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Happy holidays

It’s the holiday summer season so we asked the #TeamDTW about their best & worst holidays, top travel tips and why we don’t miss the soggy camping trips of their youth. When it comes to favourite destinations, most of the DTW gang take the Pet Shop Boys advice and Go West. Yosemite National Park, Barbados, Florida and California are the most popular choices although MD Chris rates Australia as his favourite destination, while designer Sarah Bibby loved Skiathos in Greece. Not every holiday is a great one though. MD Chris had an interesting time skiing in communist Romania, while Social

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Life Through a Lens – Google Glass arrives at DTW

DTW Digital and Social Media Manager Guy Bailey takes us through the Looking Glass… I’m a gadget guy. Always have been, a child of the ZX Spectrum generation, I measured my own and humanity’s progress based on access to the latest advances and cool devices. For most people growing up in the eighties, Tomorrow’s World was the annoying, swotty buffer between Top of the Pops and The Young Ones while for me it was a catalogue from the future. One family in every neighbourhood was always the first to have a Walkman, or a Diskman, or the latest Brevill Sandwich

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The future’s so bright, I gotta wear Glass

We’ve just joined the Google Glass Explorer programme. Now I’m guessing most people reading this are either thinking “The what?” or “That’s cool.” If it’s the latter you’re right. Not only is it cool but its simple to use and is already adding value to the way we work with our clients. If you don’t know what Google Glass is you can find out straight from the Google itself, but basically it looks like a pair of glasses but it’s a computer with a tiny screen (and a built-in high quality video-camera) just inches from your eye that you can

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World Cup Fever!

World Cup Fever is in full flow at DTW and while we haven’t been laid low yet, even the non-football lovers in the office are definitely looking a bit peaky. Early World Cup memories trend towards the iconic rather than the mundane – Account Manager Chris Sealey watching the acrobatic Hugo Sanchez scoring a trademark bicycle kick for Mexico in the 1986 competition; Director Pete Whelan remembers David Platt’s injury time swivel volley against Belgium in 1990 while MD Chris Taylor and Social Media Manager Guy Bailey had just opened their bottles of American cream soda when Bryan Robson put

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#CIPRNC14 – data, content and the PR journey

Happy lunchtime – it’s been a cracking morning at the CIPR’s 2014 Northern Conference over in Manchester. Joanna Halton from McCann has just kicked off by reminding the room of PR people that it is our job to create the content and tell the stories that engage and enthuse people. Couldn’t agree more – the PR industry, ably being led by @wadds who delivered this morning’s intro session with a sterling vision for the future of the industry – Mr. Peston take note – is in a great position to lead the way for brands, organisations and communities when it comes to telling and

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Infographic on social media posting 'dead zones' showing the worst times to post on each social platform

Apples and Oranges

When you work in an emerging industry such as social media, it can be hard to keep up with industry standard knowledge and accepted practice. Not just because its practitioners in the main are young, inquisitive and exactly the sort of people who will be challenging the status quo but also because it is so new itself. In PR, you can argue about certain tactics but general strategy is more or less fixed because everybody understands what billboards, newspapers and news bulletins are and what they do. In Social Media, you could be forgiven for thinking that it’s the equivalent

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Photo of Australian beach and turquoise ocean

Happy holidays

It’s the holiday summer season so we asked the #TeamDTW about their best & worst holidays, top travel tips and why we don’t miss the soggy camping trips of their

Read More
Scoring a goal in football

World Cup Fever!

World Cup Fever is in full flow at DTW and while we haven’t been laid low yet, even the non-football lovers in the office are definitely looking a bit peaky.

Read More
Infographic on social media posting 'dead zones' showing the worst times to post on each social platform

Apples and Oranges

When you work in an emerging industry such as social media, it can be hard to keep up with industry standard knowledge and accepted practice. Not just because its practitioners

Read More
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