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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 to him – no-one.
Then [...]

Posted in EU Politics, Euroblog | Tagged Barack Obama, Jerzy Buzek, Twitter, US-EU Relations | 19 Responses

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 is [...]

Posted in EU Politics, Euroblog, Technology | Tagged EU-twittersphere, TweetLevel, Twitter | 12 Responses

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 [...]

Posted in EU Politics, Euroblog, Technology | Tagged EU-twittersphere, TweetLevel, Twitter | 10 Responses

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 [...]

Posted in EU Politics, Euroblog, Technology | Tagged Herman Van Rompuy, Spanish Presidency of the EU, Twitter, Typo3 | 5 Responses

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 [...]

Posted in Euroblog, Technology, Travel | Tagged Bristol Airport, Crisis Communications, Easyjet, Eurostar, Paris CDG, Social Media, Twitter | Leave a response

First rule of social media (well, any comms) – don’t lie. Eurostar – learn the lessons!

By Jon on December 19, 2009

A friend contacted me via Skype – she has a ticket for a Brussels-London Eurostar at 1800 today and wanted to find out my experiences. I told her I was back home, having been categorically told via the announcements at Gare du Midi at 1215 today that there were no trains to London at any time today.
But why [...]

Posted in Euroblog, Travel | Tagged Eurostar, Online Communications, Twitter | 1 Response

Abject Eurostar communications and technological failure

By Jon on December 19, 2009

Last night at 2202 a newsletter arrived in my inbox entitled ‘Europe: the ideal Christmas gift’, urging me to offer friends and family a trip on Eurostar.
At the same time Eurostar knew a difficult situation was developing on its services – BBC reported on it at 0400 this morning. When temperatures are very cold either side of the [...]

Posted in Euroblog, Travel | Tagged Cold Weather, Crisis Communications, Eurostar, Rail Travel, Twitter | 3 Responses