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Hopeless new web comms plan from Reding

By Jon on June 30, 2010

Via Twitter I came across this post in French by Michael Malherbe about a letter sent from Commissioner responsible for Communications, Viviane Reding, to Commission President Barroso. Euractiv managed to get hold of a copy of the letter that contains 14 points about how communications are to be improved. The irony is that it looks [...]

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Politicians that don’t get Twitter – MacShane, Byrne, Swoboda

By Jon on June 13, 2010

There are two ways to use Twitter as a politician. The first (the right way) is to build a discussion, a conversation with people, to reply to normal Twitter users as well as other politicians and journalists. Politicians that understand this include @jeaninehennis @edballsmp and @corybooker. The second way (the wrong way) is to just broadcast, broadcast, [...]

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Social norms and critical mass – the essential ingredients of a social network

By Jon on March 24, 2010

A question was posed at today’s Campaign Clinic at the eCampaigning Forum about niche social networks that I felt did not receive an adequate answer at the time. Now with a few hours to reflect on it, I’ve distilled my thoughts. There are 2 essentials to a good social network online – social norms, and a critical [...]

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The EU can’t have its cake and eat it when it comes to relations with the USA

By Jon on February 5, 2010

How are you supposed to measure the state of US-EU relations? No easy task seen from Brussels. Earlier this week Barack Obama prompted a bout of soul-searching by stating that he would not attend a EU-US summit pencilled in for May this year. At least it resolves who will first shake his hand or sit next [...]

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TweetLevel – intuitively about right. No more, no less.

By Jon on January 28, 2010

I’ve managed to cause quite a fuss after my previous post about the main players in the EU-Twittersphere. So much so that some more reflection is needed, something that, due to the lack of nuance of 140 characters, I’ve been thus far unable to provide to (among others) @mathewlowry and @FabienCazenave. I think the essence here [...]

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Who are the main players in the EU-twittersphere?

By Jon on January 27, 2010

Edelman have cooked up a little tool called TweetLevel that gives a number that judges an individual’s influence on Twitter. 0 is the minimum score and 100 the maximum. Left Foot Forward has had a go at working out which Labour people have most influence on Twitter in the UK, so I thought I would [...]

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Spanish Presidency web failure (and Van Rompuy isn’t much better)

By Jon on January 2, 2010

Inspired by this post on the European Citizen blog I decided to take a look at the website of the 2010 Spanish Presidency of the EU. OK, they have put some money into it, but it’s miles behind the website the Swedes produced. Worst of all the section entitled ‘What is going to happen’ is [...]

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I can’t be sure EZY6226 will leave tonight, but I know I’ll know (Eurostar – learn!)

By Jon on December 21, 2009

In some strange irony in these times of climate change I’ve had to abandon the green option (Eurostar) and go for the polluting option (an Easyjet flight – CDG-Bristol) to get myself to South Wales. There have been all kinds of delays to flights around Europe over the last few weeks so this route is not guaranteed [...]

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