Life and pondering the merits of a NO REFUND CULTURE
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Modern living: Love of on and off line words back in a heavy puff of smoke
April 13, 2010 - 11:34 pm
Tags: Simple Things, Social Media
Posted in Modern living | 4 comments
After more than three months of not blogging (which did include four weeks of holiday) I am back tending my weblog.
So why the absence?
Well I had to make a conscious decision over the Christmas holiday to take enforced leave from social media engagement (especially about getting my pants in too tight a virtual bunch about [...]
Grumped: Restaurants with filthy loos (Browns, Islington)
December 22, 2009 - 8:26 am
Tags: food, POOR SERVICE
Posted in Grumped | 1 comment
(SEE UPDATE FROM 28 DECEMBER BELOW) On Sunday night we meet up with friends on Upper Street in Islington. We hadn’t booked a restaurant and as we drove across town (running half an hour late) we decided to go to Browns Restaurant (everyone knew where it was).
Had a fun time catching up in the pleasant [...]
Modern living: Give me a wave
December 20, 2009 - 10:31 am
Tags: google wave, Social Media
Posted in Modern living | 5 comments
I have just been having a little play with Google Wave and it looks super fun.
My gmail is neilphilipcrump@gmail.com – so add me to your contacts and invite me to a wave – desperate to try it out with lots of people on it at the same time – the video demos make it look [...]
Omniumgatherum: December and all things Christmas
December 19, 2009 - 10:32 am
Tags: food, GREAT SERVICE, YouTube
Posted in Omniumgatherum | 1 comment
As I hit ‘publish’ on my last post I realised that this it was my first of December – poor form Mr Crump. The reason for this being that this month has been ridiculously busy both at work and at play. I have literally not had an time to tap away on a keyboard the [...]
Sensible(ish) post: The media’s appetite for the masses
December 19, 2009 - 9:11 am
Tags: Social Media
Posted in Sensible(ish) post | No comments
My most recent company (Aurora) blog post muses the challenge of getting the mass media to report about health issues that affect the minority. The post is Oliver Twist themed: Please sir, I want some more…
Modern living: That dreaded festive question …
November 29, 2009 - 10:27 pm
Tags: Fun
Posted in Modern living | No comments
Yes folks – it is that time of year when I get asked the question: ‘what do you want for Christmas?’
I hate that question because the trouble is that I never know what I want (I basically don’t need anything).
Anyhow over the weekend my brother wanged on about a website called Firebox and so I [...]
Loved stuff: Su-Bo is just amazing
November 27, 2009 - 8:45 pm
Tags: music
Posted in Loved stuff | No comments
I have downloaded Susan Boyle’s new album. It is stunning. I am getting Streisand-like goose bumps just listening to it. Wild Horses, her first single, makes me well up with tears every time I hear it. Her voice is absolutely beautiful: totally, overwhelmingly stunning. I know I am gushing but it is fabulous.
Apparently the album [...]
Modern living: iPhone therefore iBore
November 21, 2009 - 9:56 am
Tags: apple, iphone
Posted in Modern living | 2 comments
My business partner (Claire) has a problem. She is sandwiched between two brand new iPhone lovers (me at work and her partner at home) and she is not enjoying the experience. Her partner’s iPhone joy was in fact my tipping point moment when I decided that I wanted one.
The other night while at dinner with some friends she [...]
No refund culture: Glass half full with a dash of Felicia
November 20, 2009 - 7:52 am
Tags: GREAT SERVICE
Posted in No Refund Culture | 1 comment
This week I had some really great service…
On Wednesday I had to catch a train with some of the team to go off to a client meeting. I had booked my tickets on thetrainline.com in order to get a discount (up to 43 percent folks – so worth doing). At most stations there are booths [...]
Modern living: Times they are achangin’
November 18, 2009 - 9:30 pm
Tags: Social Media
Posted in Modern living | 6 comments
I had a discussion today with about 10 other healthcare communications folk. I asked them about their social media use – pretty much all of them had a:
LinkedIn profile and some were actively engaging in group discussion
Facebook profile (no one admitted to playing one of those annoying farming games!)
Twitter account and were actively tweeting and retweeting
Google reader and actively [...]
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