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Marvin Humes will be gracing the stage at the CCA Gala Dinner and Excellence Awards Ceremony in Glasgow on 25th April 2024!
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It is a sobering fact that fewer than 10% of New Year resolutions are kept for the entire year. In fact most are actually ‘toast’ by Valentine’s Day according to the USA publication Money Matters. It remains to be seen whether Mark ...
As we enter a new and exciting year many of us will have ambitions and resolutions both personally and professionally. We are really excited to be working with you in the year ahead and I would like to share a short poem which sums up these se...
Boxing Day for most of us is the calm after the storm of Christmas frenzy; but of course lots of us are working hard to keep the wheels of service turning. The name itself originates from the ‘boxes’ of gifts and bonuses given to trades ...
Google’s much awaited tally of the year’s clicks was revealed this week as it has, for the first time, released a city-by-city breakdown of the most popular 'how to' terms entered into its search engine. In London, Glasgow, Brighton a...
For the first time ever, a woman has been named to FIFA’s shortlist for the Puskás Award for scoring the best goal of the year. Stephanie Roche plays soccer for the French professional team ASPTT Albi, and she's also a member of Irelan...
The nostalgia of the twelve days of Christmas seems to have been replaced by the stampede of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Many of us will have viewed the footage of shoppers scrambling to get their hands on merchandise with big brand retailers John...
There are just two words to sum up the emotion of this past week - THANK YOU. To each and everyone of the 1,000 people who joined us in Edinburgh for our 20th anniversary Convention and Excellence Awards Gala Dinner. We have been completely overwh...
Millions of space enthusiasts have been tracking the progress of the robotic comet probe Philae, which apparently resembles a dishwasher, making an historic but awkward landing last Wednesday. Over the weekend it went into hibernation with a closing ...
This week's blog has been penned by Matthew Poyiadgi, Managing Director Europe, Pearson VUE. Matthew joins us at Convention on 26 November to deliver an engaging and thought-provoking presentation which will make us think about how technology is alt...
It’s often said that a picture can paint a thousand words but can the same be said about a number? Three numbers featured heavily in the News this week, - 14, - 15 and - 55. They were of course the latest polling statistics of what thenation t...
This week's blog has been penned by Liz Barclay, broadcaster and writer specialising in consumer business issues and personal finance. She is a communications trainer and coach and works with a variety of businesses in finance, health and public sec...
The old Dutch saying ‘Trust comes on foot but leaves on horseback’ has a distinct resonance this week following widespread media reports of a lack of transparency in the energy switching companies. Big Deal, itself an energy switching ...
The old Dutch saying ‘Trust comes on foot but leaves on horseback’ has a distinct resonance this week following widespread media reports of a lack of transparency in the energy switching companies. Big Deal, itself an energy switching ...
Battling with business has become a curse of our time, and many of us now spend the equivalent of a day a week simply managing our online lives. Unwelcome intrusions in the form of cold calls or spam can test the patience of even the most temperate a...
Dominating the news this week was the announcement from Nick Clegg that the coalition will pledge to prioritise mental health care in the NHS, investing some £180m to ensure patients have improved access to services. A new survey by insurer F...
Even the least romantic of us can’t fail to have been impressed by the glamorous spectacle of George Clooney’s wedding to Amal Alamuddin, complete with speedboats and vaporettos speeding through the canals of Venice. This fairy tale enga...
Apple topped the list of ‘coolest ‘brands in this weeks CoolBrands awards, with Twitter dropping out of the top 20, and Instagram making its debut at number 14. Voters were asked to bear in mind style, innovation, originality, authentic...
There are few issues that get people as hot under the collar as nuisance calls, and rightly so. The majority of us will receive them at some point and at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) we receive more complaints about nuisance call...
That well worn phrase 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' is mostly sound advice but how do we ensure we have a consensus about what ‘broke’ actually looks like? Does the rhetoric match the reality? This was the critical discussion point a...
A few months ago I was preoccupied with thinking about what was the best way to mark five years of social customer care; a space I had been and continue to be involved with since 2008. I decided to produce a retrospective that brought together some o...
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