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As I said at the presentation, if you don’t want to dive in then simply dip your toes into the water by commenting on the blogs you follow. You may find, eventually, that the comment text box just ain’t big enough, so you’ll start your own blog.

I was probably among those in the group that were more interested in the importance that blogging could have for a common (EU)ropean public space than in the actual technicalities of blogging. So your talk provided me with what I had expected. Although I have after your talk become an interested follower of some of the blogs I found though bloggingportal, I have not started anything of the kind myself.

Maybe I am a proof myself of the difficulties in motivating people in this field to blog, but that wasn´t the expectation I had put on your talk anyways.

Anyways, If I would start, I would now know where to begin!

best and thanks a lot
miguel

See article 12 which states that the priority area “Environmental Governance and Information” shall in particular be to “facilitate knowledge sharing on successful environmental solutions and practice, including by developing cooperation platforms between stakeholders”.

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/about/documents/COMM_PDF_COM_2011_0874_F_EN.pdf?reference=IP/11/1526&format=PDF&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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I was referring here to Communities of Practice and Communities of Interest, convened by the EC to improve the development of policies, the implementation of EU programmes and more general sharing of ideas, best practices and networking. Such Communities are ideally integrated (i.e., online and offline), and while convened by the EC, should be owned by their members.

My first experience with these was in 2002, when I built one for the annual event of the EC’s largest research programme (see Building Communities of Practice with Event-in-a-Box). At the time, of course, I didn’t know what a Community of Practice was, nor that what we had built was later to be called ‘Web2′.

Essentially it allowed the participants to co-define the event’s content with the EC (via Calls for Proposals, votes, comments, etc), and to network more effectively to conceive research project proposals and converse on research policy.

The DG in question (INFSO) has repeated the experience for each and every one of its major events since – in fact, they offered their participants ‘INFSO accounts’ before Google did. Since then, many other DGs and EC programmes have developed online CoPs – see, for example, Capacity4Dev and ProInvest (both by DG DEVCO), and RegioNetwork (DG REGIO). There have been many other attempts, all to my knowledge failures.