Has plagiarism finally arrived to the EU online public space? (updated 7x,...
Another attempt to dash off a post without making it an epic, based on whatever’s in my Inbox/ToDo. This time: Facebook, Twitter: are these the unavoidable tools for the future of European democracy?...
View ArticleDoes more transparency make better comms?
The answer to this post’s title may be so obvious that you wonder why it needs writing, but Jon Worth’s idea to get a Blogging Day for greater European Parliament transparency together got me thinking...
View ArticleWhat “The Filter Bubble” means for the Brussels Bubble
“The Filter Bubble”, by MoveOn.org foreign policy director Eli Pariser, shows that the forces creating the Brussels Bubble are about to be reinforced by technology, operated invisibly – and with...
View ArticleWhat is influence? or, Why I don’t care about my Klout score (updated)
The subject of Klout has come up a few times on Twitter, so I’m posting this so I can point people toward a few articles I’ve found useful. Something I can’t do in 140 characters. Which proves my...
View ArticleSimon Anholt on EU propaganda
Last year, in the runup to the first EuropCom conference, I gave it a bit of a hard time. My cynicism was confirmed by many I knew who went, describing it as a conference about Web2 and social media...
View ArticleDo we need more EU platforms, or sustainable EU media? (Updated)
In response to @SocialEUJ, because Twitter sometimes (usually) doesn’t give you the room one needs … On November 8, MEPs will discuss ’10 concrete political proposals’ for creating the European public...
View ArticleEU Online Public Space – the PreziCast (updated)
A few weeks ago I was asked to give a training on the EU online public space to a group of political science PhDs taking part in the EXACT Marie-Curie training programme (pre-session discussion here)....
View ArticleAn alternative overarching EU communication strategy?
At last, an opportunity to blog about gardening and EU comms in the same post. Those who managed to sit through some or all of my Prezicast on the EU online public space would have picked up the fact...
View Article10 things the EU should probably know about social media
The ever-excellent For Immediate Release (episode 638) put me onto 10 things you still need to know about social media / social business, by Olivier Blanchard (aka the Brand Builder), which sounds like...
View ArticleTo blog or not to blog?
I smiled wryly this weekend as I saw more tweets by people publicly abandoning some of their social media platforms – i.e., giving up on Facebook in favour of Twitter, or LinkedIn in favour of Google+....
View ArticleCompetition: rebrand bloggingportal (updated)
It’s not strictly necessary to rebrand bloggingportal, but everyone I’ve spoken to thinks it’s a good idea, so why not have a little competition? This is more about coming up with a neat idea than...
View ArticleHashtag Europe dans one minute de video en franglais, wireframes compris!
Pour le Journée Européenne du blogging multilingue, a video of one minute (waltz) length sur the bloggingportal.eu reboot, avec une “first look” à les wireframes et pas un mot dans mon accent francais...
View ArticleA brief history – and future – of the tag in Europe (updated)
<update date = 29/11/13> It went pretty well, given that it took 15 minutes to get a working wifi and the projector died at least 4 times… For what it’s worth, here’s the Prezi I gave....
View ArticleHashtag Europe: the Developers’ Cut (Updated)
[Update 11/1/14: some FAQAOs added below.] This video is aimed at developers interested in combining machine translation, automatic semantic analysis, human curation, faceted and federated search, and...
View ArticleNetwork anatomy of the EU online public sphere
[update, 31/12/2013: literally hours after this post came Tony Lockett's Mapping the EU digital public sphere(s)] The above image is from Drake Baer‘s FastCompany article “Why Successful People Have So...
View ArticleEU public sphere blogtour: half full, or half empty?
Kübler-Ross You can go for months without a good post on the EU public sphere, and then a whole bunch come along at once. As I prepare for this Saturday’s meeting of those BloggingPortal Editors who...
View ArticleFactCheck EU or Grilling Kippers?
Tonight I’ll be toddling along to Grilling Kippers, a UKIP-focused anti-Eurosceptic campaign from deep within the Brussels Bubble. When I first heard about this, my initial reaction was to worry about...
View ArticleBloggingPortal, meet Apache Stanbol
Well, plus ca change – absolutely none of the things some BloggingPortal editors said we’d do after our meeting in January have been done, apart from our own posts and what Stefan did, which is ironic...
View ArticleDialogue of the deaf: interpreting the election results
Over 70% of EU voters did not vote for the EU. Where now? There will no doubt be, as Ron Patz predicted Sunday, endless analyses of the EP 2014 results, with analysts furiously and spuriously spinning...
View ArticleBlogging on LinkedIn, or Paying on Facebook?
Since trying and half-rejecting Google+ and Tumblr, I’ve been accepted as a LinkedIn blogger. At least I never bothered with Facebook. [6/6/14: Updated re: LinkedIn stats, below] Last summer I...
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