My EuropCom 2015 workshop on online communities is taking shape. According to the EuropCom2015 site it’ll be held after lunch on Day 1, and will cover: Convening and managing an online community is an extremely effective way of achieving communications goals, but will probably fail if viewed primarily as a communications project. We will explore the Dos… » read more
Archives for Community
I need three speakers for a EuropCom2015 workshop to share their thoughts on convening and managing communities in the context of public communications and policymaking. The following throwaway remark on Linkedin landed me with the task of setting up a workshop at EuropCom 2015: “I’d suggest combining “Setting-up and managing online communities” and “The power of events”, as… » read more
The Christian Democrat EPP, Socialists and Liberals think they have the eternal right to select old and pensioned-off politicians to be their Commissioners. The European Commission, was once a politician-free zone. It was then much more effective politically. One Commission president was a law professor, another was an engineer, a third was formerly a trades… » read more
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Meaning of “Obama”
November 4, 2009
In the run-up to the 2008 U.S. presidential election, a continental African friend emailed this to me: “WHAT IS THE MEANING OF OBAMA?”
All hail the [crook] democracy! *
October 7, 2009
Most politicians hailed the outcome of the second referendum on the same Lisbon Treaty. Not surprisingly, the loudest amongst them were the Brussels Eurocrats whose proliferation and revenue are further secured by the Treaty (Apostolov 2009b, Apostolov 2009a). Some politicians were even insolent enough to claim that the second referendum that the Irish folk… » read more
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USSR Reloaded?
October 1, 2009
(Third edition) One man with courage makes a majority. Andrew Jackson In a historic second referendum on a treaty changing the way the European Community functions (the Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community (Conference of the Representatives of the Governments of the… » read more
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Why I would not re-elect Mr. Barroso *
September 16, 2009
Sir, Regarding ‘Barroso warns opponents not to weaken Europe’: I would like to share with you my personal view on why José Manuel Barroso should not be re-elected as president of the Commission of the European Communities (alias the European Commission). I would not support Mr. Barroso for a second term because:… » read more
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Emerson Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. Edmund Burke The hypocrisy of the European Institutions has been the focus of public debate ever since the… » read more
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Allez voir le film ALIKER, by Antillean filmmaker Guy Deslauriers. Debut, Wednesday, 3 June. Official site: http://alikerlefilm.com