BloggingPortal.eu is setting up the My Europe Week Blog Carnival, and want you to take part, whether you’re a blogger or not. “We want you to write about your Europe. What you want from Europe. How you want Europe to develop … your declaration on what you want from Europe … We want both bloggers [...]

Around a year ago I was browsing Jeremiah Omyang’s idea that one day the relationship between PR companies, consumers and brands would flip over, with PR Agencies representing communities, rather than brands. He takes this idea a long way into territory which he himself says seems far-fetched, with consumer groups banding together to pay PR [...]

I’m on record for thinking that European Citizens Initiatives (ECIs) could backfire, or, as Simon Blackley put it recently: “the words ‘shoot’ and ‘foot’ spring to mind” My reasoning a couple of months ago was that people would be set up to be disappointed by organisers of badly conceived ECIs, who would blame the EU [...]