Pickle Jar Communications

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Pickle Jar Communications was contracted earlier this year by WMG at the University of Warwick to oversee the production of a video promoting the successes of the various projects within the Premium Automotive Research and Development (PARD) programme. We worked with @Warblefly Productions, Eight Eyed Sea Bass and Mustard Design to co-ordinate the final package [...]

It’s all about the kids today. What are they doing online? How can we make the web and video games safer? The launch of the report of the Byron Review is of course welcomed by most people – parents in particular, I suspect. The report itself acknowledges that “headlines have contributed to the climate of [...]

The BBC reported this week that Liverpool John Moore’s University (LJMU) is hosting an open day for prospective students in Second Life. I have been involved in a number of conversations over the past couple of years with colleagues throughout the HE sector about hosting open days in Second Life. If truth be told, it’s [...]

A lot of my work is around communicating science, or working with education bodies. So, every year I am interested to see how certain professions fare in MORI’s annual survey of trust in different professions. Catching up on reading my backlog of publications that have fallen on my desk over the past few weeks, I [...]

I just have to say that the BBC have done it again and created a really wonderful, very usable, new homepage for their website. I adore the features like the radio links on the right-hand side, the clock at the top and more news on the homepage. With the iPlayer link at the bottom and [...]

Tomorrow we’re holding the final of the Fast Forward series for Ideas for Life TV. Not only have I been production manager for this project, but I have also had to be event manager too pulling together all the various strands to make it work. I have to say, I’m feeling quite sad that it [...]

So, here is a dilemma that has been rife in the press recently. Supposedly journalists are dipping into individual’s profiles on social networking sites like facebook, MySpace and Bebo to find out more about them for stories they are developing. I’m ever so slightly surprised that this has caused such an outcry, in truth. I [...]