Adventures in video
I made this video as an entry for the New MR Virtual Festival, which takes place later this week. The task: make a video less than three minutes long that makes a case for working in market research. Here’s the video. I, er, have always longed to make a pretentious music video. That may show. In the end, I had to be torn away from the software and am now eyeing the Pro licence thoughtfully. Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com. I used a series of images from Flickr photographers, under Creative Commons share/attribution licences. Here are the photographers whose...
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I gave a brief presentation at the 2010 Science Communication conference yesterday, talking about the work that I did with the Sanger Institute on professional development in science communication. You can download the report here. The very concept of a framework was quite worrying to some people, for all sorts of reasons. In bureaucratic-leaning organisations, things on paper can often take on a life of their own. Personally I like frameworks because they help organise my thinking, but they shouldn’t stand alone. They are not the Thing Itself, they are support for the Thing....
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Some of us find it quite simple to put our real organisations and authentic selves online.
Others - well, let's just say that some of us can't bear to look at our own websites.
My mission is to help you transform your online presence so that other people understand and appreciate what you really have to offer. So that you can achieve what you want - whether that's better engagement, more readers, or more sales.