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There’s not a cloud in the sky, it’s scorching outside, you can see the sunlight streaming through the windows, hear the birds in the sky. What a waste to be sitting in a sweat box of an office when you could be lying with your feet in the grass soaking up the sun? Corona in [...]
Workers accused of theft or damage may soon find themselves on a black list that’s accessible by all potential employers according to a recent BBC article. The National Staff Dismissal Register (NSDR), will allow disgruntled ex-employers to post references online, will go ahead at the end of this month. The article describes the national register as [...]
Tell me if this sounds familar….it’s just your run of the mill Tuesday evening. You go out for dinner with the best of intentions. Before you know it, that one glass of wine you promised yourself turns into two, two turns into three and then like magic it’s three in the morning and you’re knocking [...]
It’s not just Sir Alan Sugar, or ‘The Shug’ as we like to call him, who uses, arguable over-uses, this catch phrase. There’s unfortunate and not-so unfortunate employees up and down the country who face a career change with these immortal words. Fortunately, the Internet provides a way for these newly-made job seekers to share their [...]
It’s not just Sir Alan Sugar, or ‘The Shug’ as we like to call him, who uses, arguable over-uses, this catch phrase. There’s unfortunate and not-so unfortunate employees up and down the country who face a career change with these immortal words. Fortunately, the Internet provides a way for these newly-made job seekers to share their [...]
Chinwag is going on a road trip. Next Tuesday (15th April), we??will??have our??bags packed, (complete with a selection of crisp based snacks and various mixtapes) and will be??piling into a van to drive up to Manchester for Chinwag Live: User Centered Advertising - Chinwag’s first event in Manchester! As online content diversifies, new forms of advertising [...]
Chinwag can be a tricky beast to define at the best of times. Having grown up from an email-based community, the company is evolving alongside and with the help of the community. In February, I was invited to speak at Enhance Media’s annual conference, The Year Ahead in Online Recruitment looking at the lessons learnt, and [...]
The April showers seem to be??echoing the??current turbulance on the??financial front, but is the general economic doom and gloom starting to effect the digital market place? Digital Pulse?? is a new feature from Chinwag that’s designed to provide a monthly confidence index for the digital industry. April’s Digital Pulse is now live and it will be [...]
Chinwag can be a tricky beast to define at the best of times. Having grown up from an email-based community, the company is evolving alongside and with the help of the community. In February, I was invited to speak at Enhance Media’s annual conference, The Year Ahead in Online Recruitment looking at the lessons learnt, and [...]
The April showers seem to be echoing the current turbulance on the financial front, but is the general economic doom and gloom starting to effect the digital market place? Digital Pulse  is a new feature from Chinwag that’s designed to provide a monthly confidence index for the digital industry. April’s Digital Pulse is now live and it will be [...]
Chinwag is going on a road trip. Next Tuesday (15th April), we will have our bags packed, (complete with a selection of crisp based snacks and various mixtapes) and will be piling into a van to drive up to Manchester for Chinwag Live: User Centered Advertising - Chinwag’s first event in Manchester! As online content diversifies, new forms of advertising [...]
By Harry Fowler - Group Digital Recruiter for AMV Group I think we can all agree that the finance markets around the world are not exactly stable at the moment and whatever happens in those markets will have an effect on the digital, advertising and communications sectors. So with that in mind, where does this leave the [...]
By Harry Fowler - Group Digital Recruiter for AMV Group I think we can all agree that the finance markets around the world are not exactly stable at the moment and whatever happens in those markets will have an effect on the digital, advertising and communications sectors. So with that in mind, where does this leave the [...]
Digital Pulse is a new feature from Chinwag that’s designed to provide a monthly confidence index for the digital industry. Each month the results will be analysed to give us an up to date insight into the digital market - to check the pulse of it, if you will we will be able to gauge the ebb and flow of [...]
Digital Pulse is a new feature from Chinwag that’s designed to provide a monthly confidence index for the digital industry. Each month the results will be analysed to give us an up to date insight into the digital market - to check the pulse of it, if you will We will be able to gauge the ebb and flow of  [...]
A recent piece of research by Bristol based Recruitment Consultancy Just Adlib has probed into our happiness levels at work with illuminating results. An interesting read, the research was conducted by people living in the west of England and working in the Digital, Marketing, Advertising and Creative Industries. Just Adlib found that, 37% of participants said [...]
By Harry Fowler - Group Digital Recruiter for AMV Group. Since 3GSM has recently finished in Barcelona and I never made it, again, I thought I’d give you my user experience on mobile recently. It’s taken a while, but eventually Orange and T-Mobile are finally getting round to it. Recently I signed up for Sky Sports TV via [...]
A recent piece of research by Bristol based Recruitment Consultancy Just Adlib has probed into our happiness levels at work with illuminating results. An interesting read, the research was conducted by people living in the west of England and working in the Digital, Marketing, Advertising and Creative Industries.
Since 3GSM has recently finished in Barcelona and I never made it, again, I thought I’d give you my user experience on mobile recently. It’s taken a while, but eventually Orange and T-Mobile are finally getting round to it. Recently I signed up for Sky Sports TV via my N95 whilst I was sitting on a train heading [...]
By Harry Fowler - Group Digital Recruiter for AMV Group. ??Thanks to all who made it to the??discussion??last Tuesday (29th Jan) - the above title may give those of you who didn’t make it a wee taster. ??Ok, moving forward. I was recently on a panel at the Deloitte Fast 500 which recognizes Telecoms, Media and Technology companies [...]