Have you heard about the Linked In group for London members? It’s getting a lot of attention from members and plenty of discussions have been springing up daily, so it’s well worth a look.
The group is an online addition to the popular Meet with Drinks networking events that take place every month across the capital. So now, you can keep in touch between events and start topical discussions with like-minded marketers.
Zoe Gell
Hello again from sunny Brisbane. It’s been all go here – dust storms for starters!! It was like the Sahara here for a while….
I have to say I am actually missing the cooler London weather, the heat here is starting to really drive me crazy and my husband has been consulting numerous air conditioning companies to sort some out for our house – but as of yet can’t decide which to go for, so in the mean time I am frying like a proper English breakfast!
So last time I was telling you how I had packed up, left my lovely marcomms job and moved my life down under to Brisbane. I thought it would be so easy to breeze into a new marketing job but as I soon discovered I couldn’t have arrived at a worse time.
The recruitment consultancy I registered with at the time said had I arrived six months earlier I would have been fighting off employers with a stick! Read on…
From Zoe Gell
I’m in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. How on earth did that happen?
I was very happy living and and working in London. Then I met my blonde-haired blue-eyed, sweep-me-off-my feet guy! He just happened to be Australian and he took me to Norway and proposed with a nice sparkly ring. We’ve been married for nearly three years! Read on…
Facebook. LinkedIn. Flickr, Twitter, blogs. The list goes on. Sometimes, it seems like social networks are taking over the world. And, let’s face it, people enjoy using them. Facebook has 200 million users – more members than some countries have people. Social networks give people a chance to communicate, share ideas, state preference and also do a lot of silly things like find out what great dictator they most resemble. Read on…
Philip Preston
Six months ago I left my job in publishing to become The Institute’s new Regional Director for Greater London and the East of England.
It’s a great job with the added advantage that I now work from home. I have everything I need in my home office including a Dilbert desk calendar, a state-of-the-art staple remover and a record player so that I can play my old LPs as I work. Read on…