Archive for the ‘Community’ Category

Removed inactive members

The worldwide free accommodations on belodged.com are based on the activity of all members. So we remove inactive members (who did not activate the “absence”-function”) on a regular basis.  Today we deleted another 87 members.
For all others: It’s fun seeing the community growing up. Hope to see you soon somewhere in this world ;o).

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Proudly presenting: the 'Community Ambassador'

The time is over where technical nerds raked up the discussion boards and answered your questions. From now on any e-mail correspondence from ‘programmers’ to the belodged.com community is stopped.  Only the cool Twitter tool remains in the hands of the belodged.com staff.  Once the team finishes sending Twitter messages, this will also be passed [...]

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Small but nice improvement in the messaging system

As you know: You will be notified about every message in the anonymous messaging system in belodged.com. This notification is an e-mail you will get. Starting from now on the link in the notification will redirect you straight to the login form. AND after login you will be redirected straight to the inbox to read [...]

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Wonderful Glastonbury Festival – just awesome!

Despite of the impact of Michael Jackson’s sudden death the spirit of this year’s festival seemed to be fantastic: Look at these atmospheric and amazing pictures of the Glastonbury festival 2009, Europe’s largest greenfield and open-air music festival!

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Latest news: Ayatullah Ali Khamenei rejects poll fraud claims!

This week’s protests in Iran are truly unprecedented in the history of the Islamic Republic (on Thursday 18th of June, a million people, who feel cheated, demonstrated in the streets of Tehran and even more protests are taking place all over the country!) and today, Friday, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei insisted there had [...]

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TOP 12 cities offering free accommodations

As we yet wrote earlier (Top 10 countries) the belodged.com community is on its way to expand home hosting free of charge all over the world. So the following list gives you an interesting overview about the top 12 cities where quite a considerable amount of overnight accommodation is offered by belodged.com members:
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Free home accommodation instead of antiseptic hotel stopover – Top 10 countries!

The belodged.com community grows increasingly every day and the great number of members offering free lodging in various countries and cities accordingly. That’s why we thought that you would be interested in a first TOP 10 countries ranking of belodged.com members providing private overnight accommodations free of charge.
As you can see the belodged.com community [...]

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Joint, hassle-free hospitality between belodged.com members? Your guidebook!

Recommended by the belodged.com community you will find below a small guide of examples and advices for a smooth get-together of belodged.com hosts with visitors.

Hosting international people can be an enjoyable and exciting experience for all involved. We hope that the following questions and answers will be helpful to hosts (actually at belodged.com all members [...]

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Hospitality portals: using accommodation safely

Daniel Hofer, the co-founder of CS made the point in front of a small audience at the Berkman Center (April 2009): “You can not be for sure. If anyone says: Can you guarantee that couchsurfing is safe? I say no – absolutely not! There is no guarantee at all.”
First of all let us clearly emphasize: [...]

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avanti! and belodged.com together for intercultural exchange!

avanti! Jobs, Education and Career Abroad took the ‘free lodging’ project idea from belodged.com which help to find affordable accommodation while staying abroad. “Your presence as an exhibitor would be of great interest, too, because you demonstrate possibilities how to find accommodation during an internship in a foreign country…” says Ms. Juliane Schmeling, PM of [...]

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