Redeveloping your website can make you slim!!!

Well it can if it gets nominated for an Investor Relations Society Award!  VT Group has been shortlisted for the most improved website, thanks to my pals at Investis, which means going to the awards dinner in November, which means dusting off the ole’ DJ (dinner jacket – not disk jockey), which unfortunately has a habit of shrinking when not used for a few months.

Which subsequently means I’d better lay off the pies over the forthcoming weeks.  I never put that benefit in the business case!!!

Seriously though, big thanks to everyone that helped with the new website.  It’s a vast improvment on the old one.  I’ll elaborate why in a future post.  Thanks to Corporate Eye for picking up on the awards also.

All we’ve got to do now is keep our fingers crossed (and pies untouched)

Vintage classic

Vintage classic

Originally uploaded by thewisebunny

Picture of a well-maintained and much-loved vintage classic

…Oh, and chitty chitty bang bang!

Taken at bealieu motor museum, which has a cracking medieval hall, which is great for any archaically themed conferences that you may be thinking about.

Really nice people too.  V. imortant for us sensitive event organising types!

look at me – bloggin’ whilst joggin’

Well, not really, but this post is coming from my blackberry, so I could be jogging.

If I really wanted to!

How to shoot your boss

One of the perils of the cheapskate marketeer is shooting video.  On the one hand, you want to create a professional video, on the other, you can’t bare ‘wasting’ your hard-won budget on agencies and production houses.

Nowhere is this more fretful, than when you need to do an interview – especially if that someone is a bigwig, either from inside your organisation or a customer.  You can’t afford to get it wrong, as your mistakes will become apparant either when you ask for some more time in their diary, or when they see the finished product.

Getting help

The best bet is to get help.  Depending on how much I’ve got to spend, I’ll either outsource the whole lot, or try and do a few bits myself.  I’ll give a few useful contacts (cameramen, soundy’s, editors) in a future post (shout if you want sooner), but in the meantime, attached is a few useful pointers for interviewing people: how-to-interview