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

Where: Getty Gallery
46 Eastcastle St, W1W 8DX
When: Thursday, 29th October, 7-10pm

OCTOBER EVENT | GETTY IMAGES PRESENTS THE 2ND ANNUAL GOLDEN STILETTO AWARDS
While there are plenty of creative awards out there, the Golden Stilettos stand alone as the only awards to celebrate the best of women’s creativity in the industry.

With a distinguished array of female judges, some great prizes and the first ever wearable award, we hope to inspire more women to kick up their heels and join is in digital!

Please RSVP to shesays.uk@gmail.com so we know how many to expect http://www.shesays.org.uk/missing-out.aspx

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

I have to say this made me chuckle, I know it shouldnt, but it did!!!!!!!! what can I say sense of humour of a child!

Asked whether he used Twitter, Mr Cameron (thats Dave to many conservative party members)  said: “The trouble with Twitter, the instantness of it - too many twits might make a twat.”

See it here

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

For those of you struggling to find the time to design or update your portfolio I thought this might be of interest.

Steve Pearce (Creative Director at Skype) just introduced me to this site Krop - Creative Database and its such a brilliant offering. Somewhere that you can be saved the hours of sitting around doodling wondering the what the best way is to display all your brilliant work.

You post your work and they beautifully put it together.

I re-read the Dr Seuss book over weekend “Oh the places you’ll go” and thought I would share its first lines, as for many, times are quite difficult I thought this would send a little cheer. If you’re not a great Dr Seuss fan and would like some more detailed advice in the digital media job market then do give me a call, or drop me an email eleanor@roome.co.uk

Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You’re on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

If you would like to read more then his book is available, well its pretty much available anywhere, I first read it in JAPAN!!!!!

Brand Republic have an interesting article this week with some encouraging stats for those of us who work in the digital media market and have an eye on the economy

Online adspend up 21% while total ad market falls

by Jacquie Bowser, Brand Republic 07-Oct-08, 09:00

LONDON - Internet advertising expenditure grew 21% year on year in the first half of 2008 to £1.7bn as the total ad market fell by 0.7%, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau.

 If you have a spare two seconds its an interesting read, not just the article but the comments too

Thanks to the entertaining website that is College Humour - We get to see this lovely montage of the Man who took a photograph of himslef everyday for 17 years from the age of 31, aparantly until he got a girlfriend!! Interesting to see, says a lot about this guys life! Lovely Jazzy accompanies it too :D

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1830530

Enjoy