Archive for June, 2009
Back behind the wheel for a week
It’s not everyday that one can be in someone’s else skin. Well, it happens to me whenever the French editor is on leave: I am his back-up and I write stories and articles until he comes back. It’s not fully Being John Malkovitch but still, I enjoy it.
Post elections… we need more training or not?
Now that the elections are over, it is amazing to see the peacefulness which has been installed in our corridors…schedules are getting lighter that they already fit in one page, people are already emancipating about going on holidays, many have already flown away…therefore I decided to go for a training – teamwork.
Now what?
The emerging consensus is that the campaign went well. Speaking parochially, we believe the online part of it particularly so. Of course, indulging in a feelgood factor for a while is fine, but the time is coming now for some serious evaluation. What worked, what didn’t, what did but wasn’t worth it…
How did our experiment work?
By Evita & Anete. Before the elections we had the opportunity to carry out a project that was a repetition of an experiment made 50 years ago. We already wrote about the recipe of this experiment and now it is time to summarize the results. Overall we can say that it has been a blissful [...]
Post-electoral depression
Nothing matters any more. The day-to-day work seems quite boring. What’s the aim of the articles we write, if not to increase the turnout in the elections?
Learning to cope with social media
So now it’s all over… Nearly six weeks with intensive online election campaigns. Last week nearly 162 million European voters went to the polls to elect their 736 representatives in the European Parliament. Even though the 43, 2 % turnout is the lowest ever, it was way better than most analyst had expected before the [...]
My mama told me so
Dear reader, our team is coming up with a lot of new antics to ensure that our website is attractive to the reader and to make sure every European citizen is informed about what the European Parliament is doing for him and her! Hence, we are all looking forward to the eve of 7 June [...]
Twitter HQ
Parliament’s web team has become so accustomed over recent months to working on the elections communication campaign that it has become a way of life. So much so that it is actually quite disconcerting that the elections are actually now upon us. The Brits and Dutch have already voted, and, as I write, the Irish [...]
Voting from exotic spots!
Finnish citizen Joanna Chellapermal was basking in the sun along Bali beaches, not even intending to use her right to vote in the EU elections. When suddenly….here she is in Jakarta using precisely that ONE…. She writes: I had not intended to vote in the EP elections originally. Had I been in Europe it would have [...]
To be a digital non-citizen
“Svetla, what is a blog?” asked recently my mother in law. She is one of those who possess an always switched off mobile phone. She doesn’t write e-mails and uses the laptop for typing her own translations of French poetry. The fact that I work as an online editor makes me look in her eyes [...]
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