15th Dec 2007
London and me
London is street for street my favourite city in the world.
Spent most of Thursday and Friday there meeting clients and attending Weber Shandwick’s quarterly UK and Ireland Leadership meeting. This eclectic group runs some of the most successful and interesting communications businesses on these islands. Everything thing from hard core Public Affairs, Corporate and Financial Communications to one of the biggest consumer teams around. And flanking the London battalions is the strongest regional network on these islands as well as a series of specialist practices which are right at the cutting edge. SLAM is already redefining youth marketing and our broadcast and social and emerging media teams are pushing the boundaries of what is better known and digital communications. We are also ahead of the curve on multicultural communications. I can see opportunities for this product here in Ireland soon given our fast growing and increasingly affluent immigrant population.
With carbon offsetting and sustainability increasingly on the business agenda Planet2050 has become well established in a very short space of time as the place to go if you need serious advice about corporate responsibility. And there are bloggers in our midst. Check out the following to get inside a group that lives 21st century communications. ByrneBabyByrne, JamesWarren, Prop-arazzi, MayDayMayDayMayDay or WordofMoss.
So a good meeting but the icing on the cake was playing Lastminute.com for all its worth. I’ve become quite adept at shopping for a hotel room using them. This week I took a punt on the ’secret deal’ and got myself into the Hilton Park Lane for the price of a modest three star room. Eighteen floors up and with views east to Westminster, the London Eye and the City….. Not the worst wake up vista in the world.
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