An amusing clash of cultures over on the Community Forum…

Had an email yesterday from a director of a large digital media agency here in the UK.

Apparently a recruitment firm had got past their telephone receptionist saying they were calling from New Media Age (top industry magazine) and wanted to interview a particular person.

In fact they wanted to interview that person for a job with us apparently.

Now we don’t use that recruitment firm, so why are they arsing about malpracticing and causing potential friction between us and an agency?

Are they so stupid to think that someone won’t cotton on and it might not get blogged about?

Don’t do it! Or next time you’ll be outed!!!!

 

Well there’s just over two weeks till the big day and I’m just about prepared. 11 miles around Central Park in New York last week and 15 miles around Richmond Park here in London on Monday have made tree trunks out of my legs. It’s incredible how the body reacts to training properly.

The 15-miler was hard. I just hadn’t eaten properly that morning having had just a couple of Weetabix before setting off. It took a good 1 1/2 hrs before I started to feel comfortable. Then the heavens opened and it started to snow. I ended up with an inch of snow piled ontop of my head at one point.

I managed to drum up a lot of support to come and watch the big day. I’ve never been to see the London Marathon as I always vowed the 1st time I saw it I’d be in it. Visualising crossing the finishing line is a serene thing, although there’s 26 miles to cover before that.

I’ve run 20 miles before but I was woefully under-trained and it nearly crippled me. I’ve only put in a couple of runs a week and a long run for the last few months. I could have done better but the race being in April means training through the cough and cold season and that ain’t fun.

I’ll let you know how I get on at the weekend. I aim to cover 18 miles and then that’s it!

In the meantime there’s plenty of room for sponsorship!

So far we’ve raised just shy of £2,500 which Microsoft will match so – £5,000 or $10,000 which sounds even better!!!!

Please give what you can here: http://www.justgiving.com/melcarson

Wednesday night saw Microsoft show some of the delegates/speakers from Search Engine Strategies New York 2008 a good time.

It was all to celebrate the launch of our new adCenter Blogs and Forums 

 

The Bus Driver

The Anticipation!

Times Square in the Rain

Jeremiah Andrick – Cindy Krum – Richard Zwicky

David Szetela & Kristjan Mar Hauksson & Partners

Counting Cards

Jill’s Mean Backhander

Warming Up For Karaoke

adCenter411 Incognito

Fabulous Food….

Beautiful people!

Chips Are Down

Tamar Weinberg & Jonathan Hochman

Lady In Blue

JenStar – Lorna – Danny Sullivan

Me Carefully Whispering

Mona Elesseily – Lee Odden

Jason Yormark Wearing Some Billie Jeans

Martin Gilliard

SMO New York – New York

Matt McGowan & Friend

Kevin Ryan & Rory Brown Outside SearchBash

3am – Time for bed!?

Are you saying I can’t splel?