March 2008 - Posts

• You May Prefer to Give us a Call... Part 2

  If you enjoyed my last post , you'll love this one. I've been trying to transfer my electricity supply to another supplier since I moved into my house last September. A catalogue of errors on the part of the incumbent supplier mean that it has only just Read More... Posted 28 March 2008 10:41 by Niall Cook | 2 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous, Marketing Technology, Reputation, Personal

• You May Prefer to Give us a Call...

  I should have known better than to attempt to use public transport the first day after a bank holiday weekend. In the UK, they're the times when demand is high yet supply decreases as a result of "engineering works". Over Christmas there was an outcry Read More... Posted 25 March 2008 16:26 by Niall Cook | 2 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous, Marketing Technology, Reputation, Personal

• What do you think?

  Flicking through the TV channels last week, I came across the following sketch from That Mitchell and Webb Show that I first heard on radio (as always, a much funnier medium). It's a fantastic parody of mainstream media's attitude towards user-generated Read More... Posted 25 March 2008 14:48 by Niall Cook | 2 Comments

• The worst social media of 2007?

  At South by Southwest Interactive ( SXSWi ), a panel of judges has just chosen the winners (or should that be losers?) of The Suxorz - "the Worst of the Worst in Social Media Marketing for 2007". As some of the companies nominated are clients and I do Read More... Posted 12 March 2008 10:57 by Niall Cook | 3 Comments

• Pot calls kettle black

  UPDATE: Rainier PR's Stephen Waddington chips in with 'Flat Earth debate disappoints' (Great first comment too) UPDATE 2: Press Gazette has now published their write-up (no doubt they were checking their facts and quotes, unlike us bloggers) and Guy has Read More... Posted 06 March 2008 10:13 by Niall Cook | 3 Comments