Writing tips in 2008

After almost 3 months of work without a pause it is time to write a little bit about what is going on behind the iron curtain of the EJC. Until the end of the last year most of our time and afford went into a tender to reinvent the online as well as print appearance of the European Commission. This was so time consuming that I forgot to change the featured video on the website almost ten times. Apparently nobody is watching it anyhow and so, I guess, it does not make any difference. Other things that kept us busy where this website and all the others we maintain and come up with. Our digital mastermind also released his baby called eufeeds. This site aggregates over 200 news sources, ordered by country, and give them a shiny look and feel.

We also won a tender for the European Parliament and our mastermind behind all our tender application, who also writes articles on our magazine page (I do not know if somebody who reads this has ever seen the magazine section on the website because our statistics show us that it is the nobody-clicks-it section of our entire website), is working on new tenders all day and night long.

For my part, I do now the “Europe a week ahead"-video for our eu4journalist website together with Anne Autio, our in house voice of the week. She was the news anchor for Finnish Broadcast and the best one I know. Beside that I also start writing for our magazine that is so unpopular that its save to gain some writing skills without. Here is what I learned so far from my writing like a journalist teacher Kathlyn:

THEIR – possessive… I went to their house. I want their dog.

THEY’RE = “They are” They’re going swimming. They’re really hot. They’re going to Israel. They’re wonderful!

THERE – I want to go there. We are there. Who is there?

Only and just – NONONONOONONO! These are judgemental words.

On/of/with/for/by/ don’t end (these are prepositions)

The declaration of independance made by the man is really cool.

The Declaration of Independance made by the man is really cool.

http://suspense.net/whitefish/cliche.htm --> Do not use them.

In two weeks Kathlyn and me are going to the BarCamp Baltic and get in contact with some good looking bloggers:)

Posted on January 30, 2008 by .
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picnic07 supplement

No time to breath, no time to enjoy and to much stuff to do. The picnic event was very exciting and interesting and for those of you who where not in Amsterdam three weeks ago here is the picnic07 video archive with the highlights of this extraordinary event. Right after the picnic Arne
and me went to London for the “Future of Webapp - conference” which was an highlight on its own and he will post very soon
something about it. After this two exciting events I needed holiday. So far so good. But there was a conference that I would want to attend namely the Virtual Worlds 2007 Conference and Expo in San Jose because of two Facts: First, I have no clue where San Jose is and Second, It sounds like it would be a good place to stay for a few days more just to relax. Besides here are the mp3s recordings of the last Virtual Worlds Conference in Spring this year.

Posted on October 12, 2007 by .
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The Revolution will be live

After Kathlyn has cleaned out all my mistakes in my blog-entries I am allowed to post some new stuff.  And it would not be me if it would not be a video. Everybody is talking about a revolution in the media and subsequently in society. Nobody seems to doubt it, even those who are old enough and do not need to adjust to this new wave of information that drips from our fingertips every moment. So what I have here is a little masterpiece. So enjoy it!

Posted on August 29, 2007 by .
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Past Lectures - Europe and the Islam

It feels like a lot of time has passed since I recorded my first lecture here in Maastricht.

The lecture fostered a debate that, to the surprise of the organisers, was a big success. So as a small gift to the EJC blog: Here it is, an old, rusty lecture recorded at the University of Maastricht earlier this year.

For all who really want to enter into the arena of debate, the Middle East Media Research Institute offers valuable Information about the region, background stories and actual video material.

Posted on June 27, 2007 by .
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Jeremy Rifkin: The European Dream

Here is my masterpiece, a recorded lecture.
If you watch it, just imagine you are the one behind the camera, the one whose goal it is to record the happening in a straight way.
But, everything went wrong.
Initially, I wanted to publish an article, that will come tomorrow - I hope.

Posted on June 2, 2007 by .
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Prerecorded Live Interview

Here you see the director of the European Journalism Centre in a video I recorded yesterday for a conference at Stanford University.
Wilfried Ruetten talks about the big buzzwords “Innovation Journalism” (duration 17 mins).
And I am very happy that the embedding of Google Videos works out so nicely, too!

Also, the lecture I promised in the previous post is now to 24 percent ready, according to my Avid Xpress editing software.

Posted on May 22, 2007 by .
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