Over the course of the General Election myself and Conor of the European Citizen shall be writing a Blog Election Round up on MSN Ireland. Conor has the first round up done and I will be doing tomorrow. So if you have links, videos, tweets anything at all let us know! You can email stephen@stephenspillane.com or just leave a comment here on the post on MSN or Conor’s blog!
I received this today which may be of interest to some readers. The European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) and the Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF) have the pleasure to announce the launch of the Third Edition of the Sea of Words Literary Competition. We encourage the production of short stories that portray the different realities of the Euro-Mediterranean region from the point of view of the young people who live there, through the organisation of a Euro-Med short story...
M van den Broeke on Twitter asked this question, Should serious EU bloggers get some sort of accreditation to EU institutions? But on what criteria? Firstly I say fair play to her for bringing up the question. Its one that should be asked more, and not just by the EU. I must say Irish political parties have been good at facilitating bloggers, so maybe other institutions should start soon? But back to the question at hand. As pointed out...
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Today I implemented a change to how I use facebook as a bit of an experiment. Normally my blog posts are automatically imported as notes on my own page. From today that is no longer the case. I have set up a fan page for this blog and in future all notes shall be imported there. Do become a fan! I wonder how it will go?
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Some people have noticed a lack of blogging about Eurovision lately, and there are many reasons for that, college, work, etc. Well never fear, as I am back on the Eurovision blogging trail. I have joined ESCIreland.com as a blogger and I will be doing the majority of my blogging on Eurovision over there, but I will continue to post my previews and (dire) predictions here. So head over to ESCIreland.com and check...
Well tomorrow I am off to Barcelona for the Anna Lindh Foundation Forum 2010. I will be live-blogging and tweeting about the forum, with the help of a few others. I know I am not a big user of twitter at the moment, but college is taking up a lot of the time I would have spent on it, so I will be back to it tomorrow. You too, though, will be able to see whats happening and pass...
Image by kingdesmond1337 via Flickr Well what a way to start the day, I found out that this blog has been nominated for the Best Political Blog at the 2010 Irish Blog Awards. I am chuffed. There are 36 other great blogs in nominated in the category, so I am not expecting great things, but it is nice to be nominated! It has set me up nicely for today. Thank you who ever nominated me. I am very grateful!...
Image via Wikipedia I got this via Email from the European Journalism Centre. I took part in Th!nk1 and Th!nk2 (though didn’t finish it). Do check it out. The European Journalism Centre (EJC) invites you to apply for the third round of our acclaimed blogging competition, TH!NK3: Developing World. TH!NK3 will bring together some 100 bloggers, journalists, issue experts and students from the 27 EU member states, as well as neighbourhood countries and beyond, to exchange ideas and debate...
Again this year DG Enlargement are running the European Young Journalist Award 2010. (post on last years competition is here). Its simple, if your aged between 17-35 you can enter the competition. All you need to do is send them a copy of your published work and your in the competition. The work must be published between the 1 October 2007 to 28 February 2010. This means you can still get stuff done for it. The 28 February is...
Image via Wikipedia The Anna Lindh Foundation Forum 2010 takes place in Barcelona from the 4th of March to the 7th of March. The Forum aims to give new momentum to the cooperation among civil society organizations committed to intercultural dialogue in the Union for the Mediterranean region and to enrich the activities of the forty-three National Networks of the Anna Lindh Foundation The Forum is being organised by the Anna Lindh Foundation in partnership with the European Institute...
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