Going local
No this isn’t about EU communication policy. It’s about my street in Charlton, South-East London, which has decided to have a street party for the Jubilee. We got a note through the door a few weeks...
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Erasmus at 25
[View the story "Erasmus at 25" on Storify] Erasmus at 25 Celebrating 25 years of European student mobility Storified by Antonia Mochan · Fri, May 18 2012 09:42:56 Almost exactly 20 eyars ago, I got on...
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Ageing, the media and social networks
I’m currently writing a paper on attitudes to ageing in the media (and if you have any thoughts or interesting ideas on this, please let me know). While googling around to see what is already out...
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#LondonThink
Due to the tender ministrations of British Gas as they install my new boiler, I’m missing the #ThinkLondon event about thinktanks and their use of social media. A few interesting tools have come up...
View ArticleUnravelling the Ravelympics
I’ve been sleeping quite badly recently, waking up around 4 in the morning and having difficulty getting back to sleep, so I often pick up the iPhone and have a little rummage around in Twitter and...
View ArticleA good day
My friends will know that I’ve been having a bit of a hard time recently and am feeling quite unsettled about my life. Whether it’s chicken or egg, I don’t know, but this feeling of unease has also...
View ArticleBack to reality
Wasn’t it wonderful? This great British summer of sport and culture and more? I played my own very small part in it, as a volunteer during the Olympics. I didn’t get to stand with a big pink foam hand...
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European Multilingual Blogging Day 2012
I promised to publish the list for European Multilingual Blogging Day once we had thirty sign ups, which we now have. So here we go! European Union 2.0 by @tonybxl EN-FR Juan Luis Postcardwala by...
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#babel12
And here, just a teensy bit late, is my guest post for Multilingual Blogging Day from my translator colleague John: Last year I wrote about my love affair with languages for Multilingual Blogging Day;...
View ArticleEuropean Multilingual Blogging Day 2012 – the final product
Thanks to everyone who took part in yesterday’s blogging day. Here’s a link to the final Storify showing all the blogs I could find. There was fantastic variety, both in languages and topics, and it...
View ArticleThe UK and political union
The European Parliament Information Office recently hosted an event in Europe House looking back over 40 years of UK membership of the EU, and looking forward. It seems to have been a good discussion,...
View ArticleHow do I find out about the EU?
A point that I’ve heard since I started working at the Representation, and one that came up again today in the wake of #thespeech is along these lines: I don’t know much about the EU and I don’t know...
View ArticleUser experience: why and how it matters
I recently tweeted A user experience case study. Have been developing some thoughts on this for my circs. Will blog on it soon. feedproxy.google.com/~r/currybet/~3… — Antonia Mochan (@euonymblog) 9...
View ArticleWhat is social media for?
I’ve recently been at a few events on digital issues, and I’m off to Helsinki early tomorrow morning to do a workshop with colleagues there on digital communication. So I guess these issues have been...
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Getting to grips with visual communication
I took part in a fantastic training course on Friday, which I think could change the way I communicate in terms of the many presentations and workshops I am asked to do. I’ve always had a visual...
View ArticleDigital survey for teachers
We are being encouraged to deliver more of our educational products, such as the very popular Passport to the European Union, in digital form. I’d like to make sure that we are doing so in a way that...
View ArticlePolicy priorities for social media
Anyone who follows me on Twitter will have been bombarded yesterday with tweets with the hashtag #WeFEvents I was at an event organised by the Westminster eForum, on policy priorities for social media....
View ArticleA quick practical guide to Twitter
Most of the presentations and training sessions I do on social media tend to focus on the ‘why’ rather than the ‘how’, as I think that you need to get that right first. As I heard at the Westminster...
View ArticleTeaching a lesson on social networking
I’m on holiday in Borneo at the moment, where my brother is Co-ordinator for the international secondary section of a school. I’ve had a wonderful time, Malaysia is an amazing place and there are lots...
View ArticleTwitter – solving problems in real time
I’ve blogged in the past on Twitter as customer service, rather than communication/PR, usually when it’s bad practice. So I thought I should highlight where it works well, especially as this story...
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