Next month will see the annual Europe Day Celebrations take place on May 9th. This is year, the European Movement International have decided to have a theme to this years celebrations and have decided on “United in Diversity” (sound familiar?).
They have created a logo and a page for all the events taking place across Europe.
There will be events organised in Ireland and if you know of any please email stephen(at)stephespillane(dot)com and I will publish them.
The lovely people at the European Movement Ireland tell me there will be something happening in Ireland on the 7th of May, as Europe Day is on a Sunday this year. So stayed tuned!
Update: The people who run bloggingportal.eu are looking for ideas on how we could celebrate Europe Day online. If you have any ideas, please post them in the comments! Thank you!
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Hi, Stephen,
Do you still feel up for co-ordinating something across the blogs?
Joe
.-= Joe Litobarski´s last blog ..Julien Frisch’s Café Babel Interview =-.
I would be if we can agree a subject!
Well, I front-paged it on Bloggingportal, so maybe that’ll get some ideas going.
I like Mathew’s idea of trying to take a snapshot of the European blogosphere, to see what different groups are talking about on Europe Day. We could each pick a language – then go out with Google Translate and do some research and then write a paragraph each in a joint post on Bloggingportal.
.-= Joe Litobarski´s last blog ..Julien Frisch’s Café Babel Interview =-.
That is one idea Joe, I am not sure how that would increase participation though. That is basically what we are supposed to be doing anyway on bloggingportal! That why I liked the idea of having a theme, it may encourage people who don’t normally blog about Europe to blog about it.
I mentioned that idea to a few friends who run non-eu blogs and they were up for it.
What you think?
Now that does sound interesting…
But how would it work in practice? We would write to non-EU bloggers? What sort of themes were you thinking of?
.-= Joe Litobarski´s last blog ..Julien Frisch’s Café Babel Interview =-.
That would be easy, we create a post on the bloggingportal blog to link all the posts, we ask those writing the posts to link to that post so that they can be found. We promote the idea on our own blogs. And we write to non-eu bloggers.
The theme that I am liking at the moment is “My Europe”. What do you think?
Oh and we would run it from the 3rd-9th of May.
or we could get them to email the link to an account. Possibilities are endless!
I like your idea about Bloggingportal linking to the different posts.
“My Europe” week. One post from each of us – entitled “My Europe: …..” about what we would like to see as the future of Europe (e.g. “My Europe: More Democracy, Less Bureaucracy”)
Now we have less than a month to pull this off. It would be great to get some non-EU bloggers involved.
.-= Joe Litobarski´s last blog ..Julien Frisch’s Café Babel Interview =-.
I will work on a post/email that can be put on the bloggingportal blog and linked to from our own blogs and sent to non-euro bloggers.
Sound like a plan?
As a blog-follower I like the idea of a “My Europe” post. Will look forward to reading some (hopefully) non-EU blogger posts – on bloggingportal, of course. Go to it guys!
Thanks for the support Derek!
There’s also some discussion going on about this on the Bloggingportal Editors mailing list.
I think we’ve (more or less) decided to have a “My Europe” week, where bloggers write about what they would like Europe to look like in the future.
As you say, Derek – now we need to get some non-EU bloggers involved…
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