Mathew Lowry

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Brand exchange & the new citizen conversation

October 12, 2015

  Do people really want to have a conversation with brands, or their government? [Note: At last, a chance to bury the lede in a blog post. I started this post during my 2012-13 blogging hiatus, never finished it and then forgot clean about it. For reasons that will become clear, I’ve just rediscovered it… » read more

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Wow. Has it come to this?

December 8, 2014

Is primetime TV advertising the right way to connect citizens to the EU? Last week I saw and commented on an interesting blog post by Iveta Kazoka exploring one of the ‘broken channels’ which are supposed to link interested citizens to EU decision-making: “The report uncovered an uncomfortable truth: few civic society organisations are capable… » read more

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Being Useful beats Being Tuneful

April 13, 2011

This is the sort of post which could get me into trouble for a number of reasons. Particularly as I’m going to comment on the celebrations to be enjoyed next month at the Festival of Europe, where one can do everything from “seeing the political groups at work inside the European Parliament” to “experiencing a… » read more

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Mathew Lowry

BlogActiv launch director, I blogged here for exactly 10 years, then shuttered it & turned comments off, since BA doesn't even manage to handle spam properly anymore.

As BlogActiv's Launch Director, I shepherded the blog platform you're looking at now through its launch phase (August 2007-February 2008). When I left in March 2008, I was asked to keep an eye on Blogactiv from its Board, and so launched this blog to experiment and explore the European online public sphere, and the role that Blogactiv could play in it.

While I left the Blogactiv board in March 2010, the subject continues to fascinate, so I kept blogging. Summaries of the early years can be found in the Annual Reviews of 2010, 2011 and 2012, when I temporarily closed this blog to ponder where I wanted to take it.

The answer was to experiment with Tumblr and Google+, followed by LinkedIn after they invited me to join their pilot programme. Google+ & LinkedIn disappointed, so I returned here, kept experimenting with Medium, and started curating Stuff I Like, Think & Do every day on a Content Hub I built on Tumblr, which also hosts my fortnightly "best of" newsletter (subscribe).

Why? Check out my Personal Content Strategy.

Finally, in mid-October 2017, ten years to the day from my first post, I shuttered this blog.

 

Contact me for work via LinkedIn or my company's boring brochureware website.

- Mathew, March 2016


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