http://www.eurosocialist.eu/generation-2-0-not-just-a-technological-revolution-it%e2%80%99s-a-cultural-revolution/ a blog by a French PES activist Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:43:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.eurosocialist.eu/generation-2-0-not-just-a-technological-revolution-it%e2%80%99s-a-cultural-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-503 Eurosocialist » Blog Archive » Dear Commissioners, stop broadcasting, and start engaging! Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:02:06 +0000 http://www.eurosocialiste.eu/generation-2-0-not-just-a-technological-revolution-it%e2%80%99s-a-cultural-revolution/#comment-503 [...] Dear Commissioners, you can’t be serious. Communicating with citizens is actually easy to do: just go where they are. You ought to take an example from the European Parliament president, Jerzy Buzek, who has a remarkably different approach: 2.462 fans on Facebook, an official Twitter profile that has already 1.006 followers, though it opened just a few weeks ago, and he is the only one of the above to have links to his social network accounts on his Web page. Last month the European Commission’s Internet editors and webmasters published an appeal to their bosses so that they start harnessing the power of the Internet for better communication. This letter clearly shows that the Commission has competent staff on the matter. The question then is: how long will EU leaders keep on ignoring the communication revolution that is taking place at the moment? [...] [...] Dear Commissioners, you can’t be serious. Communicating with citizens is actually easy to do: just go where they are. You ought to take an example from the European Parliament president, Jerzy Buzek, who has a remarkably different approach: 2.462 fans on Facebook, an official Twitter profile that has already 1.006 followers, though it opened just a few weeks ago, and he is the only one of the above to have links to his social network accounts on his Web page. Last month the European Commission’s Internet editors and webmasters published an appeal to their bosses so that they start harnessing the power of the Internet for better communication. This letter clearly shows that the Commission has competent staff on the matter. The question then is: how long will EU leaders keep on ignoring the communication revolution that is taking place at the moment? [...]

]]> http://www.eurosocialist.eu/generation-2-0-not-just-a-technological-revolution-it%e2%80%99s-a-cultural-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-458 Eurosocialist » Blog Archive » So long 2009! Welcome 2010! Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:53:36 +0000 http://www.eurosocialiste.eu/generation-2-0-not-just-a-technological-revolution-it%e2%80%99s-a-cultural-revolution/#comment-458 [...] status quo is quite depressing. On a more positive note, 2009 was also the year where I started to blog, tweet, and more generally use all kinds of social media tools avidly. I got involved in exciting projects such as bloggingportal.eu -the EU blog aggregator- and [...] [...] status quo is quite depressing. On a more positive note, 2009 was also the year where I started to blog, tweet, and more generally use all kinds of social media tools avidly. I got involved in exciting projects such as bloggingportal.eu -the EU blog aggregator- and [...]

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