On winning awards

I was delighted to read that the Guardian student media awards are to have a broadcast category once again. It’s a little reported fact that there always used to be one. I know, as I won it in 1981 with a programme I’d made for University Radio York. It always struck me as odd when

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Posted on 11 June 2007

Princess Diana, Channel 4, and user-generated content

This week’s fascinating documentary about the role (or lack of it) of the paparazzi in Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed’s deaths may have been painful for their families, but it didn’t deserve some of the more hysterical reactions in the press. More interesting was the fact that it seems to have split the TV industry

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Posted on 08 June 2007

When simple simply confuses

I spent a fun day at the CIPD annual exhibition last week, helping out the lovely people at Unlimited Potential, a coaching and training company I’m associated with. One of the reasons the exhibition was so successful for Unlimited Potential was the consistency of the brand message – from the images and wording on the

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Posted on 28 April 2007

In the Beginning

Coming soon…musings on running a small business, the media and why trainers use so much Blutack.

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Posted on 23 March 2007