Posted on April 9th, 2010 by Matt Taylor
Imagine you’re on the train home from work one evening and sitting opposite you are two people embroiled in a lengthy conversation about a recently published book they are both enjoying. You try not to listen but can’t help overhearing their enthusiastic comments about characters and plot lines. Out of curiosity, you glance at the [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2010 by Matt Taylor
A lunch for Birmingham’s MIPIM contingent at the Restaurant Mandala on the beach was oversubscribed.
CBRE’s Ashley Hancox emerged from a ten hour “power nap” especially – he went to his hotel on Wednesday night for 40 winks and failed to wake up until Thursday morning. Must be the Lee Evans-look-alike’s new job, as regional head [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2010 by Matt Taylor
My day started on a serious note, with a heavyweight European Investment Briefing from the boys at CB Richard Ellis.
The very polished Nick Axford, head of the firm’s EMEA research team, said there is cause for optimism, as the investment market is picking up.
Apparently, retail property is being highly sought after across Europe, with shopping [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2010 by Dawn_Roberts
The plane to Nice yesterday morning was packed with lots of male, middle-aged men. For a minute I thought I was on the wrong flight: a try-before-you-buy timeshare trip, or a Saga golfing holiday charter perhaps.
But no, as Gary Taylor of Argent helpfully pointed out, here on BMI Baby Flight WW6529 was the great and good [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2009 by Matt Taylor
With the BBC’s introduction of a position for a social media editor it would appear that digital news distribution and online networking has finally ‘arrived’.
But in fact the BBC has been rather slow off the mark and most broadcasters and traditional press have already appointed designated social media boffins.
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Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by Matt Taylor
It was as easy as ABC for social media sites to start spreading news of Michael Jackson’s death last week.
Unfettered by the conventions of the established media, rumours of the star’s death began emanating across the social media spectrum within minutes of his actual passing.
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