Category Archives: Digital/social media

Moving

Not from London, or even moving house. Just moving the blog to my own domain http://www.euonym.eu Please come and visit me there. And if you have any ideas on how to transfer this blog over (the import/export tool doesn’t seem … Continue reading

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Westminster Media Forum on press regulation

I went to a very interesting event today, and as there was quite a bit of tweeting going in, I had a go at Storifying it. I can’t publish the story here directly, but do follow the link, if you’re … Continue reading

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The Social Network/Travelling Light

This weekend I saw a play about film and a film about social networks, which seemed to fit together nicely. Travelling Light is a new play by Nicholas Wright, directed by Nicholas Hytner. As this is the team behind His … Continue reading

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Social media for humanitarian change

I’m at an event today organised by the World Food Programme on Social media for humanitarian change. Some interesting speakers from the worlds of humanitarian assistance and social media. Hoping to hear about how people are using social media to … Continue reading

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Blogguer dans une autre langue

Notre jour du blogging multilingue est là, et comme je suis encore une fois en voyage, j’ai invité mon collègue traducteur John d’écrire quelque-chose cette année. Voilà sa contribution, et vous trouverez aussi des autres contributions dans les commentaires des … Continue reading

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I do love a good google Map…

…and this is definitely a good google Map. A map of the world’s newspapers, with filters by language and a search facility. Not only very cool for those of us that love infographics (I plead guilty to that) but also … Continue reading

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My take on social media in the Commission

I was asked to write an article for our intranet about the use of social media in London. Thought I would reprint it here, as I would be grateful for comments. There’s no doubt that social media is the latest … Continue reading

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European Commission early adopters on Twitter

Someone – who shall remain nameless – claimed last week to be among the first in the European Commission to use Twitter. That got me thinking about those of us who were there early on (pre-2010) and who and what … Continue reading

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Turning virtual friendships into real ones

I was in Brussels for the last two days, and very nice it was too. On Wednesday I was speaking at an event on the use of social media in a European context, called Butterfly Europe. A video of the … Continue reading

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Onward and upward in 2011

First off, a Happy New Year to all my readers (both of you…) I was looking back through the blog today looking for a specific post, and it’s obvious that I write much less than I did when I first … Continue reading

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