Archive for January, 2009
No you eat the Frog!
Eat the Frog? … Lifetips on Newstalk, the most irritating 30 seconds on radio today. On a par with Garman’s Sat Nav advert from last month
La Blogotheque
La Blogotheque, a french collective of film makers record well known acts performing in unusual places. Arcade Fire in an elevator, Sufjan Stevens on a rooftop and this brialliant video of Beirut. The videos are recorded on the go, no editing, no cuts, all instruments played live. What sets this video apart is the simple [...]
Most popular Facebook pages
Doing some research on my thesis today I found this, a leaderboard of the most popular product pages on Facebook
GA GO Viral…is the album dead yet?
I was kind of intrigued by this Bacardi & Groove Armada link up that was announced a year ago. Mainly to see if anything interesting was going to come out of it besides the obvious gig/music/soundtrack crossover. And last week something interesting did come out. The bliveshare site rewards punters for downloading and sharing music. [...]
My Goodness My Guinness
The post on Guinness celebrating its 250th birthday got me thinking about some of their advertising campaigns. My first memeory being the bizzare Rutger Hauer ad’s of the 1980′s, since then the company has been responsible for some of the finest moments in TV advertising. Old Rutger (who was allergic to the drink if my [...]
Presentation: Relationship Marketing
Here are the slides for a 90 minute group presentation on Relationship Marketing I was part of back in November. My first time presenting for that duration making it quite daunting but also a challenge. As part of the Masters course groups are assigned topics to research and present to the class in the form [...]
Looking for work too?
Last Fridays figures showed Irish unemployment levels increased by 70% in the past twelve months. Yesterday PWC released a report indicating Irelands economy will shrink by over 4%, compared to 1% in 2008’s. This year, I, along with many others hit the jobs market and the prospects for work are only getting worse. Just over [...]
Blog is now up and running at …
Blog is now up and running at mrlukeabbott.com and here it will stay
U2 in a Dublin Pub?
1759 – 2009, 250 years of Guinness and according to a poster over at On the Record to celebrate U2 (and several other acts) will be playing gigs in Dublin pubs. Great PR for the new album
The Value of Social Media
I have been unconvinced of the value of certain social media services for sometime. I’ve only recently come round to the idea of blogs and their value to me. However, other social media still bug me slightly. For example Twitter , not yet a fan. Perhaps I haven’t given it enough of my time to [...]
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