Roome Consulting

Very excited to be joining the guys at Huddersfield University tomorrow for the first “Brilliant Design Lecture”

Exceptional speakers including Nik from POKE, Jay from ex Brooklyn Brothers and other great voices of the industry. Its ramping up to be a wonderful event, really inspirational and hopefully the first of many to come

Eleanor from Roome will be overseeing the “graduate wheel of fortune” and working with the audience and speakers in chairing questions and putting in her ten pence piece in too

So it’s official, online ad spend has overtaken TV. We’ve all been talking about it for what seems like forever but now the day hath come. At the Golden Stiletto Awards last night some innovative examples of advertising in the digital space were out in force, it seems there’s no end to the possibilities for this medium. Now we just need to see an improvement in measurement and digital really will be ready to take over the world.

With our friends working their digital socks off all year to make London Digital Week fabulous , its now here…… Think we were only meant to have one badge but couldnt decide what colour to go for.

What is London Digital Week???????????? Well its a week of conferences, workshops, networking, awards and exhibitions bringing together the digital industries in and around London.

Fun mixed with learning and exploring and the odd sherry……..

Two of our very dear friends Melissa McVeigh and Kathrin Burkhardt will be speaking at this weeks SHE SAYS  . expected to be very very interesting

Hopefully some of you will already have signed up to come along to the 11^th Glug, happening this Thursday 25^th June from 6pm at The Queen of Hoxton. Roome Consulting are very happy to be sponsoring the event by way of bangers and other fine fodder for the BBQ on the roof, and we hope there will be even more random chat and merriment than ever. To add to the fun the Glug boys have invited eight illustrators who’ll be working on the stairwell and roof creating bespoke t-shirts, so bring along a blank to get some free original art-T’s to take home. With that and the special Glug punch on offer, it’s shaping up to be a pretty special evening…

It was very sad when twitter stopped their service, no more sending SMS updates to your phones , BUT , thanks to vodafone, its back…….  We can twitter straight to your mobile.

So for all of you who have been following us since our first twitter in 2006 will have our jobs coming straight into your pocket, how great is that!!!!!!!!!!

tweet tweet away…….

Is it just me but did the latest research reported by NMA that 1 in 7 people are spending up to 5 hours , FIVE HOURS , on social networks seem like a rather long time

FIVE HOURS man FIVE HOURS  ………………….

for the full article you can read it here

Last night the Roome Consulting massive made haste to the ‘big Christmas Glug’ at the Bodhi Gallery on Brick Lane. Thanks to Nick Clement and co for such a marvellous party and big congratulations to Paul Rayment who fought off stiff competition to win the ‘All I Want For Christmas Is…’ competition. Click upsidedownface man to see his winning animation, which we too agree is rather smashing

Roome are wetting their yellow pants with happiness to be sponsoring Brief2008

This semi-serious social event will bring together teams of young planners, account people, designers and creatives from digital or integrated agencies to answer and present back a brief in two hours, probably under the influence of alcohol.

Brief2008 will be held on Thursday 17^th July 2008 at the Design Council on Bow Street, and has the following confirmed judges:

Iain Tait (Founder, Planning/Creative Partner, Poke)

Amelia Torode (Head of VCCP Digital)

Ben Milligan (Head of Planning, Holler)

Richard Knight (Creative Partner/Founder, Mission21)

Rachel Lawlan (Director of Integrated Strategy, DLKW)

This event will be a chance to discover what kind of thinking comes from people from different backgrounds as well as a good excuse to socialise with like-minded keeners.

A few months ago we introduced one of our top freelancers to Amnesty International, with his knowledge of social networking he helped them launch UNSUBSCRIBE

The simple message is “Unite against terrorism. Unite against human rights abuses in the ‘war on terror’.
We did not sign up. We do not approve. We unsubscribe”

New human rights campaign focused on “war on terror”. Lots of social media tools - video widgets, slideshow widgets, buttons, address book importer, email actions, a flickr photo gallery, links to bloggers and social networks - The idea being that ‘good actions are infectious’ so the main navigation is what other people have done or are doing. With 170,000 users already they are aiming for a million, it will only take a second but the potential impact on the “ war on terror” is collasol , if you do one thing to …………………………. unsubscribe

Creative Alchemy Party, Westbourne Studios, Wednesday 14th November, free!

“The Creative Industries party of the year, celebrating Enterprise Week 2007. Join us in our giant interactive networking space, Hungamunga playspace, film, art installations from Artspace, Talkaoke mobile chat show, live painting, and dj’s and performances all night…there will also be a couple of free drinks for the early birds, courtesy of London Westside and the Paddington Development Trust”

This is a party for all creative professional, Download the flyer to get in from their website and if you like - Join the facespace group here.