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 and more [...]

Can Obama deliver in Copenhagen?

Obama announced surprisingly last Friday that he will attend the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in the crucial days at the end of the meeting instead of the beginning as originally planned.

But why is it so important when Obama will attend the conference? What difference does it make whether he comes this week and meet [...]

Post-match analysis: Personal Democracy Forum in Barcelona

Conferences are like London buses. You go for ages without one showing up, then they all come along at once. Suffice it say that, thanks to an improbable number of internet/politics conferences in a very short period, I feel I am becoming something of a connaisseur of the genre.

Yikes! Suddenly we are doing all this stuff

Seems only yesterday… It’s not long since we were in the happy position of being the ones pushing for all kinds of trendy, new-fangled ideas against a hidebound establishment.  This blog seemed like a distant mirage – it was just too far outside the comfort zone of the way European institutions do communication to be [...]

The Fifth Estate

Dipping a toe in academia today. Prof Dutton’s thesis is that contemporary society is seeing the emergence of a “Fifth Estate”, enabled by the internet and, to a lesser extent, other information and communications technology.

Downtown on the digital frontline (with Obama)

Today, I find myself in downtown Brussels in a hotel, surrounded by people without ties but all sporting the inevitable conference badges, where in a moment I am participating in a panel discussion entitled “What won it for Obama?”

The flood gates open

Call it the Obama Effect, call it the Tide of History, call it about time, but whatever it was it happened this week. A big week for the web team. We got the go ahead for a series of new enterprises we have been working on behind the scenes for a while now.