BBC article

Intersting article:

Will facebook become the new school tie?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5109160.stm

Facebook in business

Something that I learned today from the networking that is related to my research project is the use of social software within business.

I met a guy who uses facebook as a networking tool. Within hours of leaving the event yesterday, I had a friend request from one of the guys we 'networked' with. We saw him again today and he said it is an effective way of keeping in touch in business.

This will appear in my evaluation of my research project.

Thirst for life brainstorm!

Having received the brief and other documents for Thirst for Life Stings, we sat down and conceptualised ideas, storyboarded and did some paperwork. We did it at James' home and it was so nice to sit in the countryside, in the silence, chill out with tea in a different setting.

We realised it was going to be tough to the amount of stings but will be so satisfying once done.

Business Days

Compound has just taken almost 2 days away from official work to learn how to be a business! The business side of compound is defiantly the weakest aspect of the company and it has been an interesting two days. We attended flying start, a day of networking in learning run by the government, inspiring entrepreneurs. It was a great day and we all learnt a lot.

Joanne and I also attended the Thirsty Thursday event run jointly by Notts Uni and Trent and is a similar event of networking. They also had two presentations from two science based newly established companies.

Success!

Thirst for life brief aquired

Thirst for life: www.thirstforlife.org is an awareness campaign for alcohol in Britain and challenges people of all age, everywhere to go for 40 days without booze! The campaign which is due to draw thousands of people starts on Wednesday and there are a few of us joining in off our course and from Church!!!

The prospect of no alcohol is a big thing and shows how worthy the cause is and Jo (compound) felt strongly enough to create some new stings for the campaign. So we wrote to them and pitched our proposal. So look out on next year's campaign for the compound stings. Story boarding starts on Wednesday!

Progress Report

So here is what is going on in my working life at the moment!

Work continues on /thoughts spring - This is the first issue to have made a profit, Alleluia!!
I have around 6 pages left to design and then it will be almost ready to print, artwork deadline is the 18th of March!

I am also very busy with the planning of Easter People but guests are very enthusiastic about attending which makes my life easier!

Milk07 gets more and more stressful everyday but having talked to my flatmates about their similar issues with their product design exhibition, we don't seem to be the only ones battling to put on a decent show!! However, an email was sent cancelling all lectures and seminars! We quickly sent an email too, countering this decision in order to get some stuff done and sell some tickets. Fundraising seems to be going well, but with a lack of hours that we can put in, corperate sponsorship is very difficult. We are hoping to get a quiz sold to everyone very soon!

The pace of the client project has accelerated!! We filmed and edited our E4/esting competition entry this weekend. Despite the equipment we had being terrible, we love the idea and are happy with the result. Watch this space for the entry, it should be up after March 10th. I am working on a 3D of a local bar, Jo has finished our Audio project and James will be concentating on Thirst for Life stings.

There is a deadline tomorrow, requiring us to submit a CV in order for lecturers to look at and give feedback on. I will post the CV as soon as it's ready!

Update!

I am aware that I have neglected this space a little recently but I would like to assure you that this is due to the large amount of work and not that there is so little that I have nothing to say about it.

In the last two weeks there has been a lot of progress with Milk07, the exhibition at the end of the year, and feedback meetings with client and research projects. I will be writing an article in the Spring edition of the magazine as part of the conclusion to the project.

We had a group meeting with compound the other evening over a bag of chips. It has been decided that channel4/estings was being put to one side for the moment while James concentrates on re-editing fly for the De:pict competition, Jo will be editing a bungee video, creating documentation and starting an audio project for an animation. I will be working on the 3D visual of part of the student's union.

The next magazine has also been started and I am very busy with organising the creative worship venue at a major UK Christian conference.

See you soon!

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