It’s a simple story about now and then.  Then it was early 2009 and I was doing my traineeship at the very same unit where I now, almost three years later, started to work in full position.  During this period of time Web Comm has enlarged its grip of using online mediums and I feel that my luggage will be filled with some new expertise.

I can recall when the idea of promoting EP via social media was a new hot topic in the unit. Those days Obama had its successful web campaign and Web Comm was eager to follow. 

Team of stagiaires, we were responsible for series of election stories promoting EPs elections of 2009 and one of the stories was even dedicated to social media networking and to Obama's campaign.

I think I’m not totally wrong when saying that the idea of creating EPs own Facebook account was then also quietly boiling. People were considering how to serve this idea on higher level to get permission.

Obviously EP has now its Facebook account and not only – there’s active Twitter in all languages, accounts in Flickr, Youtube, etc. And this blog was there already three years ago – being like an example of how up to date is Web Comm in a governmental system like EP.

Around 0,3 million likes in Facebook, frequent daily updates in Twitter, Flickr account with notable archive: I see progress. And I can hear people saying that we have to be in line with whatever modern social networks there will start flourish.  (Another interesting question: is social media developed into a more stable phase or is it still going to grow and change in rapid way. But this is to be discussed for someone else.)

Today there's social media teams in the unit and more specialized people are dealing with special (web)projects. As the unit has gathered some expertise during the last three years I feel that I will get a sip from it. I modestly admit that I like it.