"We are what we pretend to be – so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." Thus the late great American author Kurt Vonnegut defines the moral of his seminal novel Mother Night. It's about an American presumed Nazi propagandist during World War II. Only the reader knows he is in fact [...]
I was lucky enough to be invited by our colleagues from the European Commission at a Master Class given by Paul Boag. Mr Boag is an expert in many things, including web design. The topic of the class was how to work with the system when you have a web-something job in a big organization. [...]
This video is worth weeks of expensive team-building courses sitting in front of flipcharts or building rafts to cross muddy ponds - not that our employer has ever offered us anything like that - and is huge fun into the bargain. It has become part of the collective self-image.
It's blue, it's new and it's online - the redesigned official institutional website of the EU's directly elected democratic lawmaking institution! And, speaking personally, I now know why you don't do this kind of thing too often.
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