February 22nd 2024
While other issues still dominate headlines, whispers in the European capital hint a brewing social media storm: a power duel between the former blue bird and Zuckerberg’s newborn threa…t. Twitter used to be the default platform for EU policy debate. #TBT to 2015: Remember those old days when, under Juncker’s tenure, the European Commissioner for […]
November 24th 2022
We have to talk about the elephant in the room…a massive one that goes by the name of Mastodon. With Elon Musk taking control of Twitter, many are now thinking about joining this platform instead. What is Mastodon? Mastodon is a decentralised open-source software for running self-hosted servers. This enables communities to communicate with one another. […]
April 5th 2022
We have just experienced a series of intensifying crises. From Brexit, the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine, there is a fast succession of unprecedented and world-changing events, catching us by surprise and putting communicators in a very difficult position. The most frequent reaction in the immediate aftermath of the crisis is to stop all […]
September 8th 2021
Here they are! The top EU influencers of 2021. It is a great mix of personalities and again, we have a non-English tweeting winner: ZDF-correspondent Stefan Leifert. Please share the lists on social media and let us know your thoughts. Tweet Tweet Methodology We created two rankings: Top influencers in ten categories (step […]
December 14th 2020
It was great to see the fantastic crowd of influencers that gathered at our fourth – and first hybrid – #EUinfluencer event. And it was @marcoRecorder, @BrusselsGeek (Jennifer Baker) and @PabloPerezA that joined us for the first of three enthralling panel debates that day. For this first debate, I wanted to delve into how the […]
October 13th 2020
Our fourth – and first 100% digital – #EUinfluencer event brought together an amazing crowd of influential people. They discussed the hot topics of today ahead of the grand reveal of the new #EUinfluencer ranking. We invited Pia Ahrenkilde, Director-General for Communication at European Commission, to open the event. We asked her how important communication […]
September 30th 2020
Thursday, 24th September – our fourth #EUinfluencer. While very different from previous years, it was more engaging than ever. We’ve had 200 people #IRL at our event for the last three years. This year, #EUinfluencer was fully virtual and broadcast live on our website, Facebook and Twitter. At ZN, we like using our own events […]
July 7th 2020
Has Covid-19 permanently shifted Brussels Bubble communication towards digital or are we going back to the way things (once) were?
May 26th 2020
For our second #Hyperchat we looked into what is probably one of the most critical conversations we’re going to have as a society in the coming months: the vaccine for COVID-19 and the conversation taking place on social media around vaccination. Our virtual event brought together vaccine and communication experts from all over the world. […]
May 6th 2020
So what’s the most fun you can have on a Wednesday afternoon in late April while maintaining social distancing?