I’d like to welcome two of migoa’s employees, Victor Aloi and Kirsten Kottman to the world of blogging.

They’ll be writing about what it’s like to live in Barcelona as young expats, real estate news generally, and the challenges and joys of promoting nuroa and trying to make it into a market-leading property search engine.

Victor is our 26 year old product manager for Spain. He started out as an intern (while he was getting a masters in corporate communications and advertising) but impressed so much that we hired him full-time back in June. In Brazil, he studied journalism and had a very popular personal blog. In addition to being a co-worker he’s also one of my best friends in Barcelona (which happened after we started working together). His blog will be in Spanish.

Kirsten is our German community manager. She’s originally from Berlin (one of my favorite cities in the world) but now lives in Barcelona (my favorite city in the world). Her background is in PR and journalism, including a stint at MTV. She’s really cool and really hard-working, and we’re lucky to have her. Her blog will be written in German. I’m looking forward to seeing how she deals with our collective craziness at our next party, which I hope will be a drunken karaoke session.

So far, the best blogger of our bunch is still Carlos, who continues to inspire us all! In fact, Carlos was going to do our presentation at Ojobuscador before it got cancelled. We miss him, but a good education is the most important thing, even more important than working at migoa!

We’ll see if Kirsten and Victor can make up for lost time and give Carlos a run for his money!