Category: Europe

  • No painless switching to Open Office

    The French parliament has said ‘au revoir’ to Microsoft, according to a Yahoo News report: […] Starting [next June], French deputies will use desktops and servers running Linux, Mozilla’s Firefox web browser, and OpenOffice.org, a free open-source alternative to Microsoft’s…

  • Highway robbery and other tales from the road

    Mainz in Germany is an attractive city. That’s where I spent the night on Sunday ahead of a full day on Monday with a client in Rüsselsheim. I stayed at the Hyatt Regency. Right on the bank of the river…

  • PodcastCon UK: Compelling content and great music

    ‘Podcasting: the road ahead’ is a pretty good strapline for PodcastCon UK 2006, the one-day conference on UK podcasting that took place in London on Saturday. One major impression I have is how different this conference was compared to the…

  • Social media, Second Life – New thinking about PR

    One of the great things about conferences on social media (blogs, wikis, podcasting) is the wide variety of comment and opinion they tend to generate among everyone who participates. With more than 120 participants, Friday’s Delivering The New PR in…

  • EuroBlog 2007 survey

    Last year’s EuroBlog 2006 survey gave an overview of who in the communication profession in Europe is using blogs and for what purpose. The most interesting result to me was how survey respondents saw the opportunities for and from blogs,…