Raffaella
Time for selFB-confidence
The FB page of the European Parliament rocks, and we shouldn’t be afraid to say it. As Florent wrote on his post, we’ve the broadest EU community and the biggest Parliament’s presence on Facebook in the world. I’m honoured to work at this project, and I want to invest myself to make it bigger, nicer, [...]
Do you check Facebook during your “intimate moments”?
Everyone’s talking about social media (including us). We are generally keen of course, but, as we all know, there are dangers too. So it was high time for Raffaella to look at the latest research into social media obsession. Her research took her in surprising directions.
A coffee with Klaus
An excellent idea But it would have been even better if I was not eating a biscuit when he stretched out his hand and smiled: “Klaus Welle”. Me, mouth full: “Baffabella Be Mabte”. For those who don’t know Klaus: he is the Secretary General of the European Parliament. Basically the Boss of the bosses of all [...]
A Swift look at Twitter
The so-called SWIFT agreement was not only a kind of miracle that made it possible to watch EPLive with a lot of emotion, passion and tension. It was also, for me, the occasion to better understand Twitter, on which I thought as Kurt (post of 9 Feb) before. There are hundreds and hundreds of tweets on this [...]
Obama is hiring a Twitterer…
…”But don’t mention #SWIFT in the application”. This Tweet by Kattabel made my day: Two big joys. Fist one: Obama is looking for a Social Networks Manager. Everybody knows that the American President used the social media tools trough all his campaign and continues to feed them actively, with over 7,5 Million fans on Facebook [...]
Dante call Brussels
I don’t know if there are many Italians reading this blog. But I would still like to point out to you two blogs dealing with EU affairs in Dante’s language. Straneuropa is written by the Brussels correspondent of ”La Stampa”, a widely-read newspaper. It depicts EU politics with a sense of sharp humour and constructive, pro-European criticism. Sometimes he relates funny, surprising anecdotes from [...]
“People on the web only look for naked women”
“Why don’t you help us a little bit with the press, instead of writing those nice stories that, yes…are ok but…nobody reads?” “Ah!!I thought you were only translating few articles…” “Alé, that in the end you only copy/paste the news from the press!” “We show the WebTV to the visitors…But, no, not Facebook….I didn’t know [...]
Confessions of a dangerous ungreen mind
It all started with this. There, I discovered that despite my good intentions and my claims about not having a car, eating BIO and little meat etc, I live as if I had 3,4 planets at my disposal. Since then, my addiction to internet-based confessions, aid groups and group therapies for ungreen guilty minds hasn’t stop growing, making [...]
Yes, they look like real people.
I’ve got great news guys. Finally we managed to know 1) that they exist and 2) that they look like us. Well, not exactly like us… They look: all happy, all smily, all in a kind of post-teenage phase, you could think that they look a bit stupid, but then you realise immediately that it’s [...]
Surfing (other) European parliaments
“We should insist on the use of new technologies during elections in order to boost turnout. It is also time to open a debate on European political parties”: with his over 1100 Facebook friends and his 69 years, the president of the European Parliament has been already defined ‘the Facebook president’. His inagural speech inspired [...]
…And how can we go greener
Last week I wrote about where does the EP stand in green standards. This week, some tips on what can WE do to make the Parliament greener. And also, some fresh news about what is going to happen soon…thanks to EMAS that revealed it exclusively to us! In our corridors… I want to believe that [...]
How green do we go?
Call it post-election annihilation. Or maybe we were too concentrated to catch the new MEPs in the corridors to be able to notice anything else. The fact is, the ‘Green week’ of the European Parliament passed relatively unnoticed, if it was not for a Green official that made me test the ecopassenger tool, a very [...]
Europe XXL
Time for a little “Culture section”! Frankly, it cannot be always about Obama, the Communication campaign or the desesperate lack of a major European p0rn star – as deeply expressed by one of our editors during a meeting. Raffaella brings you her vision of what Europe should be.
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