Archive for September, 2008
A New Baby in the House
Suddenly, as happens in many families, the youngest sibling is not the youngest any more. The Web Communications unit has long traded on its image as the youngest and hippest unit in the DG Communication family. Maybe, just now and then, we have been able to get away with things our older brethren couldn’t have [...]
What I was thinking this morning…
Was is the lengthy summer break back home in the north, the African week we had in the Parliament, or the sound of Islamic religious singing that woke me up? This morning, my head was filled with thoughts on our multicultural Brussels and Europe.
Of Hairspray and Handgrips
Not so much about the job, this one, more just about the internet, our medium rather than our message. It isn’t either profound or insightful, indeed I am ten years on the uptake, but sometimes something just happens which makes a point particularly well. Who knows, the practical information I will, rather incidentally, pass on [...]
Get ready!
After a crazy (in the bad sense) start of the week – a creative project that made the second half crazy as well, but in a good sense :) We will never look at the plenary chamber, toilet mirrors, interpreter booths, TV sets and TV studios, carton boxes, popcorn, ushers, Pietro and, definitely, Fred the same.
She is coming! And I saw her first!
In one month (8th October), Ingrid Betancourt will come to the European Parliament, and I imagine every single member of this team would love to interview her… If the agenda of the visit is not very tight, if she is not very tired, if we manage to get an interview with her, if….you will see [...]
A penny or a farthing for “Headlines”
“Headlines” comes to you for free but you may be surprised what a lot of selling, commercialisation, advertising, negotiation goes behind the screen. The editor-in- charge of the article follows the news and when an interesting story comes up his way he defines the angle to make it appeal to the readers. Proving that is [...]
A Whole New Box of Tricks
Sometimes you’ve got to run to stand still. So they say. And its certainly true of anyone in the internet publishing business. Both the technology and the (of course, related) fashion move so fast that if you don’t innovate you’re very quickly hopelessly antiquated and/or unhip. It was in this business that, in spring 2008, [...]
Hats off!?
The right hat for the right head goes the expression! But what happens when the head is missing!? Void? Empty? That is exactly how it feels to spend a summer in the European Parliament. Summer recess started on July 21 in the turquoise week, meaning that the MEPs could return to their constituency. Recess in [...]
My first time with Alanis Morissette…
I love my job because sometime is in movement. I love it when I have pressure on my shoulders and I need to think, react and shoot as quickly as I can, and sometimes also quicker than I could! [...]
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