The EU’s communication strategy has been under the spotlight since the French and Dutch “No”s to the EU’s Constitutional Treaty. The new ‘Reform Treaty‘ in the offing and the European Parliament elections scheduled for Spring 2009 will be major political debates.

Meine Erwartungen an die eSkills Week der DG Enterprise und Industry waren wahrscheinlich viel zu hoch.
Dies wird der Grund sein, warum ich von dieser Veranstaltung leider mehr als enttäuscht war. Dies bezieht sich sowohl auf die Sichtbarkeit in EU-Kreisen als auch auf die Anzahl der Veranstaltungen. Es ist selbstverständlich möglich, dass außerhalb Brüssels in dieser [...]

How Can You Improve Your Blogging?
When it comes to the web, being found by the search engines and read by visitors, the title of a blog post is very important. On the one hand, a title needs to pull in the visitors to make them want to read. This is a very important skill to [...]

On Friday last week I had the pleasure of attending a Lisbon Council event on the subject of innovation. I can’t lie, it was a fascinating event with some excellent speakers and interventions.
However, I don’t want to dwell on the content. Instead, I’d like to recall a conversation I had in the coffee break.
One of [...]

A while back I and a number of others were blogging about how a very light, bottom-up usage of Web2-style tools and techniques (bloggingportal, delicious, tagging, google alerts, etc.) could help build links between national and EU online discussions and develop the slowly emerging European public space.
The importance of this was brought home to me [...]

64% der unter 24jährigen Internetnutzer in der EU waren bereits im Jahre 2008 auf Social Networking Sites aktiv, wie die Studie “The impact of Social Computing on the EU Information Society and Economy” belegt.
Mittlerweile dürfte diese Zahl noch deutlich gestiegen sein, und die Aktivitäten in Social Networks gehen weit über die Themenfelder ‘Unterhaltung’ und private [...]

Keen eyed Blogactiv readers and users will have noticed that yesterday our homepage didn’t move. What happened? Did we have no new content? Did we not want to publish anything?
The truth is that for around 24 hours Blogactiv was under attack from what were either very sophisticated spammers of professional hackers, with IPs based in [...]

I just found this post which contains a video and slide presentation from Google’s Matt Cutts where he explains how to SEO your blog.
It is worth pointing out that Blogactiv uses WordpressMU, which is slightly different to Wordpress, but only slightly. Thus, his suggestions about the basics of keywords and links are appropriate to anyone [...]

Wie in jüngster Vergangenheit von der Europäischen Kommission deutlich gemacht, herrschen nach wie vor negative Eindrücke und Bedenken vor, wenn es um die Theman ‘Social Networks’ und ‘Online Communities’ geht.
Die EU-Kommissarin Viviane Reding hat letzte Woche speziell Facebook an den Pranger gestellt. Natürlich sind die Sorgen was den Schutz der Privatsphäre angeht berechtigt, sowohl allgemein [...]

More than one social media observer has taken their time to react to the latest Edelman Trust Barometer’s statistic that “people like me” has taken a tumble. What does it mean for EU communications?
For those confused by the first sentence, let me explain that for many people involved in the early days of social media, [...]

The European Journalism Center (EJC) would like to invite enthusiastic journalists, bloggers, students and experts to join the third round of acclaimed blogging competition, TH!NK ABOUT IT.
TH!NK3: Developing World will bring together some 100 bloggers, journalists, issue experts and students from the 27 EU member states, as well as neighbourhood countries [...]

This article about social networks was published on 10th February 2010.
The European institutions launched a campaign yesterday (9 February) to raise awareness of the threats posed by social networking websites such as Facebook for minors under 18. Meanwhile, a new report highlights new risks associated with mobile social networking.
The majority of Europe’s youngsters who [...]

Who said the EU blogosphere was tiny?
Today, this post by Rado from EurActiv Slovakia has the honour of being the 5,000th post to be published on our homepage!
Post number one was made by Stanley Crossick on 11th October 2007. It has been quite a journey since then, both for Stanley and Blogactiv.
For obvious reasons, I [...]

Crédit Photo : khalampre
Toujours à l’oeuvre pour ce qui est de construire son indépendance depuis l’implosion de l’Union des Républiques Socialistes Soviétiques, la Géorgie forge encore actuellement sa propre démocratisation.
La vitalité et la richesse de la vie médiatique de ce pays du Caucase représentent à ce titre un excellent baromètre de ces transitions démocratiques : [...]

As you may have seen elsewhere on the site today, Stanley Crossick has reached the incredible milestone of 400 posts! To celebrate, I interviewed him about his blogging experiences.

While Stanley Crossick describes himself as a European of British origins, it is difficult to think of a better metaphor than an English cricketing one to celebrate his fourth century of blog posts in under three years!
He educates us on China, entertains us with insights into the Middle East, elucidated many of the more arcane [...]