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                   Last updated 10/05/2012
                       by Ariella de Gennaro
1. Working with the media

      EurActiv
       i. Letters to the editor
       ii. Reactions to articles
       iii. Post a press release
      European Voice
      Europolitics
      Agence Europe
      EU Observer
      New Europe
      Le Soir
      La Vie
      Parliament Magazine
      Euronews
      Europarl TV
      BBC
      EU correspondents of top-tier national media (Le Monde, The Economist)
      Press offices of the Presidencies
      Backgrounder - CIVICUS toolkit: Handling the Media (Word) or (PDF)
      Google analytics – to check website visitors (free)
      Google alerts – to monitor coverage (free)
      MediaAtlas - an expensive (+/- 10.000 EUR/year) but recommended service
       that allows you to send out a press release to thousands of journalists and
       tracks who opens it.
      Factiva - another paid service that you can use to track coverage in printed
       publications as well as online.
      Fundación Luis Vives tips: first, second
      Tips for speech writing




2. Newsletters: Services and Guides

      CIVICUS Toolkit: Producing Your Own Media (Word) or (PDF)
      TinyURL and Tynycc (URL shortening service)
      List of other URL shortening services




3. Recommended web designers / hosting providers / software providers /
IT support


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     Websiteprojects
     Ginger Up
     Digiwork (for Joomla)
     Peggy Pierrot, www.supergeante.net
     Vertige (for Joomla)
     Webdoos (Stijn Blomme)
     Prismage
     Pragmacom (William Kuypers) - also to store mailing listst and send out group
      mails
     SOCIALware (software provider, good prices for ASBL)
     ALKA (Laurent Rochez) - IT support




4. Recommended Graphic Designers / Printers / Programmes

     Media Printer (Olivier Nagels)
     David Kaligram
     Maciek Szkopanski (designer) + printing with Production Sud (Thierry Oury)
     Heloise Pondeville
     Isabelle Massu
     Drifosett (Georges Chelot)
     Chiqui Garcia 02/543 44 84
     Naos Design 02/538 13 23
     Fuel Design (Christoph)
     Pantherprint
     Kramiek
     Liv Quackels
     PBO (ex MIC Line)
     Silja Design – www.siljadesign.lv
     Jacques Goffin (banners, t-shirts) 02/640 16 92
     Beelzepub (Koen, also banners)
     IHECS university – open to projects for students in the following areas:
      graphic design; video; multimedia
     Association d’idées (Véronique Hanquet, consultant for design strategy)
      www.associationdidees.be
     Nicolas Dandois - http://www.nicomix.be/ (also cartoonist)
     Cartoonists used by E!Sharp

     Edition Imprimerie (Thierry Lejeune) tel 02/500 34 00 (printer)
     Corelio Printing (printer)
     Diarama Académique 0498 371 813 (printer)


Graphic-design programmes

     Issuu (online print-like publications)
     FotoFlexer (free online programme for graphic design)
     Picnik (free online programme for graphic design)
     Adobe Illustrator (graphic software to buy - ‘educational price for asbl’:
      543,29€ instead of 2000€)


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Banners

      Etcetera (banners)
      Modern Displays (banners)
      Beelzepub (Koen, also banners)
      Jacques Goffin (also banners) tel 02/640 16 92




5. Photo sources

      Flickr (if not open copyright, be sure to get photographer’s permission)
      Icedot
      IRIN
      Europarl database
      Council database
      OSCE database
      ILO database
      UNHCR database
      Google images
      Graphic designers’ own image databases

      Photographer during conferences: Sophie Degroote




6. Distribution of publications

      To all MEPs: Deliver your publications in person (without envelopes) to the
       garage in rue Wirtz (coming from rue Belliard, after the EP main entrance)
      To people in the Commission: send a Taxi Vert with envelopes following these
       address guidelines to central Commission post: Avenue du Bourget n° 1, 1140
       Evere
      To national Ministers and Heads of State: through their Permanent
       Representations




7. Translation services

      LEXITECH - www.lexitech.eu
      Dirk Bärenwald (translating to GERMAN)


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      Astrid Eckstein (translating to GERMAN)
      Brussels Language Service (BLS), www.bls-lang.com
      Translation schools which run internships for students:
       o Haute Ecole Léonard de Vinci : Institut Libre Marie Haps (ILMH),
       www.ilmh.be
       o Haute Ecole de Bruxelles : Institut Supérieur de Traduction et Interprète –
       (ISTI), www.heb.be/isti
       o Haute Ecole de la CF du Hainaut : Ecole d'Interprètes Internationaux (EII),
       www.eii.umh.ac.be
      Google translator (beware – you may get amusing results)
      Babelfish (ditto)
      Brussels editing (proofreading and rewriting)
      Cumverbis (translation and interpretation cooperative)




8. Web Accessibility Guidelines and companies

      European Blind Union Accessibility Guidelines
      Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
      W3C Recommendations (web content accessibility guidelines)
      RNIB See it Right guidelines
      Centre for Inclusive Technology
      Markup Validation Service (check online the markup of Web documents)
      Technosite (accessibility and usability services)
      Anysurfer (quality label for accessible websites in Belgium)
      Accessibility Foundation (provide expertise on accessibility)
      Hands-Free Computing (assessment of current situation and needs)
      Contact Aurélien (EDF)




9. Database Systems (for email lists and contact details)

      Mozilla Thunderbird (open source, from the people behind Firefox)
      Listserv (on external server)
      Filemaker
      Microsoft Outlook, Access or Excel
      Lists to buy (European Parliament, Public Affairs Directories)
      Majordomo, http://www.mj2.org/ - mailing list manager
      PHPlist (mailing list manager, CRM)
      Visual Contatcs Database (based on Access - Guy ALVARES)
      CiviCRM (Xavier Dutoit)




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10. Language and styleguides

      European Commission’s Citizens Summaries
      Interactive Terminology for Europe (IATE), - translation of EU Jargon
      Plain Language Commission
      Styleguides:
       1. The Commission
       2. The Economist
       3. The Guardian
      Press release grader – submit your text and get a readability score
      The idiom dictionary – insert your phrases to test how clichéd they are Also
       good for writing headlines and titles.
      Confusing words
      Glossary for Integration and equal opportunities (EN/DE/FR)
      CIVICUS Communication toolkits
      CIVICUS Toolkit: Writing Effectively & Powerfully (Word) or (PDF)
      CIVICUS Toolkit: Writings Within Your Organisation (Word) or (PDF)




11. Training providers

      Technofuturtic in Gosselies (45 mins from Brussels), for online
       communications. Trainings in French. See their upcoming sessions
      MIMAT (Cailin Mackenzie, public speaking trainer)




12. Audiovisual tools

      AUDACE-av (Mauricio Javier Machuca Rodríguez), Producer, Director,
       Audiovisual Technician
      Maxime Kouvaras (0486.29.67.55)
      Erik Lambert (0486.51.41.90)
      Zoé Catsaras
      Karim Gangji
      B-One (Ismaël Boutaour)
      Myagy


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      LetMeShowYou (Lorenzo Bown)

      Windows Live Movie Maker (free)
      Adobe Premiere Pro
      Final Cut Pro X (Mac)

      Prezi (Zooming presentation editor)
      CamStudio (Streaming Video software)
      Bambuser (live broadcast)




13. Web Conferencing, webinars and web forum

      WiZiQ (for E-Learning with Web Conferencing)
      Zoho
      Skype
      Belgacom Meeting Services
      GoToWebinar
      anymeeting
      Adobe web conferencing
      iLinc
      Manymoon / Do
      Yammer (entreprise social network)
      Oovo
      Talking Communities (accessible)
      Dekom




14. Wikis

      Comparisons of Wikis (on Wikipedia and on WikiMatrix)
      Wikispaces (free and paid)
      Confluence (paid)
      Mediawiki (free software wiki)




   15. Newsletter softwares



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      MailChimp (Newsletter software)
      EmailGarage (Newsletter software)




16. Petitions websites

      ONE international
      Care2 Petitions
      The Petitions online
      La petition.be
      ipetitions




17. Advertise events online

   •      EU Agenda
   •      EUcalendar
   •      European Agenda
   •      Eurocalendar
   •      DG EMPL website (contact)
   •      DG Home, European Website on Integration




18. Promotional material

   •      Laynards: Tee comme (Marianne)
   •      Canvas: IGEP (Elisabeth DRIELSMA)




19. Various

      Event planning tools (14 media tool to plan events)
      Web Questionnaires/Forms (4 web tools)
      Social Media in Lifelong Learning (Johanni from EAEA Facebook page with
       Communication links)
      Online surveys: Polldaddy; Surveymonkey
      Campaigns planning: Seeds of Change guide
      Communication ressources – Charity Comms


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