Peter Mandelson, the UK Commissioner for Trade, is more popular than his EU colleagues amongst bloggers. The sometimes controversial Mandelson is EU Commissioner for Trade since November 2004. Interestingly enough his second most discussed colleague is the Commissioner for Competition Neelie Smit with whom he had some dealings after it had been revealed that Mandelson spent some time with Microsofts Paul Allen when Microsoft was under investigation.
On YouTube Mandelson has strong visibility competition for Commissioner from Media and Information Society, the Luxembourgish Viviane Redding, still Mandelson has higher visibility than the Commission President Barroso. (click images to enlarge)
For some time we have monitored the online visibility of EU Commissioners. The aim is to look the relationship between certain policy areas, the Commissioner in charge and how that can be addressed to spesific events people in the blogoshere care about. Looking in detail at these findings could well be a usefull exercise for the European Commission and those in charge of particular policy areas.
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Peter Mandelson, the UK Commissioner for Trade, is more popular than his EU colleagues amongst bloggers. The sometimes controversial Mandelson is EU Commissioner for Trade since November 2004. Interestingly enough his second most discussed colleague is the Commissioner for Competition Neelie Smit with whom he had some dealings after it had been revealed that Mandelson spent some time with Microsofts Paul Allen when Microsoft was under investigation. 
