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Gathering intelligence from social media monitoring: it’s not always about being techy
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Number of View: 500By @marcorecorder Open your ears It is a common misperception to think of social media as different from traditional media. I believe that the more communication technologies evolve the more we must learn to see social media as...
Content strategy: a view from Confab London
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Number of View: 114By Deirdre Hodson Content strategy A few weeks back I joined 290 people at the content strategy conference in London. The conference was organised (brilliantly!) by Together London with Kristina Halvorson and her colleagues from Co...
Apps or websites?
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Number of View: 187Written by evanbwoods I admit I was going to call this post ‘Appy talk’ but a quick search showed that 11,000 people had already had the same idea. ‘Appsolutely fabulous’? 60,500 results. It seems that I&rsq...
Tools Tuesday: Tweriod, cause timing matters
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Number of View: 209Written by @marcoRecorder Timing is a key variable when analysing online publishing and promotion. While we try to make the best out of our social media channels we should not neglect the “t” factor and make sure we are...
Wordclouding the Commission’s tweets
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Number of View: 1082Written by Marco Ricorda @marcorecorder Writing a 140-character-long bio is challenging. Not only you have to describe who you are in such a short space, but you must also be able to communicate how you want to be perceived. Besid...
100.000 Followers, 100.000 thanks
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Number of View: 1939The @EU_commission Twitter account has reached 100,000 followers!
Keep calm…and hashtag
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Number of View: 484Written by Marco Ricorda @marcorecorder It is true. Beethoven used the # to compose his immortal music and certainly wasn’t doing so with the intention of joining a Twitter chat or to check what people were sharing in the Hap...
Social media proliferation? Know your audience first!
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Number of View: 839By Marco Ricorda @marcoRecorder Every time I come across the Wikipedia list of social networking websites, I am more and more surprised by the rapid development of social media proliferation. There are now a quarter of a million si...
The ten commandments of content strategy
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Number of View: 120 This post is the last of a series on online content strategies developed in cooperation between the Europa.eu web team and web consultant Sue Davis. Thanks for everything, Sue! 1. Think ‘content first’ and ‘content a...
Choosing the channel
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Number of View: 57This blog post is part of a series on online content strategies developed in cooperation between the Europa.eu web team and web consultant Sue Davis. We will look at key resources, the relationship between content strategy and other...
Mission accomplished: the story of DG Enlargement’s new website
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Number of View: 163 On 16 October, colleagues from DG Enlargement, DG Comm and DGT, and collaborators from ESN and Namahn (contractors providing web services for Europa) came together to share the story of successful collaboration that resulted in DG...
Archiving web content
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Number of View: 16This blog post is part of a series on online content strategies developed in cooperation between the Europa.eu web team and web consultant Sue Davis. We will look at key resources, the relationship between content strategy and other...
The tyranny of ‘lorem ipsum’ and how content strategy can help
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Number of View: 2 This blog post is part of a series on online content strategies developed in cooperation between the Europa.eu web team and web consultant Sue Davis. We will look at key resources, the relationship between content strategy and ot...
Usability testing your content
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Number of View: 154 This blog post is part of a series on online content strategies developed in cooperation between the Europa.eu web team and web consultant Sue Davis. We will look at key resources, the relationship between content strategy and ot...
Top ten content strategy trailblazers
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Number of View: 110This blog post is part of a series on online content strategies developed in cooperation between the Europa.eu web team and web consultant Sue Davis. We will look at key resources, the relationship between content strategy and...
The value of content on government websites
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Number of View: 127 This blog post is part of a series on online content strategies developed in cooperation between the Europa.eu web team and web consultant Sue Davis. We will look at key resources, the relationship between content strategy and oth...
Writers, editors and content strategy
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Number of View: 165This blog post is part of a series on online content strategies developed in cooperation between the Europa.eu web team and web consultant Sue Davis. We will look at key resources, the relationship between content strategy and othe...
Content strategy: Diagrams and infographics
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Number of View: 110This blog post is part of a series on online content strategies developed in cooperation between the Europa.eu web team and web consultant Sue Davis. We will look at key resources, the relationship between content strategy and othe...
Content strategy essentials
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Number of View: 149 This blog post is part of a series on online content strategies developed in cooperation between the Europa.eu web team and web consultant Sue Davis. We will look at key resources, the relationship between content strategy and oth...
Content strategy and information architecture: a marriage made in heaven
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Number of View: 118 This blog post is part of a series on online content strategies developed in cooperation between the Europa.eu web team and web consultant Sue Davis. We will look at key resources, the relationship between content strategy and o...
