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Seminar on the impact of social media and journalism at the EU Council – 07/10/2011
The objective of this half day seminar was to exchange views between journalists and public communicators on how social media is impacting journalism, and in particular media coverage of EU news. It took place on 7 October in the press centre of the...
2nd Day of Multilingual Blogging / 2e Blog in verschillende talen
Haven’t written a blog for almost a year so the 2nd Day of Multilingual Blogging is a good opportunity. Last year I wrote about languages in the EU institutions, working languages, daily practice, etc. Below an exchange I had today on Twitter a...
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, insp...
Day of Multilingual Blogging / Blog in verschillende talen
Most of my blogs are written in English, the language I use most often professionally. I write this blog in my mother tongue Dutch because of the Day of Multilingual Blogging. In de Europese Commissie, waar ik werk, zijn talen niet weg te denken. Er...
A website for the EEAS!
Holidays are over now and we are all back at work in the EU institutions. But while we took our holidays one after another, we have also worked hard on the setting up of the EEAS and its website and lots of work is still ahead of us. Below some figur...
World cup in the EU’s offices. Acta est fabula!
Ooff…It’s all over! And again my country’s team didn’t manage to win. But frankly the Spanish team deserved it. Every time there is the World Cup or the European Championship, EU officials transform from devoted Europeans into...
Yes, w’ve got an answer!
Remember? Way back in January the internet editors and webmasters in the European Commission wrote an open letter to their new bosses. Now w’ve got an answer! Enjoy reading the reply by Commissioner Reding. I’ll come back with comments in...
Bureaucrats and the web: a strange marriage!
My first contribution to the Waltzing Matilda blog of the social media gang in the European Commission. Enjoy reading! Bureaucrats and the web: a strange marriage! “Waltzing Matilda” will look with wonder and surprise and a critical eye a...
Web 2.0 & EEAS keeps us busy….
What happened after we send an Open Letter to Barroso and the incoming new Commissioners? A number of us had a chat with a member of his “cabinet” (private office) who was genuinely interested in what we proposed. The Open letter and an a...
Please, use web 2.0 for Europe!
Today an open letter from the European Commission’s community of internet editors and webmasters was send to to President Barroso and incoming Commissioners. The title is “Harnessing the power of the Internet for better communication̶...
The EU machine is back up and running
The staff of the different institutions are back from Xmas holidays and life in the EU-bubble in Brussels is picking up again. The European parliament prepares for the hearings of the candidate Commissioners next week. In the European Commission we a...
A new year, a new start?
in 2009 a lot happened in the EU 2.0 sphere. I started to Twitter privately @dicknieuwenhuis and professionally @eu_relex. I didn’t use this blog that much. 3 Articles in Dutch in the run up to the EP elections. But 2010 is going to be an inter...
Ook de VRT (en de NOS) gelooft in fabeltjes. Maar het RF komt te hulp!
Het eerste item op het VRT-journaal vanavond 2 november om 19 u deed mij de haren recht overeind staan. Van Rompuy kandidaat voor het “Presidentschap van de EU”! Even dacht ik dat het 1 april was maar niet heus. Maar…. die post bes...
D66 beste bestrijder van Brusselse bureaucratie??
Daar gaan we weer! De “Brusselse bureaucratie” is weer de schuldige. Kaboutertjes ook bij D’66? Kunnen ze niks originelers bedenken?
Het CDA gelooft in kaboutertjes
Het CDA en haar lijsttrekker Wim van de Camp zijn ten strijde getrokken tegen de hordes uit Brussel! De campagne voor de verkiezingen van het Europees parlement werd op gang getrokken in de Telegraaf met de aankondiging dat er kom af gemaakt moest wo...
