That’s right - curation. Now officially Web2.0-buzzword-of-the-month (not quite sure which one).
And here was me thinking that curation was something knowledge workers have been doing ever since there was knowledge to work with.
So stand by for a totally gratuitous use of the c-word later on in this post. Maybe even two. But first, here [...]

Answer: when the blogger doesn’t publish comments or trackbacks. But why are so many of these Charade Blogs supposedly ‘blogs on European communications’? Are there too many freshly minted ’social media experts’ in Brussels?

I’ve found that Eurosceptic-oriented blogs are generally very open environments - I had a comment blocked once on Devil’s Kitchen, but otherwise [...]

I recently joined Tibo’s conversation on the Parliament’s Writing for (y)EU - see Not the 8 o’clock news -  but my latest comment grew so long I decided to put it here instead. And then, typically, it grew …
In Tibo’s original post and subsequent comments, he explored how far EP officials can go in “engaging [...]

The story of the Mr Bean “hack” of the Spanish Presidency website got me thinking.
Not the story itself, which is just an amusing diversion. But Joe Litobarski’s excellent analysis led me to compare the way the story was covered by the mainstream media and by bloggers such as himself and Julien Frisch, who first brought [...]

Every now and then I see a neat new ways for displaying complex information simply and my inner child comes out. It really delights me that there are software and design geniuses out there, working together to provide visualisation tools for mere plebs like me to use. If I ever get the time.
So, following on [...]

So Joe has a good summary of the euroblog meet-up (”Herding Cats“), with a more detailed followup on the way.
There are a lot of competing ideas, which is exactly what we need - the main point is that this discussion is finally underway, with ideas flowing across Europe via blogs, Google Wave, Twitter and email. [...]

So the debate about the Euroblogosphere, or the Eurosphere, or the European Public Sphere, or web2eu, or the European online public space, of whatever-we-call-it-next-week, has sparked again into life, like a Frankensteinian monster with dodgy spark plugs screwed into the base of its neck.
The latest incarnation is over on the blog of Joe Litobarski, who’s [...]

One of the topics I’ve been developing on this blog for quite some time came up at last week’s get-together organised by the Belgian IABC chapter: the need (or not) for social media guidelines for EU staff.
I actually think such guidelines are needed not just for EU staff, but for everyone serious about using social [...]

As we approach a new Commission, expect to see a lot of recommendations for them from all and sundry. Rather than add my voice to the cacophony by making up my own, I’ll content myself with picking over everyone else’s, using anything I find relevant to communications as a springboard for reflection.
First off the line: [...]

Caught up with Julien Frisch last week (his account here), and was struck by how refreshing it is to talk to people involved in EU affairs and social media but who are not actually in Brussels, and also to talk to them face to face.
It’s easy to underestimate the importance of face to face in [...]