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Tools Tuesday: The Archivist
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And we’re back! It’s the first review of the New Year, and we have the perfect tool to help you be better looking, better organised and an all-round better social media force in 2012! … It’s The Archivist. As the year that was 201...
Connecting Europe’s regions
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A guest blog from Tony Lockett of DG Regio on using online tools and social media to colloborate and communicate across the regions.
Social Media and Les Bonnes Frites!
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Anne's adventures while doing the social media profiling of her local fritkot.
2011: The year the Commission embraced social media
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Anne looks back on 2011's social media achievements in the Commission.
So should the EU go mobile?
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The internet is increasingly mobile in Europe. So should the EU go mobile? If it does, how can the institutions effectively connect with Europeans through their mobile devices? Figuring this out requires a couple of steps. Let’s begin by lo...
Tools Tuesday: dlvr.it
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For most people, social media is not what they do, but what they do now on top of all the stuff they did before. It’s a juggling act, and not one to be underestimated – you need to look after your pages, and get fresh and interesting content...
Social media, monitoring, and measuring
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As the in-house metrics ‘expert’, I’ve been asked to write about why measuring and monitoring social media is not only simple but essential. So the point of this post is plain: Find a tool to consistently measure and monitor social...
Tools Tuesday: Sprout Social
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Trying to get a message out on social media can feel a bit like trying to make an announcement at a crowded party. There’s music playing, a thousand conversations happening at once and it would something pretty dramatic for everyone to stop and...
Commission website and its online survey analysis
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Early this year, the team in DG Communication launched a survey to find out who was using the European Commission website and what they were looking for from the site. The European Commission site is designed to help individual citizens and other sta...
Tools Tuesday: Twitter walls
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This week we're investigating the different types of Twitter wall tools – and the pros and cons of letting the Twitter conversation happen live on the big screen.
Auditors’ website gets a makeover: The story of a site redesign
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A blog from the head of the Europa Webteam, Deirdre Hodson, on the re-design of the Internal Audit Service website. She takes you right from conception to the final product – essential reading for anyone planning their own revamp… The cha...
Got Kred?
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There's a new kid on the digital influence block, and they're focusing on your community kred.
Tools Tuesday: Storify
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It's Tools Tuesday, and this week we're reviewing Storify and the art of online storytelling.
Poverty and social media: the right weapon for the fight?
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Can social media make a real difference in tackling poverty, or is it just 'clictivism'? Does it widen the digital divide?
From 0 to 20.000 in a year! And then what?
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Anne reflects on the developments during the first year of the Commission's Twitter account.
Short, shorter, shortest: webservices to make tiny URL’s
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Fleur and Anne talk about using URL shorteners.
Events and social media
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Anne discusses how to use social media successfully for amplifying discussions at events.
Monday: Firework. Tuesday: Illuminations. Wednesday: Revolution.
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Even if you don’t really want to, at the beginning of a new year you are expected to look back on what happened and to look forward to what you expect to happen. We had a tough and challenging 2010. Everybody in the organisation has accepted th...
EUTUBE – what can be done better?
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Why don’t we start our own channel on YouTube? That question was asked just before the summer 2006 in a weekly meeting of the people working with communication tools: the audiovisual people, the internet service, those dealing with print an...
Sitting in on an EP Facebook chat
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Anne gives her recap of a Facebook chat "a la European Parliament".
