Excuse the blatant self-promotion, but this week Wolfstar, the consultancy where I work, has been named the national Outstanding Small Agency of the Year by the CIPR. We won the gold award at the regional heats back in November, and we’ve now won the national award.
This is great news and I’m really proud to be part of the team. Hopefully this is only the start and we’ll go on to even bigger and better things in the future. I’ve been working at Wolfstar for just over two months, so I’m still relatively new, but definitely feel like part of the team!
I recently accompanied Stuart to the Don’t Panic Guide to Social Media conference in Manchester - I should have blogged about it sooner but things have been very hectic running up to Christmas.
The conference was great and I really enjoyed hearing about social media being used so diversely, by everyone from councils and police forces, to consumer agencies and big brands like Microsoft. It was good to see examples of social media in practice. As I’m quite new to this area of PR, a lot of what I learn is from books, the internet, my colleagues and existing blog posts. The speakers at the conference really put social media into context and inspired me about how it can be used in a unique and impactful way.
As I now know is good blogger practice, I’d better big a few people up…. Speakers who stood out for me were Tom Murphy from Microsoft, Stephen Davies at 3W PR, Meg Pickard from the guardian.co.uk, Mark Payne from West Midland Police and Marshall Manson from Edelman. All very different, but all entertaining and extremely informative!
Anyway, that’s all for now. It’s our work Christmas party tomorrow (double celebrations after picking up the award) so I may have some interesting tid bits to blog about in early 2009!
Also, if you want a sneaky peek of our Christmas video, click here.
Happy Christmas!