The Search for ‘Peter’ Finalists’ videos….

Here they are, they finalists for The Search for ‘Peter’. They’ve all gone off and made a video telling us why they think they should appear in our new series ‘Fishing in the Footsteps of Mr Crabtree’ broadcasting Autumn 2012. They’re a fabulous bunch of kids and frankly we’re very happy that it’s not us [...]

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A face for radio

Today I made my radio debut.  That’s  ‘sat in a studio’ radio as opposed to ‘hogging the mic at a charity event’ radio. I’m much more used to being behind the scenes, very happy to coach others in how to address a camera, or a microphone (you know what they say about ‘those who can’t’), [...]

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Fishing for a TV star

The Search for ‘Peter’ Mr. Crabtree goes fishing, written by the late Bernard Venables, began life in the Daily Mirror where it was serialised for over 25 years.  It remains the largest selling fishing book of all time. The Mirror Group, in conjunction with Toast Entertainment Group, the Angler’s Mail and Anglers’ net is launching [...]

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A Partnership with Save the Children

International women’s website In the Powder Room is partnering with Save the Children on its #PassItOn outreach campaign. The intention is to help save 4 million children’s lives through the global adoption of a vaccination program being debated at a summit hosted by David Cameron in London on June 13th 2011. Save the Children is [...]

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Giveaways Galore In the Powder Room

Newly launched international women’s website In the Powder Room is running a month of back-to-back fabulous giveaways for its global audience.  Kicking off with the sold out NIP+FAB range, the swag-bag giveaways have seen women flocking to the site eager to nab themselves a freebie. Editor in chief Gigi Eligoloff says:” We place high expectations [...]

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Where does the time go?!

This place is being sorely neglected lately.  Not only did I promise it a complete overhaul back in December, I also told myself that I’d be writing here on a weekly basis and keeping up with ‘stuff’. Oh well, all in good time…

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From kittens to lasers in one sleek step….

I guess we all have those jobs that we’d love to be doing if we weren’t doing what we are doing.  In my case there’s a massively long list that includes such diverse choices as Divemaster, Furniture Restorer, Vet, X Factor winner and Creative Director of a successful advertising agency.  I have the skills to [...]

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The everso slightly embarrassed post….

Oh hello November! What on earth did you do with October? I swear I was just about to sit down and have a coffee with him.  So *coughs shamefully* here I am blogging about communications and I’ve gone and committed the cardinal sin myself.  It’s been 33 days since my last post which I know [...]

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Social Media in Practice

I’m always interested in reports and surveys about social media – who uses it, how they use it, what they expect of it and so on.  BUT, I’m a bit of a cynic and often wonder about the metrics used, who commissioned the survey and why, and what the underlying interest was.

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Not LinkedIn? oo-ar-ya? (and other stadium chants..)

Still thinking that LinkedIn is just for recruitment agencies and social media addicts? Go sit on that naughty step and think again. If you’re trying to make new contacts the chances are that they’ll look you up on LinkedIn first.  Google searches typically throw up LinkedIn profiles amongst the top hits and you need to [...]

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