Twestival 2011

So now it’s official.

Twestival 2011 will be a ‘Twestival Local’ - benefiting smaller, locally chosen charities.

A good place for charities wanting to be considered is to go to the Twestival site and register to be kept in touch. And similarly for volunteers who want to be involved this time.

Standards keep getting higher all the time, so the next one should be awesome!

Claire Thompson, Freelance PR Consultant, Waves PR (co-ordinator for Twestival in the UK)

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World Cup Fever

Rio Ferdinand supporting 1Goal

Claire Thompson, Freelance PR Consultant, Waves PR

Here we go, here we go, here we go…

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.

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Bring it on!

Claire Thompson, Freelance PR Consultant, Waves PR

So, my Twestival organisers challenge is to have wet sponges thrown at me.

You can buy a sponge here: http://www.amiando.com/Twestival2010_UK.html

Clever geek Dan Benton has created a catapult: http://uk.twestival.com/2010/03/22/coordinator-challenge-claire’s-in-the-stocks/

And this Sunday (April 28) afternoon, for a period of one hour only,  he’s rigging up the cameras and the catapult so that a sponge can be automatically flung for each pound donated, and, broadband connections and weather permitting, the donors name will appear across the bottom of the screen as the sponge goes flying.

Below is a video of the practise run.  It has to be worth a pound, surely!

Getting soggy for Twestival from claire thompson on Vimeo.

Please note that this was delayed from Thursday because Dan has a new job (congratulations Dan!) and I was at the House dontcha know! And funnily enough, Thursday was quite a busy day…

Twestival UK

Claire Thompson, Freelance PR Consultant, Waves PR

Loving, loving, loving this video produced in Cornwall covering some of the UK Twestivals. Especially as the backing track is from Sophie Stokes who played at the last Twestival in Cornwall and has the most amazing voice.