Category: Europe
By neville on Apr 30, 2008 in Communication, Europe, Mobile, Politics | 0 Comments
Channel 4 broadcast a hard-hitting report on Monday by its Dispatches investigative reporting team on the UK mobile phone business.
Allegations of sharp practices by mobile phone retailers (an outfit called Phones4U came under especially severe criticism), denial of responsibility by mobile operators when things go wrong with changing contracts, and government collusion to keep voice [...]
By neville on Apr 20, 2008 in Communication, Europe, Events, Presentations, Professional Development, Public Relations, Social Media, Web | 1 Comment
One of my reflections on Disruptive Media, the conference in Stockholm last week in which I participated, is that being part of an event where everyone speaks a language that you don’t can present a few challenges.
Luckily, this is Sweden I’m talking about where, just as in the Netherlands, people go out of their [...]
By neville on Apr 7, 2008 in Communication, Europe, Events, IABC, Professional Development | 0 Comments
The 2008 IABC International Conference takes place on June 22-25 in New York City.
Four days of learning and making connections at a professional development event that’s unrivalled anywhere else.
If you’re an IABC member in Europe thinking about going but can’t budget the costs, the IABC Europe Middle East Region has some great news for [...]
By neville on Mar 26, 2008 in Communication, Europe, Mainstream Media, Politics, Public Relations, Society | 4 Comments
French president Nicolas Sarkozy is in the UK on a state visit, the first by a French leader in over a decade.
Watching the BBC News 24 live coverage this morning of his arrival at Windsor Castle for all the pomp and ceremony associated with such occasions - see this 6-minute Qik video I did [...]
By neville on Mar 17, 2008 in Communication, Europe, Events, Professional Development, Public Relations, Social Media, Social Networks, Twitter, Web | 4 Comments
The EuroBlog 2008 conference in Brussels, which ended on Saturday, brought together about 100 people from the worlds of PR academia and PR practice from across Europe and from the USA.
The event was billed as "Social media and the future of PR: New ideas, new research, new business" and featured a number of presentations [...]
By neville on Mar 16, 2008 in Business, Europe, Politics, Public Relations, Technology, Web | 0 Comments
I’m probably one of the relatively few Englishmen who think the European Union is a good thing.
After all, I am from a country that talks about Europe generally as a separate place, as in "I’m going to Europe" rather than "I’m going to continental Europe." Or even "I’m going to the Continent," always with [...]
By neville on Mar 12, 2008 in Communication, Europe, Events, Professional Development, Public Relations, Social Media, Social Networks, Twitter | 1 Comment
I’m heading to Brussels tomorrow to participate in EuroBlog 2008, a two-day conference that mashes up academia and PR to produce an event that I’m sure will be worth the time of everyone attending, speakers and guests alike.
This is the third such annual event organized by The European Public Relations Education and Research Association [...]
By neville on Feb 6, 2008 in Business, Communication, Entertainment, Europe, Marketing, Music, Online Media, Public Relations, Web | 4 Comments
A number of things struck me as I sat in a briefing room in Microsoft’s main London office yesterday morning.
The occasion was a press event by Microsoft to announce their vision for online video in Europe including their strategy for MSN Video, its on-demand free video channel on the web.
Probably the biggest news was [...]
By neville on Dec 27, 2007 in Climate Change, Europe, Politics, Society | 8 Comments
Did you have a great Christmas? We did in our family, a time of year when everyone gets together - parents, children, siblings, cousins - to simply enjoy each others’ company in a relaxed atmosphere.
Plenty to eat and drink, lots of great conversations, and the pleasure of giving and receiving gifts.
There is a dark side, [...]
By neville on Dec 11, 2007 in Europe, Events, Innovation, Professional Development, Social Networks, Technology, Web | 1 Comment
If you’re in tech, Silicon Valley may be the place you pay attention to for 363 or so days of the year, but for the other two, Paris is the place to be right now.
Today Le Web 3 ‘07 Fourth Edition kicks off, the brainchild event from Loic Le Meur, where nearly 1,800 people [...]
