Pickle Jar Communications

It was definitely coming, wasn’t it? Prezi (www.prezi.com) had to be one of my Friday favorites sooner or later. Those who know me know that this is by far one of my favorite ‘tech’ tools and one that I think has really helped to make me stand out as a speaker at conferences. Okay, it’s [...]

I wasn’t always a ‘consultant’. And even to this day it’s a word that sits uneasy with me. At last week’s CASE Europe Annual Conference I found myself sat in the main opening session next to a young lady who had never met or heard of me before. And the usual opening question came fast: [...]

I’m leading a workshop in Portugal next week at the EUPRIO annual conference on the theme of how social media is impacting on the role of the PR professional. The fact that I’m going to be using the conference facebook group to ask this question of delegates before the conference, and using twitter to ask [...]

I wouldn’t ordinarily post a press release here as it isn’t the most appropriate format for a blog. However, as we are sponsoring the Birmingham Twestival, I thought I’d indulge myself a little and include the press release here: BIRMINGHAM TO JOIN 100 CITIES ACROSS THE WORLD IN FUNDRAISING ‘TWESTIVAL‘ On February 12th 2009 Birmingham [...]

We’re delighted to announce that we launched our new website this week. As with any successful website, we aim for it to be an ever evolving project, but we’re happy with the results so far. New features include a Twitter feed (anyone reading this blog for a while will know what a big fan I [...]

I recently received the photographs from the Fast Forward challenge final that I managed on behalf of Ideas for Life TV. Just because I’m proud of the teams that took part and proud of pulling this series together, I thought I’d share the picture of the winning team from Woodway Park School along with the [...]

Do ‘patients’ exist any more in the UK health and social care sector? I’ve been out of the office for most of this week working on a video project for the health, social and child care sector and not one of the people working in health care were allowed to refer to the people that [...]

As part of the work we’ve been doing for Ideas for Life TV, we were recently involved in a conference on digital media for business hosted at Alton Towers (18 March). Working with Ember Regis, we interviewed the key speakers from the event. Two of them were specifically speaking about how digital media can be [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]