Archive for August, 2009

Welcome to guest bloggers

By Rebecca Caroe Monday August 31, 2009

Thanks for all your replies to my request for guest bloggers. Really grateful to you all. I will reveal two new writers over the next two weeks…. sit back and enjoy.

Guest bloggers needed

By Rebecca Caroe Friday August 28, 2009

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I'm off on a short trip and would love to have some guest bloggers fill in during my absence. anyone interested – please get in touch. And thanks to all our readers for sticking around and contributing to the biz dev issues and discussions on CreativeAgencySecrets.

London Geek Girl Dinner 4th Anniversary

By Rebecca Caroe Thursday August 27, 2009

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Last night I went to C4 where the great Sarah Blow was hosting her last GGD (she's moving onto new roles working on international and charitable status for the organisation). A fine crowd listened to the panel speaking on Technology, Gender & Public Perception through Media live and online with TechfluffTV's support. Moderator, Maggie Philbin [...]

What will business life be like in the future?

By Rebecca Caroe Wednesday August 26, 2009

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I wanted to start this post with a flow diagram t hat resonated with me so much that I immediately sent it to my Mother. I’ve been doing ‘tech support’ for my family for years, and for Geoff and, and, and. I expect you’ve been doing it too. But although funny, truthful and nicely wry, [...]

Yet more crowdsourcing – now for adverts

By Rebecca Caroe Tuesday August 25, 2009

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You've probably all read about Lowe and Pepperami parting company and the project being listed on ideabounty.com for all and sundry to pitch. Image by treehouse1977 via Flickr Great opportunity or terrible waste of time? The debate rages on but here's my ha'pennysworth. Go opensource. Publicise as if your survival depended on it. If you [...]

An apology

By Rebecca Caroe Tuesday August 25, 2009

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I'd like to apologise for anyone who tried to visit the site on Monday. It was down. the reason was that we've gone over our monthly bandwidth allowance and it took a little time to re-set because the warning messages hadn't got through. Sorry to you, delighted from me becuase more people are reading more [...]

Crowdsourced customer-buy-out of Nabaztag proposed

By Rebecca Caroe Friday August 21, 2009

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Image via Wikipedia I have been contacted by Emmanuel Moll – an old rowing contact, who is involved with the French movement to get customers to club togehter to buy out the management of the Nabaztag wifi rabbit toy service company. I was wondering if you could help me with something. I recently started an [...]

Win a copy of “Ignore Everybody”

By Rebecca Caroe Friday August 21, 2009

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Yesterday I published a review of the new Hugh MacLeod book "Ignore Everybody". And I promised to give away the two copies that I got from Hugh's pre-order promotion. And so here's how you can enter MY competition. I have two copies of the book, one is signed by Hugh with a unique cartoon and [...]

My book review of “Ignore Everybody”

By Rebecca Caroe Thursday August 20, 2009

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Image by David Sifry via CrunchBase Hugh MacLeod has written his first print book, Ignore Everybody and 39 other keys to creativity. It's going great guns on Amazon (follow @gapingvoid twitter stream for updates). Being a cunning marketeer as well as a creative cartoonist and uber-blogger, Hugh ran a great pre-launch promotion (sadly in the [...]