The EU’s communication strategy has been under the spotlight since the French and Dutch “No”s to the EU’s Constitutional Treaty. The new ‘Reform Treaty‘ in the offing and the European Parliament elections scheduled for Spring 2009 will be major political debates.

More than one social media observer has taken their time to react to the latest Edelman Trust Barometer’s statistic that “people like me” has taken a tumble. What does it mean for EU communications?
For those confused by the first sentence, let me explain that for many people involved in the early days of social media, [...]

During the course of this year, we at Blogactiv have been doing our best to make progress in our use of video on the platform. At the start of the year, we could identify a camera, and by the end of it we could competetly use one.
We have plans for much more camera work in [...]

The New York Times writes about the two new (or upgraded) posts that were filled in for the European Union yesterday: Leaders of the 27 countries of the European Union on Thursday night chose Herman Van Rompuy, the Belgian prime minister, as the E…

In the run-up to the 2008 U.S. presidential election, a continental African friend emailed this to me: “WHAT IS THE MEANING OF OBAMA?”

I am one of those gals who will, every so often, attempt to find all the good news in a day’s media, just for the sake of reminding themselves that life can be wonderful, that there are incredibly good people in the world, and that it isn’t harmful to feel good about the earth, humanity, [...]

The Chinese authorities permitted the domestic and foreign media to go to Urumqi, immediately after the recent riots, whereas journalists were banned from Tibet after the riots in Lhasa in March 2009. There are apparently differing views within the leadership.
The unity of China is an ongoing preoccupation of its leadership. There is a fear that [...]

President Obama in speech after speech during his recent overseas visits has been hammering on the dual themes of arresting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and also advocating, as an eventual but nonetheless desirable objective, the reduction, deactivation - and eventually total elimination – of nuclear arsenals around the planet.
Nuclear weapons were employed [...]

Zhe Song, China’s main man in the EU, is every bit the modern Chinese diplomat: he knows the official line inside out and offers polite frustration in the face of what he sees as the West’s frequent misunderstanding of China. But he’s pragmatic and outward-looking; he talks of progress and consensus-building.
Indeed, as evidenced by this [...]

Quite a few people look at me in quite a puzzled way when I mention how the techniques and approaches of online community management ‘may have something to offer’ the EU in terms of communications, but that this may require ‘a change in mentality’.
When they look like that, I say “You know, something along the [...]

DG INFSO turns to Facebook in its latest ‘roaming-related’ communications drive.
Back in 2005, I was on holiday on the north coast of Bretagne, listening to the BBC in my car while I waited for my wife to come back from the shops. And who showed up in my radio? Why, Martin Selmayr.
Who? Martin was (is?) [...]

I came across this absolutely cool new campaign by Intel branding the company as “sponsors of the future”. Designed by the Ad agency Venbables Bell & Partners it’s making rockstars out of scientists (”Your rockstars aren’t like our rockstars”). Check the video on you tube, it is so much fun - showing the way in [...]

Why not have all your European engineering news feeds in one place?  Go to the Orgalime page for news, blogs, photos, podcasts and member feeds - even catch up with the European elections…………..

Reflections on the cinematographic work of George Drivas
By Alexandros Yannis, Associate Professor at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Boston, USA.
Globalisation, our planet being increasingly interactive and borderless, is both a liberating and a tyrannical experience. It is a spectacular story of the human ability to gain freedom and to loose it at the [...]

I have just stumbled on article of the French newspaper Le Figaro titled “Le marketing viral des souverainistes sur la Toile“. The journalist, Samuel Laurent, analyzes the different means by which Libertas spread efficiently its message through the strategic use of social media.
In particular, they use videos that match a great success thanks to their viral nature. I [...]

A recent special report by Ethical Corp. discusses the lack of targeting by socially responsible investment funds of high net-worth individuals. The report looks at the rising demand for “green” investment options by the super-wealthy of the world. Whilst markets are tumbling around the world, the total amount of wealth controlled by this group is [...] 

Are you a lobbyist based in or around the Brussels area? If you are, the details of the EurActiv.com survey, below, may be of interest to you. We would be pleased to hear your opinions. Please feel free to post your thoughts below…
Survey: Lobbyists reluctant to sign up to register
Large numbers of businesses, consultancies and [...] 

The European Union spent €2.4bn last year on “biased information campaigns” to “promote itself and its central aim of ‘ever closer union’,” alleges a new study by Open Europe, a UK-based think tank. But the report’s findings were denied by the European Commission, which said it “makes no apologies” for supporting schemes such as the [...] 

The annual internet voting for one of the biggest international blog awards, the 2008 Weblog Award is on. There are many categories, and I have found some nice hidden gems, like the practical Science Text in the hidden gem category. From the Central European Blogactiv blogroll there is one blog which is a finalists, so [...] 

I had announced this in a previous blog entry (see: “If you can google it, it’s real”). However, it took quite a bit longer than anticipated. Sorry for that: But now it is finally online: The video stream of Christopher Perrien’s Web 2.0 key-note at the ERRIN Open Days seminar of 9 October 2008 (”Harnessing […]

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I had announced this in a previous blog entry (see: “If you can google it, it’s real”). However, it took quite a bit longer than anticipated. Sorry for that: But now it is finally online: The video stream of Christopher Perrien’s Web 2.0 key-note at the ERRIN Open Days seminar of 9 October 2008. Christopher […]

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