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Of grumpy cats, the next innovation and the end of (my) blogs
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Last Friday I gave a presentation to my bosses about this year’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, TX, which I attended in March with a colleague. Highlighting for [...]...
Cake pops and other awesome girlie biscuits
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This is a super easy recipe which will turn an afternoon with the girls into a creative cooking workshop. And the best part of it is that it’s all edible! [...]...
First impressions from SXSW interactive 2013
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I have a short break in my schedule, so I thought it would be interesting to provide you with some insights into this year’s first day of the interactive festival [...]...
What happens to celebrity Twitter accounts when they die? The Hugo Chavez case
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Yes, I know. I should be focussing on much more challenging questions such as eradicating world hunger or education for all, but heck, it’s 1am, it’s the end of my [...]...
Playing with our senses: unveiling neuromarketing techniques
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I attended an IABC Belgium event in Brussels on 26 February during which Melissa Rancourt, Head of Faculty at Boston University in Brussels, talked about neuromarketing. I was very curious to [...]...
Anatomy of a modern travel diary
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This blog could have just as well been titled “Is blogging the end of paper travel diaries?”, but I thought it was more interesting to take an anthropological look at [...]...
My secret recipe for homemade, healthy and organic Nutella
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I bet you were deeply frustrated when you read in my blog description that I would be writing about such varied topics as digital diplomacy and Nutella, and you realised [...]...
Lucky (20)13
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To all my family, friends, colleagues and all those who inspire me in Brussels, Paris, Geneva, Vienna, London, Florence, Toulouse, New York, Lausanne, Los Angeles, Seoul, Beijing, Hanoi, Lille, Barcelona, [...]...
How digital is (or not) affecting the way we think
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Most of the books I read or came across in the autumn last year revolved around the concept of thinking, or thinking about thinking which is also known as metathinking. [...]...
Go where your audience is: what EU communicators can learn from local citizen engagement initiatives at EuropCom
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I had the pleasure of moderating a workshop on « E-ambassadors: Engaging citizens in a digital world » at EuropCom this week, the largest European conference bringing together local, national and EU public [...]...
Des livres comme des compagnons de vie
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relectures-vacances Des livres dont la lecture raconte en filigrane notre propre histoire Pour moi, la liste de ces livres est assez limitée, même si j’espère qu’elle s’agrandira avec le temps. [...]...
Fin du mythe : la petite souris friande de dents de lait
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Avec un enfant de 7 ans en 1ère année de primaire, il faut s’attendre à ce que certains mythes, comme celui du père Noël ou de la petite souris, soient [...]...
Miss France on Twitter for a week: getting to the root of stereotypes
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Last week I had the pleasure of participating in a new Twitter meme, the citizen curated location account, whereby citizens embody and represent their country or city during one week [...]...
Beyond social media: the digital evolution of EU institutions
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This is an excerpt from an article I recently published on the EUROPP blog of the London School of Economics (LSE). « Do you ‘like’ the European Parliament on Facebook? More [...]...
Dis maman, le pere Noel, il est arabe ?
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Cette semaine, mon fils et moi avons eu une conversation tellement surréaliste que je n’ai pas résisté à la tentation de la partager avec vous. Après le dîner, un soir [...]...
A la foire du livre de Bruxelles, mes enfants sont rois
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Après mon expérience d’hier à la foire du livre de Bruxelles, je me demande si une foire du livre est un bon endroit pour des enfants sachant à peine ou [...]...
What does social media really mean for EU institutions? The truth is in the job description
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I have not been in the job for long enough to pretend I’m 100% sure, but it seems to me that the Social Media Officer job vacancy recently posted by [...]...
Social media use in the EU institutions – how to go mainstream?
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Les betises sont nos meilleurs souvenirs d`enfance
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Vos enfants font des bêtises ? Tant mieux pour eux et pour vous ! Pas de relents doltosiens dans ce court plaidoyer pour la saine bêtise d’enfant, seulement un constat [...]...
Tour d`horizon des campagnes de Sarkozy et Hollande sur les reseaux sociaux
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Ce weekend, j’ai enfin pris le temps de regarder plus en détail la présence sur les réseaux sociaux des deux candidats à la présidentielle les plus probables au deuxième tour, [...]...
