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Good use of technology

Peter — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:54:58 +0000

Nice to see the election is providing us with useful ways to use sites like twitter to measure the collective conscience.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2010/04/the_tv_debate_what_did_twitter.html

Here they come…

Peter — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:44:24 +0000

Google Set to Make Gmail Social With Status Update Features

http://mashable.com/2010/02/08/gmail-social/

A festive time

Peter — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:43:01 +0000

It’s been a busy and productive Autumn at Global Beach. We have had several good new business wins including some really interesting customer experience consultancy for Canon, a new global redesign and content management system for a British company called Pacific Direct and a design consultancy piece of work for a pureplay online PR business called PressLoft.

The recruitment of an experienced new Project Manager and a Business Development Manager has allowed me to concentrate on delivering the numbers we had forecast for the year and with our year end coming up in January we are looking to be slightly ahead of forecast which we can all be proud of.

I delivered our vision for 2010 at the last Board meeting which was received well. We will continue to concentrate on the areas that have been our core competencies this year, business planning & analytics, great creative and technical competence of which more later…

…taking over the world

Peter — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:41:36 +0000

Right. Summer break over. Went to a very slick presentation from Google yesterday afternoon. The amount of user data they have is quite scary. It’s no wonder they are…

Everything’s crossed

Peter — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:42:23 +0000

The worst bit. Waiting for a decision. As my wife said to me this morning it is like asking someone out. All that nervous anticipation with a touch of dread.

I feel we did a good pitch and managed to get a sense of us across well. We all came out liking them a lot and wanting to work with them. If I could cross my toes I would!

Old School!!!

Peter — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:34:14 +0000

Apparently I, like Web 2.0, am old school and past it. So say my designers. Apparently we should now be talking about the coming internet.

Really? I thought it was about using the best tools for any job. Whether these happen to be a Blog that allows a company or individual to express opinions, a website to sell or tell people something, a forum that allows people to interact or some careful pre-planning that allows a site and it’s content to be found easily by search engines is not important. What is important is using the right combination of tools for the job. Intelligent Interaction.

And while I’m ranting let’s not forget children (designers) that Social Media isn’t a new phenomenon. Oh no. Interactive forums have been around for years. Facebook etc. just put a pretty face on them.

Check out our Triumph Pitch site if you don’t believe me and take some time to browse the many forums. Old school. Yes please…

From Recruitment to British quirkiness on wheels

Peter — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:04:50 +0000

As you can probably tell from then paucity of posts I have made recently we have been pretty busy of late.

Our new Bentley project has kicked off in earnest, Dunlop Health and Safety is just about to launch and you will soon be powerboating off Gibralter.

As well as existing clients we have several interesting pitches on at the moment and we are all thoroughly caught up in them. Triumph is a fantastic British brand with an amazing worldwide following which you can get a sense of by visiting some of the online forums. We are making use of Social Media to validate our ideas and opinions for the pitch and it is a very interesting and informative process.

We are also working on a pitch for a recruitment company who have a different model to any I have seen before which could be quite ground breaking.

Off to the Ace Cafe on Sunday with the team to meet Triumph bikers. Will have to hide my people carrier around the corner!

Smile while you work

Peter — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:31:38 +0000

As an Australian I have always appreciated the benefits of sunshine to our outlook on life. This weather just makes you happier despite the gloomy economy and our flip flopping MP’s.

It is also makes me happy to look at a busy studio who have a number of interesting signed off projects and some great pitches coming up in June. Perhaps that economic outlook isn’t so gloomy after all or maybe it is being helped by the sunshine.

Juggling those balls

Peter — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:25:54 +0000

Natalia just put the months production schedule on my desk and there aren’t many spare time slots on it which is great news. This week for me is Formula 1, music downloads, business growth and Bentley. Love it.

Bummer!

Peter — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:10:58 +0000

We didn’t get the pitch for the Youth Trust we were going for last week which was pretty gutting for the whole team as it was a lovely project and we’d done some really great work. The client handled it really well and said it was one of those horrible calls where she only had positive things to say, which she knew wasn’t any consolation.

Hey we made it down to the last two from six and it was really close. Well done team and we will learn lessons for our next one.