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February 8, 2010 View CommentsI’ve come straight from reading a post on MediaBistro about Alex Bogusky being promoted and retiring at the same time – those crazy advertising kids! But something that Mr Bogusky said really resonated with me, he said; “I had one seemingly impossible dream when I started in advertising and that was to leave the industry [...]
The internet is an odd place. We login to all of our little networks, chat crap with our friends and share news and tips with our competitors. It’s that whole web2.0 sharing <insert buzzword> social <insert buzzword> thing.
So I’ve neglected my blog for a while. Don’t worry, this isn’t one of those ‘Oh God, I’ve just been soooo busy’ posts. I work smart, not hard (I do work hard, honest Stuart!). It’s official; I’m going to write more stuffs. It’s also going to be redesigned and probably renamed (more on that later [...]
I hope that you appreciate the irony in this post as it’s meant, because it is meant. I’m sat on the train to London and East Midland Mainline don’t provide wi-fi or power points. And I’m sat in the quiet coach. None of these things really work with me, I’m no good without something to [...]
So, here I am, sat behind a lovely little desk in a building in the Lace Market (Lace Market House, genius!) giving people badges and smiles and trying to minimise my sarcasm (some people don’t ‘get’ my sarcasm immediately!). I sat in the first session of the day this morning, Susi O’Neill spoke about how [...]
You heard me, Media Camp Nottingham is happening. Tomorrow. OK, I realise that I’m writing this a bit late, but you should turn up, rock out and learn a bit, yeah? For those of you that don’t know, Media Camp is ace (‘mad-props’ to Chris Hambly). It’s an un-conference were loads of social interweb folks [...]
I read over Matthew Watsons post last night on whether or not #PRFail is a #PRFail and I started bashing out a bit of a comment and it ended up being a bit of an essay, so I thought I’d write it here and then link Matthew up to the eyeballs. The premise of Matthews [...]
OK, so this is a little bit contentious. Everyone harps on about follower numbers don’t matter this and it’s not a popularity contest that. For certain people, it is. And it should be. Let’s ‘unwrap this a little bit’.
I attended the excellent NMK online PR debate last night and came away with plenty to think about. Other than the Q&A session at which point those posing questions became either; a) guarded or b) salesy (it must’ve felt like a shark tank for the one client that attended), the debate covered a lot of [...]
We’re getting closer to the end of the academic year and dissertation deadlines are either fast approaching (just ask Kristen, my new best friend, who’s a few weeks away) or have just passed (cue sigh of relief, only to be quickly followed by the immediate realisation that now you have to find a job). Those [...]
So I had my geekiest moment last night. An epiphany of geek if you will… I went to bed relatively early after having a pretty rough day, and did the final check of email and twitter and I caught eye of a fist fight little debate that was just winding up on Twitter involving Wadds, [...]
The last few days has seen some of you crazy animals talking about public relations and journalism. Charles Arthur re-stoked the fires a few days back when he suggested that public relations professionals treat journalists like car companies treat suppliers, Wadds and David Phillip both spoke about improving the reputation of the industry by regulation [...]
Yes, I probably write about this sort of stuff far too often (see here, here and maybe here) but it’s something that repeatedly bugs me. Emails arrive every day, and every day I get a little more frustrated. If I don’t let off steam here, then it could develop into some sort of medical problem. [...]
OK, so everyone thinks that they’ve nailed the art of measuring emerging media. No one has. And personally, I don’t think that anyone ever will. If I suggested you read the Hunter S. Thompson biography written by Johnny Depp, and we’re pretty good friends, would you calculate how likely that is to happen on a [...]