Being on MySpace, for the European Parliament, is a bit like being adults at a teenagers’ party. When we opened our page during the European Elections campaign, we fed it up with widgets, slide-shows, videos. We were quite welcomed by the MySpace community, we got some good feedback in the press and… And then, just like at a teenagers’ party, when the presence of adults brings a sense of seriousness and some official tonality, soon, the teenagers want to booze, to get high, to dance like brainless ducks and to make out on sofas or behind curtains. The adults become kind of a slight embarrassing presence.

Our MySpace team dressed for action.

After the campaign, we were not quite sure about keeping the EP’s MySpace page. We were quite busy with different Internet projects and we didn’t have the technical resources to redesign the page. Not to mention we were not convinced on what we could actually publish on MySpace.

Fortunately, Raffaella and her project team were working on the editorial coverage of the Copenhagen Summit and they proposed a Quiz combining Christmas with environmental issue, in a funny tone and with nice drawings. We would have loved to produce it in 22 languages but we were running out of time – we could only produce it in English if we wanted it to be ready and available before Christmas and not for Easter. And since we don’t like to publish anything on our Headlines in less than our 22 languages, MySpace came in as an easy solution.

 

The quiz is there. Do not hesitate to embed it. And tell us what you like or don’t like about it – so the next one will be even better.

We will promote it on the European Parliament’s Headlines from next week on, so you can already consider that you’ve seen it here first!