment.You wrote this from official site of Expat.com. Before I wrote my comment I was considering to do or not to do. I put this in discussion because I found reasons to to this. Only i can tell you to try to make contacts here in Estonia was not so successful and after I put my job ad on the blog I got a lot of advertising offers. Nothing serious. From my point of view justified and I started asking questions. I know sometimes are questions not so welcome or not comfort in organizations like this. I will not longer argue about my experience on the Expat.com because it takes of me a lot of time too. Maybe I will be take your advice and I will go deeper into the network.
Thanks again for your generous comment
With regards
Dittmar

Dittmar ...

I think i am almost 2 years on this blog and tried to make contacts

we can see on this page that you've registered in July 2013 ...

and regarding your previous messages before today, here they are :

https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=280486https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=280481

How can Expat.com help you if you don't even reply to the questions asked, and if you stay passive for months ?

This said, we all would be really happy to help. Maybe you should participate a bit on the Estonia forum ?

Hello Dittmar,

First of all, despite my title Expat-blog Expert, I am just regular member like everybody else. The only difference is that I have volunteered my time, effort and expertise for the betterment of the blog and to help all of its members. I don't receive one single cent for all the work I put in and believe me it is considerable. I spend several hours a day here helping people all over the world.

This is why I can say from my own experience that you're simply wrong in your impression of what Expat-blog really is and what it is all about. If I could make up a motto for Expat-blog I couldn't have chosen a better one than they already have - "Share your expat experience". That's what we're all about sharing.

You've really not chosen to do that up until now, for whatever your reasons may be. I can tell you without any reservations whatsoever that is the reason that you're not getting contacted by members here. You've chosen essentially to remain INVISIBLE. In forum language this is what we call a "lurker", someone who will read posts, yet hardly ever participate or comment. I find it quite ironic that the vast majority of complaints about Expat-blog come from lurkers or new members who've never posted anything wanting the Administration Team of Expat-blog to change everything conceivable just to suit them.

As I mentioned before my contact list goes on for pages, I receive numerous private messages every single day from all over the globe; contact requests too. Why? Simply because I participate a lot, I'm know by a large number of our members and I do my very best to give accurate, helpful and well considered information and advice to anyone who genuinely seeks it. You can do exactly the same thing too, so can anyone here. It's simply a matter of salesmanship! How does a salesman market his product? He does one thing only, shows it to be VALUEABLE to everybody and lets it sell itself. Here it's no different, you are the product you're selling, make it valueable to the rest of the members and it sells itself, or more correctly you sell yourself!!!

It's just like the many expats I know who come to a new country and then start complaining that they can't seem to make any friends there. Generally it is because they simply aren't trying to do so... they either isolate themselves in a tightly knit group of other expats from their own country or they simply don't put out the effort to meet new people. How can someone like that blame the entire population of their host country for their inability to make friends?

Cheers,
William James Woodward, Expat-blog Experts Team

volunteering, working long hours and loving every minute here on Expat-blog!

Dear Founder,
with respect I am a little bit longer here. With respect, I think you could not have all cross information about all activities in and out and over emails.
I will take your advise wisely to go deeper into the network and maybe we can after few month make an objective resume.
I will not start to reply my reasons for my open discussion. I told that your college today.

with regards
Dittmar

Dittmar,

From my personal experience, I can tell you one thing. Expat-blog is a vibrant and caring community of like minded people. We share our experiences and help, advise, guide and support fellow expats. I started participating in this site last year and very soon got so engrossed in it since I enjoy the social factor and helping out other people settle down in a new country.

One thing this site is not - its not an advertising site. Don't take my word for it, go check the various pages and the classifieds yourself.

Popularising your own site is fine, but please do not do it by putting some one else's hard work down. Be positive in your efforts and you will be successful. If you are negative, then your efforts will also suffer. Best wishes.

Dittmar

So you expected a million replies when you posted on the Estonia section of this forum. Probably expecting far too much from such a place.
I agree with previous comments about your post and if you don't like it, leave.

Dittmar,

You have two (count them) two posting on the Estonia Forum, a forum which by the way is not extremely active compared to many others.

Your one post was simply "tere tere", whatever the heck that means. If it was some foreign language then you shouldn't have posted it at all on an Anglophone Forum.

Your other post was asking about finding a job, which to my way of thinking was really your only significant posting. However you never responded with any information about yourself as requested twice and it is therefore not surprising that you didn't get much of a response in the ensuing 6 months especially on a low activity forum like Estonia.

So one REAL posting (or should I say half) and then you come here whining. I'd call that two things impossible expectations and pure lack of interest on your part. You're a real piece of work I must say!

Thank you for your comment. I will considering.
with regards
Dittmar

Dear William,
thanks again for your comment. Unfortenuately i not see the context. Sorry.
Sorry, you not have all information.
I got a lot of comments in this sake and I gave all a return in a friendly way.
With regards
Dittmar

Dear Founder,
I got a lot of critical and also much helpful information or answers from the members and I gave all a friendly reply and I said thank you for their support.
With regards
Dittmar
P.S. I not found the possibility to unsubscribe my Expat.com. Do you can guide me where  I could do this?

Dittmar wrote:

Hello there,
what do you think? Is expat an one way street.In my opinion yes, it is an one way-street because I see this blog as advertising blog. I want to built up a real network for people who wants live and work in Estonia. Who interested is send please an email to dittmarroesener@gmail.com. Thank you.
Dittmar

Hello Dittmar,

I read your posts last week but I decided to reply only when the dust settled.  I am an elegant guy and did not want to be caught in the crossfire.  Also, I hope you will appreciate the fact that I refused to be in the firing squad executing you.

Now that you survived rapid fire and fully recovered, I must say this:

1). Yes, you are correct, this forum is a 1-way street.
The full address is

1 Success Drive
Information Highway U2 ME2
Cyber Space

This is a business, NOT a charity, and you get a lot for your US$0 membership fee.
You – as a true German from Europe’s #1 country: Germany – cannot blame people for their special achievements.
After all, you want to be like them.

You wanted to start an expat forum in Estonia but there is not enough interest among expats.
Well, consider including Latvia and Lithuania, because they too are Baltic States and chances are you will get some extra expats.

You may also consider offering consultancies for your profession. Germans are in high demand everywhere.

You can easily offer full relocation services to expats coming to the Baltics.
Perhaps your Estonian wife can help and be part of your new business.

You have a lot to learn and a lot of work to do. Can you do it? 

Good luck!  Vielen Gluck! 

Dear John C.,
Thank you very much for your comment. I really appriciate.
It was helpful too. Meanwhile I see what is possibile or not possible in organizationen like this.
I started to go back to my old, also US, roots. Do it by your own and not wait that someone bring you a gift and not expect to much.
Now I am considering to start business here in Estonia.
Thanks again and I hope we could stay keep in touch.
With regards
Dittmar

Hi John,

And you call me a WORDSMITH??? Wow, you don't do too bad yourself my friend. I haven't seen such an eloquent posting here on the blog for a very long time. As we say here in Brazil, "Meus parabéns rapaz!"

Cheers,
James

wjwoodward wrote:

I haven't seen such an eloquent posting here on the blog for a very long time.

What about me?
I'm a really eloquent poster - i use all the really big words and even get some grammar proper right.

Sorry Fred, didn't mean to exclude you..... yes, you do have some pretty eloquent posts too. Got to admit too that your Gramma is improving. BTW, how old is she anyway?

What do you feed that sheep to keep him jumping like that all the time? Want to know so I don't accidentally feed it to my son. He doesn't need to be any more energetic.

Cheers,
James

hi joel,
my skype is dittmar.roesener. Please feel free to call me or try to call me. my email is   dittmarroesener(at)gmail.com    What is your profession? What languages do you talk?
I hope i will hear from you.
With regards
Dittmar

wjwoodward wrote:

Hi John,

And you call me a WORDSMITH??? Wow, you don't do too bad yourself my friend. I haven't seen such an eloquent posting here on the blog for a very long time. As we say here in Brazil, "Meus parabéns rapaz!"

Cheers,
James

Thank you.
I call myself an IDEASMITH because I walk on the only 1-way street I know: from little to big, from hate to adulation, from low to high, from losing to winning, from nothing to something, from high to higher.

Now I am runnig competing on this 1-way portal expat-blog.com where I managed to excape from Contributor to rise to EB Member+ (is there such thing as EB Member-  ???) to become #1.

Watch for more to come from me. 

Dittmar wrote:

hi joel,
my skype is dittmar.roesener. Please feel free to call me or try to call me. my email is   dittmarroesener(at)gmail.com    What is your profession? What languages do you talk?
I hope i will hear from you.
With regards
Dittmar

Hello Dittmar,

One week ago you were crying for mommy , then you were sad asking for your account to be deleted and now you are open for business offering your Skype ID and e-mail address to your first potential customer.

What a change of heart! 

It seems my work is done here. 

You done good fred.

Dittmar wrote:

Dear John C.,
Thank you very much for your comment. I really appriciate.
It was helpful too. Meanwhile I see what is possibile or not possible in organizationen like this.
I started to go back to my old, also US, roots. Do it by your own and not wait that someone bring you a gift and not expect to much.
Now I am considering to start business here in Estonia.
Thanks again and I hope we could stay keep in touch.
With regards
Dittmar

Hi Dittmar,
You may want to contact Beppi, who is German speaking Hoch Deutsch and a Germany & Singapore Expert.  He may give you some fast ideas to jumpstart an immigration consultancy business in Tartu.
Send him a private message at https://www.expat.com/forum/profile.php … &udi=15934

HaileyinHongKong wrote:

I like one way streets.

HaileyinHongKong wrote:

John C. wrote:

Now I am runnig competing on this 1-way portal expat-blog.com where I managed to excape from Contributor to rise to EB Member+ (is there such thing as EB Member-  ???) to become #1.

This says it all.

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I hope that, if you like 1-way streets, you also like 1-way streeters. 

Hello Dittmar,

One month has passed since you started this thread.  I hope your Baltic States Expat venture is up and running now.
Spring is coming and there will be many people relocating to where you live, and many people will also want to relocate to Germany whom you can advise properly.
You can get a lot of business if you can handle it. 

In everything you do, remember to never give Germans a bad name.
They are superior, because all the other people like to remain inferior.

This advice comes from someone who is the German of the Germans: John C.

hello
i'm new to this site! I took time out to read the thread and the one that makes me laugh is ..... is .... the one who wrote this:
"hello Dittmar,

I read your posts last week but I decided to reply only when the dust settled.  I am an elegant guy and did not want to be caught in the crossfire.  Also, I hope you will appreciate the fact that I refused to be in the firing squad executing you.

best regards,

Christelle

hi again
sorry , I should have read the next ones...

To me the champion is JAMES:

"What do you feed that sheep to keep him jumping like that all the time? Want to know so I don't accidentally feed it to my son. He doesn't need to be any more energetic.

Thank you!! Thanks to you i had my 5 minutes of laugh:

christ974 wrote:

hi again
sorry , I should have read the next ones...

To me the champion is JAMES:

"What do you feed that sheep to keep him jumping like that all the time? Want to know so I don't accidentally feed it to my son. He doesn't need to be any more energetic.

Thank you!! Thanks to you i had my 5 minutes of laugh:

Hi Christelle,

You simply cannot be amused by my very special work and then recant a few minutes later to declare James the champion here. 
There are things which CANNOT be re-done, not to mention that Dittmar thanked no one else but ME, and James himself was amazed by my talent and secret powers.
Life is indeed a 1-way street. 

hello,

I do apologize...
you did a great job indeed: that was so british!!! You're a gentleman for sure!!
But that bouncing sheep popped in all of a sudden and I laughed out loud! there was war and suddenly poof!! no more!!
And this is mainly i must admitt you make up a terrific team!!

looking forward to reading you,

Christelle

christ974 wrote:

hello,

I do apologize...
you did a great job indeed: that was so british!!! You're a gentleman for sure!!
But that bouncing sheep popped in all of a sudden and I laughed out loud! there was war and suddenly poof!! no more!!
And this is mainly i must admitt you make up a terrific team!!

looking forward to reading you,

Christelle

By the way, I ORDER you to add a picture to your profile. 
If you do not do it by Monday evening my time http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_LC.aspx, I shall start heavy artillery fire in your direction.

I shall even send my spies to your door to check whether the pic you will be attaching to your profile is in fact yours.

You simply CANNOT lie to me because I am offering only the best to you and demand of you the same in return.