Twitter is THE buzz word and the online place to be at the moment within the EU-geeks, journalists, civil servants and last but not least EU public affairs professionals. Twitter is undoubtedly a great tool for promotion and exchange between people who may probably never have spoken to each other or met in real life [...]

Like every end of year, Google has just published its Zeitgeist 2009. For those of you who wouldn’t have heard of Zeitgeist, it is a German expression meaning “the spirit of the times” (cf. Wikipedia). Basically, Google Zeitgeist was meant to summarize a year of searches by American internet users as a way to picture [...]

In a few years, we’ll not only remember 2009 as the year of the Lisbon Treaty but also as the year 0 in terms of European communication. Yes, it was a remarkable year with lots of premieres and innovative ways of communicating, especially coming from the European Parliament in order to bring citizens to vote. [...]

Speaking of how big social media are becoming is much easier to imagine if we consider it in real time. Thanks to Gary Hayes, there is now a very cool and interactive tool counting the average activity of major social media including Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Definitely worth having a look!
In his blog, Gary explains [...]

Who said European politics was incompatible with Social Media? If we take the example of Twitter: among the 736 MEPs, how many of them are on Twitter? This is a question many EU-bloggers and Twitter users have been asking for weeks. Here it is, the complete (*) list with the 156158 “tweeting” europoliticians classified by [...]