After much consideration, I decided against keeping my London phone number. It gave me access to lovely offices, but I used the conference room once in the last six months, which was hardly over-use, and as it really represented a message taking service, it wasn’t responsive enough for people on deadlines.
There may yet be a better solution out there, but, for the moment at least, Claire Thompson/Waves PR is contactable on +44 (0) 118 944 0394.
All other contact details remain unchanged. Do give me a call!
Nope – this isn’t a post about how technology has brought us the World Cup, but how technologists are reacting – in England at least.
A friend of mine, Katrina, works with the ITJobBoard, which ran a survey amongst IT professionals about the World Cup.
I had a giggle when I read it. Only 21 percent of respondents said their employers had put plans in place to enable them to watch key games during working hours. (15 percent also thought their companies were stricter this year than for the previous World Cup in 2006 - unsurprising in so many ways – the fever was crazy and it was almost impossible to get any work done!)
But ask the employers and 80 percent were offering flexible hours. It was a fair sized sample as well. Maybe people don’t know their employers have this option – they have an hour to find out!
Only 14% of IT folk had prebooked time off, and only 8% were planning sickies. But hold on – 8 plus 14 is 22, so that’s 22% of folk planning to take the time – one in five IT workers by my calculations.
So there you have it – one in five IT workers won’t be at their desks. And given that today is the first England match that this can be tested at, and this was just what they were prepared to confess to, better hope you don’t need the IT department this afternoon.
Great video from The Difference Engine which is one of a series but for me captures what this project is all about: giving exciting startups a leg up with the space, finance and expertise to give them the best chance of success.
I met them earlier in the year, and was impressed. In this video, they talk about the difference that’s been made.
Just one thing though: whatever possessed them to allow Paul’s picture to be the opening image…?
World Cup Fever has already started. The jokes are flying, and scarcely an hour goes by without a World Cup/England supporters joke passing on of my many ‘in’ boxes.
For PR consultants, it’s a double edged sword – for print media, and to some extent broadcast, scarcely a news story will be published unless it has some link, somewhere to the World Cup/England’s chances. Even the most tenuous of links will go further than anything without the ‘WC’ mention. Not until England’s chances are thwarted will normal service resume.
Press meetings and conferences will all be carefully times to avoid clashes. Branded goods will be punted and in scarce supply – until that is, England is no longer competing, at which point any World Cup story will find itself spiked quicker than a news story about paperclips in new colours.
just because I can! | claireatwaves | 
July 19, 2010 4:20 pm | 
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