Communications Consultant
Communications Consultant
24 June 2010
Football fervour
Like almost everyone else I’m glued to the TV in spite of myself, watching matches between teams I know absolutely nothing about, in the hope of some on-pitch magic.
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Communications Consultant
25 March 2010
‘Experience-based Narrative Memory’
The other day I was researching how to make data sexy. Because measurement is so important to communications spending plans, and because everyone needs demonstrable ROI, I was looking for ways to bring stats alive. My expectations were simple: I was really thinking about visualising data – interactive maps, real-world bar graphs, novel approaches to pie charts and the like.
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Communications Consultant
08 September 2009
Telling stories about work
On the question of what gets people out of bed in the morning: I've just seen The Hurt Locker, a film by the strange and fabulous Kathryn Bigelow, about a US Army bomb decommissioning unit in Iraq. The main character is the 'bomb tech', a madman who single-handedly defuses huge bombs in highly volatile situations. Based on a true story, the film shows us how messy, exhausting and random war is (obviously), but also how people keep - or lose - their motivation.
06 September 2010
It's enough to make you weep
This week sees the start of two TV series and the continuation of a third, all of which bring joy to my heart and cast a ray of sunshine on an otherwise dreary world.
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