Federico Bastiani

«I DID THE POSSIBLE, I AM DOING THE IMPOSSIBILE,
I AM WORKING ON MIRACLES»

Ubuntu Solutions

Ubuntu is a word of Zulu origin that does not have a specific translation in Italian, it could be translated with “I am what I am because of others”.  It is a definition that I appreciate very much and that represents the professional path that led me to creating Ubuntu Solutions.  I have been involved with communication for more than twenty years. I started as a journalist, then moved towards…

Communication specialist

I co-ordinate the development of corporate communication strategies for select clients. I study and observe entrepreneurial or social realities in my unique way and I try to enhance their image on social networks by using a considered storytelling strategy (live blogging etc), I also handle the management of website content and their blogs and media / print visibility. When my interest is peaked in an idea or a project, I…

Press officer

I have been the personal assistant and press officer of the international economist, Loretta Napoleoni since 2009. I manage her personal agenda, organise logistics, manage her social networks and website, i keep contact with the press and i promote her books launches in Italy and abroad coordinating the foreign publishers…

Journalist

I am freelance journalist. I started writing in 2001 for Serverdonne, the Womens Center in Bologna contributing to the survey “women without borders” with the goal to tell stories of women who fight for their ideals. I never stopped writing and today i cooperate with many national magazines such as Grazia, City, Max, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Popoli, Left, Diario etc..…

Social innovator

In September 2013 i started a social project with the target to rebuild the social bond inside a city, and so Social Street was born. This started as a sort of “experiment” creating a facebook group “residents in Via Fondazza – Bologna – Social street”. This approach based on non-reciprocal/non-obligatory socialising, to create a trust relationship amongst neighbours, an economy based on gifts and exchange, these are elements that have…

Writer’s agent

Sono l’agente letterario dell’esploratore e professore inglese George Meegan che dal 1977 al 1983 ha percorso a piedi il continente americano entrando per questo nel Guinness dei primati. La sua storia, pubblicata negli Stati Uniti negli anni ’80 “the longest walk”, è stata pubblicata grazie al mio operato, dall’editore Mursia nel 2012 con il titolo “la grande camminata”…

Sub-edited a book

In 2010 I sub-edited for Rizzoli Publishers ( one of the main italian publishers) the book “A riveder le stelle”, one of the first book on the opposition political party Movimento 5 stelle…

Startupper

In 2012 i was instrumental in the creation of Emotid: the first online platform in the world based on the sharing emotions and emotional intelligence.…