Journalism Business and EU Feedback on Communications

Online Journalism Review article: "New media age, new marketing strategies" by Amos Gelb.

Strong article with case studies on how "traditional" paper media have embraced the web and the shift in their industry instead of going with the "paper is dead" flow.

Feedback from the EU: "Comment on Margot Wallstrom's blog if you wish...".

That was the hint I received from the EU press office after I posted my article on the non use of blogs in the context of the EU's new communications plans. Now I appreciate the fact that my blog is read somewhere in the EU press office, or that my feed was picked up by a monitoring tool + that I got feedback. A good start with regards to citizen communications.

I also appreciate that Ms. Wallstrom has a blog and definitely tries to give us an insight in her work and what she's trying to accomplish. But... I wouldn't want to use her comment section to give my idea on how the EU should be communicating.

Rather, give us Europeans, a managed wiki, a Jam platform like the one used for the Habitat Jam (where over 39,000 people participated as equals and expressed their views, shared ideas and learned from one another) or a specific managed blog. Looking forward to see the online consultation forum announced here as from March 1.

Technorati Tags : Online+journalism+review, EU, amos+gelb, margot+wallstrom