Archive for June, 2010
Fair price for a fair day’s work
That’s the battle cry of farmers who see their income fall as supermarket profit margins rise. The supermarkets have their own culprit: the politicians. See this video clip.
Facebook: 4 reasons to hope and 7 reasons to keep going
Last Tuesday, we had a very interesting meeting with Richard Allan, the Facebook European boss for what is related to politics. I picked up some facts and statistics to give an overview of where we stand in the Facebook-galaxy.
New Media approach
Following MEPs is easy now that so many of them are on Facebook and Twitter; for some, social media hold great hope in terms of filling the famous EU “communications gap”. See this video.
Explaining Eurobonds to my Latvian grandmother
Amendments, oral questions, rapporteurs, draft reports… Eurocratic life is crowded with this kind of words that, once you work for a European institution, become part of your daily life. But, we have to admit that outside this “quartier européen”, hardly anybody knows or is interested in knowing what “second reading” is. So, how to write [...]
My new vocation
I left work to become a mum but little did I know that coming back to work not only would I start qualifying for the “working mum” description but also that of a juggler. Every space of time like air for a juggler has millimetres of oppportunities. But dare you miss that fraction of a [...]
Crossborder: Plugging The Brain Drain
How can the old continent convince its best brains to stay in Europe? How can it entice foreign researchers to work in its laboratories? See EuroparlTV video.
Online editorial models #03 – Network journalism
There was a time networked journalism was called « citizen journalist. » Then a smart guy asked if you would trust a citizen dentist or a citizen brain surgeon and the term was dead, until it was rebranded as… network journalism.
Professional archetypes
I still have to think about which professional archetypes defines me best (the team is welcome to let me know). And you? Read Seth Godin’s post and let us know in the comments ;-)
The steamy EuTube video: right or wrong?
Observers of the Commission’s occasionally excellent offerings on EUTube cannot have failed to notice that among the top twenty most viewed videos on EU Tube, several unashamedly use sex as their selling point. Is this the right way to go?
Switching Europe on
European Union policy on electrical goods. Here comes the video clip.
Just in time
Each year hundreds of people across Europe die in accidents at level crossings, which account for one third of all rail fatalities and 1-2% of all road deaths. On 22 June 2010, road and rail stakeholders launch the International Level Crossing Awareness Campaign (ILCAD), the first ever international campaign dedicated to reducing the number of [...]
Social Media Statistics – 2010
Some interesting stats figures on Social Media different platfoms might be viewed in slide show here.
Italian nuts are sensitive
If you still believe the European Parliament has no impact on your daily life, maybe you’d reconsider your position after reading this article by AP: Italy fears for Nutella with new EU food labels. Read also our Press release.
Beautiful goals
You may have noticed: there is an ongoing World Cup… Jean-Pierre Evrard is a talented photographer, former football player. He travels the world and shoots the goal he finds in remote places. His slide show is just inspiring and beautiful, even if you can’t stand football anymore. (via Rue89).
Oops, that hurts.
Our friend Ben Rooney has spotted the The Cold, Hard Numbers Of What’s Happening To Newspapers. If you’re in the print business, this could hurt.
Open letter to “pillar” Christian
Our web team is something over three years old, and the time has come when some of our number are starting to think about what comes next. All very healthy and right, but some people have carved out a real niche for themselves in the meantime and it’s sometimes hard to imagine anyone stepping into their shoes. Anyway, it’s good sign to miss a colleague, right?, and Sofia speaks for many in an open letter to a real pillar of the team, who’s off to pastures new..
Branding is the key
Branding, weither it’s online or in real life, has become one the key factors of your success, whatever your line of business is. There’s a blog of a Latvian branding expert I would recommend to you: Rue Archimede. Not yet Seth Godin but on his way.
Lunch with the nicest ex-drop out ever …
Thursday at EESC ‘s “literature lunch” young English author Helen Walsh was reading from her novel “Once Upon A Time in England“. We were transferred from a sunny Brussels rooftop terrace to a cold night in a tough Warrington housing estate. She started reading and it suddenly felt colder. The tale sent shivers down the spine. You knew something bad [...]
Interview: Against medical tourism…
Towards equal medical treatment. French MEP Bernadette Vergnaud talks about harmonising medical treatments to stop citizens from hospital shopping in other EU countries. Here comes EuroparlTV reportage.
Online editorial models #02 – Link journalism
Do you remember the first link you published on Internet? It may well have been by using Frontpage or Dreamweaver. Or a text editor in which you were coding in html – those were the days you were wild and crazy. It should come as no surprise that this very simple act – posting a [...]
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