Archive for October, 2008
There is more to Translate than the Edit?*
I will now give a glance on the synopsis as I see it. Debate over so called skeleton is an everyday topic and cause of that maybe a bit worn. My apologizes. I have been working on different synopses over three weeks and this experience I would like to share from the stagiaire point of [...]
Put a virus in your life!
Let’s be cool, let’s put a virus in our life. It is the trend of the moment. You just need a good and powerful one, it will spread all around and reach people you never though it would.
We’re lookin’ good! … I think
As evening draws in and the shadow of the night descends on the web-editor’s soul, questions niggle…
She came… and I just saw her
There are people that mean something to us personally, that can touch us with their story and whom we really want to take the opportunity of talking to: it can be now or never. I am sure each one of us has at least a name to say, someone they would really like to ask about an experience, an opinion, a fact. In my case one of those big names is Ingrid Betancourt.
The fun of writing under an invisibility cloak
In September the editorial team of the Parliament’s front page website was sent to media training with an experienced pro. He read our texts and than gave us a lashing. Being ripped to pieces is actually less painful, if the text in question does not have your name directly attached to it. It´s like writing [...]
How far can you go (online)?
Back to our seminar of 29-30 September (see previous post). The Big Issue. At events such as this seminar, one subject often emerges as the one which sets the debate alive, gets people disagreeing with each other and spills over into the conversations at the table later. It may have been me who set the [...]
How not to be a top communications agency
On 29-30 September, Parliament’s Directorate for the Media upped sticks to one of those leafy locations in the Brussels commuter belt for a day and a half’s think-in about our plans for the 2009 European elections. It is often hard to say what one gets out of such large scale seminars, though the bonding value [...]
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