This week, I claimed that companies like ours are the agencies of the future but somebody put me in my place by pointing out that 1000heads is a child of the last century. Day to day work normally gets in the way of reflection, but this made me pause for thought and consider the journey [...]
Waterstone’s was founded by Tim Waterstone. It’s his chain. Hence the possessive apostrophe that indicates ownership. To remove it is to remove ownership (OK, he doesn’t own it anymore, but you know what I’m getting at). To remove it is an affront to the English Language. To remove it is to offend everyone who has ever [...]
If you want to know how to have good conversations as a business, learn how to be a good conversationalist in your personal life. Business ‘conversations’ no longer require special weird PR speak. They do not need you to suspiciously hoard and drip-feed information, or create an elaborate mail-out, or identify a problem or issue [...]
We’re wrapping things up here at 1000heads HQ [both literally and figuratively] as we prepare to head off for a much-earned festive break. Our Custom Crackers are in the post, the mince pies are in the oven and it’s time to close up shop until the New Year. What with some staggering work behind us [...]
At least, in London anyway… Via Kenya Allmond We haven’t done one of these for a while but today is our company away day. It’s been quite the year so far in 2011; what with many, many new client wins (more to come on this very soon), an amazing expansion plan (new offices, new staff) [...]
If you’re still unfamiliar with all things Google Plus – aka Google+ – then don’t worry, you’re not alone and, at the moment at least, it’s no big deal. However, now would be a really good time to start reading up (our write up from July might be a good place to start). Why? Well, [...]
We have an ‘open door’ blogging policy for all staff here at 1000heads and today’s post is from Senior Strategy Executive, Ben Fox, he’s a talented chap and had this to say about a recent not-exactly-social retail experience – JW Like many twenty-something males in the UK, I’ve always looked to Topman for fashion inspiration. [...]
Yesterday, Facebook announced some fairly major changes to its Pages Insights product. The ‘People Talking About’ feature is a major step forward and attempts to value brand engagement in a more meaningful way than a mere ‘Like this’. Facebook’s defining this new feature as stories people create about brand pages and could take the form [...]
Three different subjects, all intrinsically linked in a multitude of ways. However, today I wanted to share with you three slideshare presentations covering off each of these subjects in various forms. If you’re a grade one newbie or a seasoned master in any of the above areas, these slides will be of use to you. [...]
A couple of weeks ago now, one of Turkey’s leading social media sites, SosyalMedya.co, reached out to 1000heads for some opinion and insight about the amazing growth the area has seen over the past year. The full item can be read [in Turkish!] on their site, however, Fulya Çimen, content strategist at SosyalMedya.co has kindly [...]
