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		<title>Social Media Marketing Training</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/08/31/social-media-marketing-training/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you fed up with the &#8216;social media marketing&#8217; over-hype? Are you just really keen to get you (or your marketing team) trained and REALLY confident in this area? We offer straightforward, honest, hands-on training, in our purpose-built Dunning DNA Lab. We&#8217;ve got a special e-mail promotion with prices starting at a very affordable £70 per person, for our half-day package. What we do in The Lab is not a seminar, it&#8217;s proper, joined-up marketing advice and specific training, provided by marketing experts. What else do you get? To help you, to help yourself, our Lab is an interactive experience. You&#8217;ll try out and work on all the platforms you&#8217;ll be using (Twitter, Facebook. LinkedIn), to help make your Social Media Marketing strategy a success. You&#8217;ll also get tips on how social marketing can get you appointments, make you money and how <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/08/31/social-media-marketing-training/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>#themeet140 Inspires</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/08/22/themeet140-inspires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday the 19th of August a couple of the @DunningDesign Team attended #themeet140 in the Lansdowne pub in the west end of Glasgow. Julian represented Dunning and Claire &#8216;came out&#8217; as the face behind @skelptarse to much amusement and &#8216;I should have guessed&#8217; type remarks. The event was incredibly well attended with over 120 eager Tweeters talking to each other IRL. Whilst a great networking experience in itself, the more remarkable outputs  have been the blogs that the relationships established and/or strengthened have inspired. Claire met @blessedsister on entering the Lansdowne and was inspired enough by her blog 140 Strangers&#8230;! to post this in reply: Hi Blessed Sister, Now we are no longer strangers and I reckon that happened two seconds after we introduced ourselves, I feel at ease asking ‘how did your exam go?’ I do hope that <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/08/22/themeet140-inspires/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>University of the West of Scotland inducted into the Skillset Media Academy</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/07/30/university-of-west-of-scotland-inducted-into-the-media-academy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media Academies are Centres of Excellence in the teaching of Media production. There are around 22 in the UK. If you compare this with the number of Further Education establishments in the UK, it’s clear, it’s not that easy to become a Member of this prestigious gang. For a start, there’s a process which involves a detailed approvals visit in the form of an inspection. After this, a rigorous process takes place with the staff and students covering criteria which includes Interviews, Staff appraisal, Business Planning Research and examining Work experience processes. As a Board Member of Skillset Scotland, our own Julian Westaby was an ‘Industry Representative’ during the recent process of deciding whether University of West of Scotland (UWS) should gain induction to the Media Academy. What made it doubly interesting is that they’d tried in the past to <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/07/30/university-of-west-of-scotland-inducted-into-the-media-academy/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Dunning DNA &#8216;Lab&#8217; is open for business</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/07/16/the-dunning-dna-lab-is-open-for-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dunning Lab is now open for business. Our first Social Media Marketing &#8216;students&#8217; have been in to our custom-built facility to learn all about Dunning DNA and the impact it will have on their business.  Our very own Claire Dunning, a fellow and board member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing ran the first training session with Co-Director Julian Westaby. Although Dunning DNA is Brand focused, a lot of the training we&#8217;re providing is in the area of Social Media Marketing. It&#8217;s a lot more than just sticking a Twitter and a Facebook Page up. It&#8217;s about using creative content to help you stand out from the crowd. The Dunning DNA Lab is unique and our Social Media Marketing facility is the first purpose-built facility in Scotland. If you&#8217;d like to &#8216;enroll&#8217; your team to start a Knowledge Transfer <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/07/16/the-dunning-dna-lab-is-open-for-business/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Social marketing the new Scottish Tourism panacea?</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/06/30/is-social-marketing-the-new-scottish-tourism-panacea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If 40 per cent of trips in Scotland are taken by those who live here, should we urge Scots to forget their passports and discover the &#8216;staycation&#8217; phenomenon? After all, a recent, £250,000 drive behind it expects to generate £7.5 million for Scotland. So, preaching to the sort-of-converted is a good thing.   However, there&#8217;s other more luxury side of the coin. We now compete in a Global marketplace AND people are seeking &#8216;above-and-beyond&#8217; adventures and more excitement in their travels. It seems that Luxury and Adventure Travel could also be very important to Scotland. The travel elite don&#8217;t just want to stay in 5-star hotels anymore, they want to jump out of helicopters to go skiing, get car tours around idyllic spots, arrange personalised art and culture tours… Anything, as long as it&#8217;s THEIR holiday. A bespoke holiday. If they&#8217;ve got the <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/06/30/is-social-marketing-the-new-scottish-tourism-panacea/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s up</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/06/16/its-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our new site is up and as you&#8217;ll be able to see, it now properly reflects what we&#8217;re all about. This dynamic platform will allow us to highlight the latest projects and client wins and give you our latest thoughts, over all the Social Marketing platforms. It also highlights Dunning DNA, our brand building tools, which go deep into the foundations of an organisation to build memorable and interesting brands. Our usual blog will also appear here and of course our feisty wee Twitter feed, where this week, we&#8217;ve managed to offend Keith Chegwin by mentioning The Naked Jungle, where Keith was erm&#8230;naked. You did it, Cheggers, you might as well be bare faced about it!]]></description>
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		<title>How to get ahead in Advertising/Marketing/Design&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/05/27/how-to-get-ahead-in-advertsingmarketingdesign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/05/27/how-to-get-ahead-in-advertsingmarketingdesign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 14:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can we start by saying this blog&#8217;s designed to help University Graduates to get a job and because of this, it HAS to be taken in the spirit it&#8217;s intended. If not, it could easily come across as a boring, old, jaded, Industry fart, taking a pot-shot at our Education system and its inability to arm students with the necessary chutzpah for them entering possible employment in the &#8216;big bad world&#8217;. If it does come across like this, we apologise, but we think honesty, straight-talking and a &#8216;cut to the chase&#8217; aspect is the wake-up call required, particularly when we look at our experiences over the past few days. So, without any further ado, some killer things that we think are fundamentals for Marketing/Advertising/Digital/Design/Communications hopefuls. Before you send out ANYTHING let alone a poorly spell-checked, template CV, read this: 1. <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/05/27/how-to-get-ahead-in-advertsingmarketingdesign/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Think you&#039;re &#039;hot&#039; at &#039;Social Media&#039;? Think again!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/05/05/think-youre-hot-poop-at-social-media-think-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 15:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re making a pretty good job of getting all the media forces working together for our clients. We reckon we&#8217;re also injecting a great deal of creativity, into the whole mad mix that&#8217;s generally referred to as &#8216;social media&#8217;. Yup, we&#8217;d like to think that a lot of what we do is fairly cutting-edge and quite, no, make that definitely, rather clever. However, every now and again, something so creative comes along that it simply fills you with a sense of awe. It makes you realise that with cutting-edge digital technology and a creative mind, literally ANYTHING is possible. One such piece of &#8216;we&#8217;re not worthy&#8217;-ness work has emerged recently. Unusually, it&#8217;s come from what some might say is the unlikely creative melting-pot of&#8230; Scandinavia. Basically, it&#8217;s a truly amazing &#8216;viral&#8217; with cinematic qualities, which was created by Draft FCB in <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/05/05/think-youre-hot-poop-at-social-media-think-again/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is your website boring and ugly?</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/04/22/volcano-clegg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were going to have absolutely NO chat on here about Volcanos or Politics, you&#8217;ll be delighted to hear. However, this weE bit of trending the search words &#8216;Clegg&#8217; and &#8216;Volcano&#8217; was very interesting. If you launched a cleaning product on the Internet called Volcano Clegg a few weeks ago, so what? If you&#8217;d launched it this week, you&#8217;d have cracked it! This month, we&#8217;re working in the worlds of Chambers of Commerce, Recruitment Consultancies, Wood-Burning Stove Technology, Investors in People, Defence Technology, Christian Care Homes&#8230;you get the picture. A bit of a &#8216;broad church&#8217;, you could say. Anyway, what do all these diverse organisations and industries have in common and why have they come to us? What is it that we&#8217;re using to create compelling brands? Basically we start by asking Dunning&#8217;s 4 Killer Questions? Have you done a lot <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/04/22/volcano-clegg/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/04/16/faster-pussycat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s talk of ‘digital’ this and ‘internet’ that, thrown into every pub conversation and it’s clear it’s ‘the future’. But we reckon, when it comes to speed, we&#8217;re not even at the races. For instance, at Dunning we pay for an Internet connection that&#8217;s &#8216;up to 8mbps&#8217;. We tested our speed and it was indeed ‘up to 8mbps’… it was about 5.5mbps. Sounds okay and it’s actually enough to do most, fairly-standard office stuff. However and it’s a BIG However: If you’re going to be a LEADING Digital Economy, this is flipping hopeless. Unfortunately in Scotland, we’re competing in a bloody inconvenient thing called the ‘Global Marketplace&#8217;. The great news here is that we’ve got a Government who have just announced an initiative and we were lucky enough to attend the launch of Interactive Scotland. If you read the self-congratulatory <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/04/16/faster-pussycat/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>If you don&#039;t vote, one of them gets in anyway.</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/04/13/601/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Election time again and although we&#8217;ve tried to veer-away from it, we&#8217;ve feel we&#8217;ve got to comment on the recent Election shenanigans, from a marketing angle. It seems to us that whether it&#8217;s Clegg, Brown or Cameron, there&#8217;s not a lot of innovation going on, anywhere. We&#8217;re not suggesting that British politics jumps on the USA bandwagon and gets really cheesy but why not get a wee bit more &#8216;social&#8217; like Barack did?  Over here, it&#8217;s still the same old knocking copy and condescending stuff we&#8217;re getting subjected to. No-one&#8217;s &#8216;show-boating&#8217;, in a good way. In our opinion, the political marketing process should be leading the way and demonstrating real innovation. It&#8217;s something the whole country&#8217;s focused on and as they get masses of FREE airtime to be clever, they have to capitalise on this. So far, one week <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/04/13/601/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Upselling or Creative Marketing?</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/04/07/583/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Guest Blogger is the shy, retiring, Alasdair Smith, who goes under the rather splendid nom de plume of Kid Cairoon Twitter. He&#8217;s still not fully explained exactly why he chose this name but we think he may have watched a lot of &#8216;Mr Ben&#8217; in the 1970&#8242;s. Either that or he was a big fan of Kent Walton&#8217;s wrestling hour on &#8216;ITV&#8217;s World of Sport&#8217;, when he actually WAS a &#8216;kid&#8217;. Alasdair&#8217;s on secondment from Skillset to Skills Development Scotland and as our Julian&#8217;s on the Board at Skillset, we see Alasdair in at Dunning Towers a fair bit. Here, we&#8217;re only letting Alasdair take a pop at our flippin&#8217; lifeblood, our very raison detre! Up-selling? We&#8217;d call it &#8216;Creative Marketing&#8217;, Alasdair! Are we mad, or just delighted his blog&#8217;s got nothing to do with politics? Up-sell this! “NO!” I shout <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/04/07/583/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish Technology Prize</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/03/30/scottish-technology-prize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t really need to elaborate here, as the new new super-duper website we&#8217;ve just created for Thales explains all about the Scottish Technology Prize. Suffice to say, it&#8217;s helping Thales (hugely successful 13 billion Euro company) to interact with the brightest technology talent working in and coming out of Scotland&#8217;s University. With a BIG cash prize and a lot of kudos, we&#8217;re already sending out information to the relevant Technical departments and faculties. If you know of someone who would find tens of thousands of pounds quite handy, send them this link.]]></description>
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		<title>Fae Central College, tae Central Park!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/03/23/frae-central-college-tae-central-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Louise Brown is our super-slick student placement from Central College in Glasgow. When she told us that her tutor had arranged a trip for her and her classmates to visit some of USA’s finest Advertising and Communications firms, in ‘The Big Apple’ we were MORE than a bit inquisitive to find out more. Louise kindly wrote us a nice blog on her ‘Mad Men’ experience. What an opportunity for a teenager! If you&#8217;re in the least bit interested in Advertising and Marketing, prepare to be very jealous! “For a change I felt excitement on a Monday morning, waking up to head to the Airport for New York City!  First day I arrive  I head  straight for the typical hot dog stand and order  my Dog with ‘Ketchup’. On the way to the Ferry trip to Staten Island I catch a <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/03/23/frae-central-college-tae-central-park/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Re:wiring Scotland-it might make a difference!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/03/18/546/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of the Dunning team attended the Annual SCDI forum, which took place last week in St Andrews. Whilst we didn’t ‘Re:wire’ Scotland as the topic of the forum in the Fairmont Hotel suggested, we feel we’ve now helped to turn-on Scotland’s digital capability and the event certainly got a few people pulsing! A few hundred of Scotland’s entrepreneurs, political hotshots, rich and successful people and general movers-and-shakers got together to listen and contribute-to a broad debate on the future of Scotland. Bold Thinking, Tough Choices and Clear Focus were the three sub-plots for discussion and although there were a number of avenues not investigated (not surprising in only a day-and-a-half) there was a great deal of food for thought and, we feel, a large amount of forward momentum created. Chief protagonists and those with the most forthright opinions <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/03/18/546/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Famous people I&#8217;ve met: No.3254-William Hague</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/03/16/famous-people-ive-met-no-3254/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Hague obviously gets to meet lots of political powerhouses, in his high-profile role, in the Shadow Cabinet. But has he met more famous politicians than Claire Dunning? I very much doubt it! Claire obviously has seen it all before and adds the former &#8216;Tory Boy&#8216; to the ever-lengthening list of &#8216;Politico&#8217;s&#8217; she&#8217;s had her photie taken with: &#8216;Mandy&#8217;, &#8216;Broonie&#8217;, Anthony Charles Lynton Blair etc etc. She&#8217;s met more &#8216;Big Wigs&#8217; than Elton John and Bruce Forsyth&#8217;s make -up artists, put together. As you&#8217;ll see from the photo, Mr Hague&#8217;s quite an imposing figure though, as Claire&#8217;s not exactly a midget. She was too short to be a supermodel but was thrown-out of The Royal School of Ballet when she stretched to five and a half feet&#8230; There&#8217;s no denying, he&#8217;s got presence and if things had turned out differently, <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/03/16/famous-people-ive-met-no-3254/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bold Thinking, Tough Choices, Clear Focus</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/03/09/bold-thinking-tough-choices-clear-focus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of this week, we&#8217;re decanting to St Andrews for the Annual Scottish Council for Development in Industry (SCDI) Forum. As you&#8217;ll see above, this year&#8217;s theme is  Re:wiring Scotland and as we&#8217;ve created the whole Identity for the event, we reckon it&#8217;s going to be great. Really, it&#8217;s  &#8217;must-go-to&#8217; event for all forward-thinking companies and organisations operating in Scotland. Rewiring Scotland (which takes place over two days at the Fairmont near St Andrew&#8217;s) comes at a really interesting time for Scotland. Anecdotally, we&#8217;ve heard from a lot of people who seem to believe that the worst of &#8216;the recession&#8217; is behind us but we&#8217;ve also spoken to others (particularly in the Public sector), who reckon the savagery of spending cuts are only just beginning to manifest themselves. In Glasgow alone this week, there&#8217;s been a couple of <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/03/09/bold-thinking-tough-choices-clear-focus/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here, and we want them now.</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/02/22/a-cup-of-coffee-too-far/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spare some change fur the Scottish delegation taxi back to the airport, big man?]]></description>
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		<title>Scotland for the Winter Olympics?</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/02/17/scotland-for-the-winter-olympics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been watching the Winter Olympics on the telly and although it&#8217;s not had the same amount of hype we feel as past Winter Olympics, it&#8217;s still rivetting. However, it&#8217;s a bit ironic that places like Vancouver and Whistler and the likes who are normally seen as default ski paradises are suffering from lack of snow! You&#8217;ll probably have noticed, it&#8217;s been quite snowy in Scotland! Our Director, Julian Westaby has just returned from The Cairngorms and his pictures show that it&#8217;s absolutely incredible up there, at the moment. It&#8217;s too soon to tell but it&#8217;s looking like this season will be the best skiing season in Scotland-ever. Records are getting broken all the time and it&#8217;s even had a knock-on for those urban skiers, near Paisley! The Snozone indoor ski centre at Braehead Shopping Centre has had record visitor <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/02/17/scotland-for-the-winter-olympics/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Valentines&#8230; my love is like a Red Red Rose……</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/02/10/my-love-is-like-a-red-red-rose%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m a hopeless romantic. I’m hopeless at being romantic. It seems like I ain’t alone here. We’ve done a bit of a straw poll (okay, we asked all the punters in the studio here) and it appears that NOBODY actually likes Valentine’s Day. So, how come, in the face of this overwhelming abhorrence of this crass commercialisation and over-inflation of all things ‘D’Amour’, do we continually get erm…sucked-into it, every bloody year? Love isn’t just blind, it appears to be terminally stupid. Personally, I thought ‘Valentine’s’ was a ‘Day’ invented by some red-braces-wearing, enterprising, PR person back in 1980’s London, while he was waiting the three days for his mobile phone to charge up. A bit like ‘National Sausage Week’, ‘Hug An Asylum-Seeker Tuesday’ or whatever else they dreamed-up, to gain what used to be called ‘column inches’, when we <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/02/10/my-love-is-like-a-red-red-rose%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>That Hitler, he&#039;s a funny guy!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/01/29/that-hitler-hes-a-funny-guy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s an unlikely headline. So how come the World’s most hated man is funny? There’s lots of stuff floating through the Internet but one of the consistently funny things are the ‘Hitler’ videos that have been circulating the Globe. The actual idea sounds a bit naff; take an existing bit of footage from a foreign language film (admittedly a very gripping film) and simply add subtitles to it. It doesn’t really sound too promising, until you actually see one of these mini masterpieces. The videos cover everything from the ‘Trams’ situation in Edinburgh through to Manchester United football matches and everything in-between. The very latest being one we knocked up last night about the Glasgow Airport Rail Link. The language used is erm…choice (definitely not for kids or sensitive office environments). The film in question is Downfall (German: Der Untergang) <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/01/29/that-hitler-hes-a-funny-guy/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>It&#039;s our first Guest Blogger!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/01/27/its-our-first-guest-blogger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Dunning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re looking to get people of all ages, walks-of-life, opinions, political backgrounds and sensitivities to &#8216;guest&#8217; on our blog. People with something to say about: &#8216;How we Communicate&#8217;. It&#8217;s a broad topic, so would you like to be one of them? If so, contact us at www.creatingsparks.com, to tell us why it should be you! Gillian Lamarra (yup, that&#8217;s her real name) studied advertising and PR at the College of Commerce in Glasgow before going to Uni, to study Mass Media and Communications. She&#8217;s taking a break from studying and has worked in many places (including in a pub), whilst attempting to crack the world of &#8216;Advertising&#8217; . On this journey, Gillian&#8217;s realised that she has a passion for writing.  She&#8217;s 23 and &#8220;still clueless about where I will end up, I&#8217;ll let you know when I get there&#8221;. We quite <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/01/27/its-our-first-guest-blogger/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>It&#039;s our National day &#8211; its a Holi-Holiday!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/01/26/its-our-national-day-its-a-holi-holiday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian Westaby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because our new Digital Strategist Aleks is sort-of Australian (well, he sounds Australian) we all went out, to celebrate Australia Day (yes, I know, lunchtime drinking, in the nanny state of Scotland, absolutely outrageous!). Anyway, in- between mouthfuls of Victoria Bitter and Kangaroo curry (no joke) we got round to discussing this issue of &#8216;Nationalism&#8217;. In Oz, January 26 is a National holiday and it&#8217;s an opportunity for them to indulge in the Three &#8216;B&#8217;s (beach, barbeque, beer) and generally have a good time and express their Antipodean-ness. It&#8217;s fun, it&#8217;s harmless and it&#8217;s an excuse to meet people and tell them about how good your country is, in a bit of a tongue-in-cheek way. We know that the whole aspect of &#8216;Nationalism&#8217; is a bit of a touchy subject but we reckon that if it&#8217;s a good excuse for <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/01/26/its-our-national-day-its-a-holi-holiday/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#039;t shoot the messenger</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/01/19/dont-shoot-the-messenger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we told you about a Hampshire firm called J. Chandler &#38; Co who have been all over the Scottish press this week, you&#8217;d probably ask us &#8220;who they?&#8221;.  However, if we mention the name of the drinks brand they distribute and market, you&#8217;d probably&#8230;(no, let&#8217;s make that definitely) have heard of their product. It&#8217;s a tonic wine called Buckfast. Now, Buckfast&#8217;s not exactly the elixir of the Gods but it&#8217;s not alone in this situation. It&#8217;s not the only &#8216;cheap&#8217; alcohol product aimed at what could be seen as the &#8216;underbelly&#8217; of Scottish society. It retails at over 6 quid a bottle, so it can&#8217;t even have the label of &#8216;cheap&#8217; booze levelled at it. If you were a distributor or purveyor of &#8216;honest&#8217; alcohol drinks, you could probably be seen to be incredibly  jealous of a product which <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/01/19/dont-shoot-the-messenger/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>We&#039;re helping to rewire Scotland</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/01/11/were-helping-to-rewire-scotland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few months, we&#8217;ve been working on a number of projects with Scottish Council for Development in Industry (SCDI) and this is set to continue in 2010. Hot off the press (you don&#8217;t get to say that as much, any more!) is the the launch document for Re:wiring Scotland , SCDI&#8217;s most important event of the year. Bold Thinking, Tough Choices and Clear Focus are the watchwords for this major Forum and Economic Summit. Taking place in March at Fairmont St Andrews, it&#8217;s basically a forum world-class programme of events, featuring lots of international experts. They will be giving their unique insights into the success process and their experiences, which Scottish Business leaders who attend can take away with them and implement. It&#8217;s really all about shaping Scotland&#8217;s future. If you fancy attending Scotland&#8217;s most important Business Forum <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/01/11/were-helping-to-rewire-scotland/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ladies and Gentlemen, put your hands together forrrrr&#8230;Aleks Bochniak!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/01/07/ladies-and-gentlemen-put-your-hands-together-forrrrr-aleks-bochniak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As he&#8217;s half-Polish, it&#8217;s a bit disturbing for our new Digital Strategist, Aleks Bochniak to be describing Glasgow as a &#8216;frozen wasteland&#8217;! However, as he&#8217;s also half Australian, it&#8217;s probably a bit understandable. It&#8217;s minus EIGHT in City Centre Glasgow today, so Pret a Manger porridge was an absolute must to kick start the day. We live in a beautiful, heritage building, which unfortunately comes with beautiful, heritage, single-glazed windows and beautiful tiles and marble corridors &#8230;.brrrr&#8230; However, when everyone eventually arrived in here, courtesy of Scotrail or First or whatever they are called now (Tom and some disgruntled commuters had to resort to commandeering the &#8216;cage&#8217; wagon, usually used by the post and the guards, to get on a train!) a warm welcome was supplied. Well, a rather chilly welcome but you know what we mean. Sadly, there&#8217;s still <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/01/07/ladies-and-gentlemen-put-your-hands-together-forrrrr-aleks-bochniak/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Up Grit creek, without a paddle?</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/01/05/up-grit-creek-without-a-paddle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Crielly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay okay, we know hindsight&#8217;s a great thing but surely the coldest UK weather for 20 years should not come as a HUGE surprise? ALL the Councils in Scotland seem to have been caught with their pants down because it&#8217;s cold and logistically and statistically, this can&#8217;t be seen as acceptable?   In our computer-modelled-to-death world, there has to be much better planning than this? It&#8217;s a shambles and I know it&#8217;s easy to hark on about the Alpine and Baltic States and Canada and other places being able to cope but it&#8217;s cyclical! We were DUE a cold winter, so to only be prepared for a NORMAL winter, seems to be a bit short-sighted, or daft even! Maybe we&#8217;re taking a simplistic view but there has to be a &#8216;what if&#8217; scenario for every aspect of forward-planning. If not, <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2010/01/05/up-grit-creek-without-a-paddle/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Sparks in 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/12/23/creating-sparks-in-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well chaps, that&#8217;s us closing the doors on December 23rd, for them to re-open, in a shiny new decade, on January 5th 2010. It&#8217;s been a very &#8216;interesting&#8217; year for us, culminating in Claire Dunning being appointed to the International Board of Trustees for the Charted Institute of Marketing. Further to this, Julian Westaby has been appointed to the Board of Skillset Scotland. It&#8217;s clear we&#8217;ve got talent, experience and now, a nice little bit of Kudos to start a New Year with! We&#8217;ve also secured a fantastic new member of the team Aleks Bochniak, who starts with us on January 7th. He&#8217;s a digital strategist par excellence and will be hitting the ground running as we&#8217;ve ALREADY got a number of major new projects in the pipeline. We&#8217;re also looking to meet with other talented and interesting people who <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/12/23/creating-sparks-in-2010/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting Fit and Spirited @ 29</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/12/18/fighting-fit-and-spirited-29/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good company, good food and the good old Glesga &#8216;banter&#8217; were out in force to celebrate the end of another business year with Glasgow Chamber of Commerce’s president and our own MD, Claire Dunning earlier this week. The venue was the stunning private members club 29 in Royal Exchange Square. Claire chose 29 not only because she is a member but to reflect the transition the Chamber has experienced over the last two years whilst she&#8217;s been at the helm, as President. There’s no denying it&#8217;s been a tough two years trading. However, a refreshed and strengthened Board, led by a young female, entrepreneurial president has had a positive impact. With Stuart Patrick as the new chief executive and the shiny, brand-new commercial director, Richard Muir &#8211; keen as mustard, Richard attended the reception the day before he started &#8211; <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/12/18/fighting-fit-and-spirited-29/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Say goodbye to our first &#039;pop-up&#039; Media Gallery</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/12/09/say-goodbye-to-our-pop-up-gallery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cammy Leon Gallery, which &#8216;popped-up&#8217; in November was a HUGE success! We created a multi-media installation here at Dunning Towers and introduced lots of clever and talented people to OTHER clever and talented people. The evening entitled The Secret Stramash of Spectacular Shenanigans, was erm&#8230;different and DEFINITELY lived up to the &#8216;Stramash&#8217; billing. The Gallery was Curated by Fine Arts supremo Eilidh Young, who assembled an amazing array of talent. Art met Business, creativity burgeoned, music was played, poetry read, movies were watched, wine was quaffed, beer was drunk, more beer was drunk, Oddbins had a field day. If you&#8217;d like Eilidh to do an event for you, she gets great people, takes all the organisational heat off you and is great fun to deal with, so engage with her soon, before she gets too busy! If we&#8217;re being <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/12/09/say-goodbye-to-our-pop-up-gallery/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Julian&#039;s been appointed to Skillset Board</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/12/01/julians-been-appointed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julian Westaby, one of our Directors, has been appointed to the National Board for Scotland for Skillset Skillset is the Sector Skills Council for Creative Media and works to raise skills levels in every sector of industry within its remit. Skillset subdivides the Creative Media Industries into ten sectors: Animation Computer games Facilities Film Interactive media Other content creation Photo imaging Publishing Radio Television Julian has been appointed to represent the branding and interactive media sector of the creative industries.  He says of his new role &#8220;I am delighted to be involved with Skillset, working to help raise all round awareness of the industry, its context, processes and business issues as a whole ensuring that the UK creative media industries maintain their world class position.&#8221; We reckon this is a REALLY exciting position and obviously, we’ll have a great deal <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/12/01/julians-been-appointed/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>It was a total shenanigans!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/11/30/it-was-a-total-shenanigans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Secret Stramash of Spectacular Shenanigans! That was a proper night! We had a right few people here on Friday for the launch of our Guerilla project, The Cammy Leon Gallery. With well over a hundred people in through the door, lots of work sold (to VERY high-profile buyers) and with lots of new friends made, we&#8217;re certainly going to be doing another. The whole purpose of The Cammy Leon Gallery was to showcase up-and-coming art talent, but it&#8217;s done much more than that. It introduced interesting people to each other, it let proud parents see their talented kid&#8217;s work, actually up on a wall in a non-college setting, it also let artists sell some of their works, for no commission! A highlight for me was the rich variety of live music which was featured. We had an eclectic mix <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/11/30/it-was-a-total-shenanigans/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret Stramash is no longer secret! Update!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/11/26/the-secret-stramash-is-no-longer-secret-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems to have come around so quickly but it&#8217;s now here! The Cammy Leon Gallery AKA The Secret Stramash of Spectacular Shenanigans comes to 90 Mitchell Street, as from Friday 27th November. It&#8217;s a mix of the brightest, multifaceted creative talent, from all over Scotland and if we&#8217;re being honest, we don&#8217;t really know what to expect! It&#8217;s certainly not going to be bloody boring. At the moment, it&#8217;s got a bit of  &#8221;Guerrilla&#8217; feel to it, which is what we&#8217;re aiming for, so that&#8217;s good! One all the work is up, it&#8217;s going to be magic! Some of the short films on display are very, very interesting as well. Anyway, it&#8217;s packed-out already, so you&#8217;re too late for tomorrow, but if you fancy coming along to the NEXT Secret Stramash of Spectacular Shenanigans, let us know! For those <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/11/26/the-secret-stramash-is-no-longer-secret-update/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gallery Opening-This Friday</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/11/23/gallery-opening-this-friday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glasgow&#8217;s most exciting, multi-faceted new Gallery space opens it&#8217;s doors for the first time ever, on Friday November 27th. There&#8217;s really too much happening to talk about here but it&#8217;s basically a hotbed of all the creative talent in West of Scotland. With every form of visual arts being represented and with a number of musical genres being featured, there will be something to interest everyone. However, space is limited and it&#8217;s therefore by invite only. If you fancy coming along, send us an email and we&#8217;ll tell you more. victor@creatingsparks.com]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret Stramash of Spectacular Shenanigans!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/11/17/the-secret-stramash-of-spectacular-shenanigans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA['Scotland's best showcase gallery for hot new creative talent, of any kind']]></description>
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		<title>The World&#039;s Greatest Explorer does &#039;stand-up&#039;!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/11/09/the-worlds-greatest-explorer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;d been invited to listen to a speech by an Old Etonian, who&#8217;s a distant relative of the Royal family, you might be inclined to think it would be well worth a body-swerve. However, when said Old Etonian is none other than Sir Ranulph Fiennes, if you&#8217;d suddenly remembered an urgent dentist&#8217;s appointment, you&#8217;d have missed out. We were present at the SCDI Annual Dinner and International Awards at Edinburgh&#8217;s EICC last weekend, where the &#8216;World&#8217;s Greatest Living Explorer&#8217; explained, in his own unique, dry, witty and incredibly-understated way, how he&#8217;s managed to do&#8230;well, just about blinkin&#8217; everything. In modern-day life, hyperbole abounds and lots of &#8216;famous-for-15-minutes&#8217; stars are eulogised for their &#8216;inner strength&#8217;, allowing them to get through to the next round in a dancing competition or winning a karaoke-type singing contest&#8230;Sir Ranulph&#8217;s unbelievable tales about his truly extraordinary <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/11/09/the-worlds-greatest-explorer/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>It&#039;s hip to be square!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/11/05/its-hip-to-be-square/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, I did a project with the students at Central College in Glasgow where we were &#8216;re-inventing&#8217; the Scottish &#8216;square&#8217; sausage. The square sausage, or &#8216;flat&#8217; sausage or  &#8217;sliced&#8217; sausage, or &#8216;slicing&#8217; sausage or &#8216;lorn&#8217; sausage  or sometimes &#8216;Lorne&#8217; sausage (it&#8217;s called different things by different demographics) comes in many guises and it&#8217;s a Scottish national delicacy. It&#8217;s peculiarly Scottish. A sausage wi&#8217; nae skin. You can get it in slices, or in a &#8216;block&#8217; which enables you to carve off manly chunks as the filling for proper, industrial-scale breakfast rolls. Now, the square sausage, it gets a bit of a kicking from the Healthy Eating brigade because in it&#8217;s common-or-garden form, served in a roll, out of burger vans, at concerts and football matches, it&#8217;s a bit of an unknown quantity. There are numerous horror stories as <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/11/05/its-hip-to-be-square/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What you’ll read here is nothing new.</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/10/29/what-you%e2%80%99ll-read-here-is-nothing-new/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re  introducing a crazy marketing challenge: Become THE expert in your field, in Scotland, within six months. Yes, that’s right, irrespective of how ‘BIG’ or ‘SME’ you are, the power to do this is in your own hands, using the ‘miracle’-‘Social Marketing’! “Social Marketing, what’s that?” You’d be right to ask because it’s a subject that has had more rubbish spouted about it than any other marketing phenomenon. ‘Google’: ‘social marketing’ and you get 149 million results! So, what’s the truth? Well, using a 100% measurable, evolving, improving marketing platform, could at least, be quite interesting, but how do you dip ‘a toe in the water’? We’re simplifying here obviously but it involves, joining-up bits of software and ‘the usual Internet suspects’ such as ‘Facebook’ or ‘Bebo’, so people find out all about you. The important factor (the ‘social’ bit) <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/10/29/what-you%e2%80%99ll-read-here-is-nothing-new/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>We&#039;re talking at The Hub-November 12th</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/10/27/were-talking-at-the-hub-november-12th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unaccustomed as we are to public speaking, we&#8217;re going to be doing it again! We&#8217;re one of the speakers at the next Scotland in Business networking event in November. It takes place The Hub the fabulous new building, situated in the heart of Glasgow&#8217;s Pacific Quay. Scotland in Business have a vision to build areas of national and international demographic support among businesses with complimentary resources and knowledge. Their new networking session meets monthly and if you&#8217;ve not been over to The Hub, in Pacific Quay, Glasgow, it&#8217;s worth coming just to see the great space. Of course, our chat on the Power of Social Marketing in Business will obviously be fascinating, full of insight and a work of some power and clarity. Well, it will be, when we write it&#8230; Diary date: The Hub, Pacific Quay Glasgow, 6.30pm-10pm and <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/10/27/were-talking-at-the-hub-november-12th/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to become an effective business leader</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/10/26/how-to-become-an-effective-business-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Common Purpose is a not-for profit-organisation that brings together people to help them become more effective leaders in society.  It runs leadership development programmes offering  inspiration, knowledge and connections to help organisations become more active and engaged in society. It&#8217;s an International organisation but as part of the drive in Scotland, we were invited to speak at their event: THE LOCAL ECONOMY-DOING BUSINESS IN GLASGOW The format for the event was for us to take an overview of the economy in Glasgow &#8211; what are the conditions for success, and how the Glasgow economy fits &#8211; into the National picture. Twelve leading organisations made up of SME, public sector and social enterprise businesses were all represented. And we helped them learn about and better understand the social and business (economy) side of Glasgow. Basically, a lot what we spoke about our <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/10/26/how-to-become-an-effective-business-leader/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Mail takes a traditional view-shock!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/10/20/daily-mail-takes-a-traditional-view-shock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This wee woman is currently Public enemy No1 and it&#8217;s all because of an article she wrote, in a recent issue of The Daily Mail. As we all probably know, Stephen Gately, the Boyzone band member died recently, in fairly tragic circumstances. Obviously, for any young geezer to die is a sad event but the fact that Stephen Gately was a famous pop star and an openly gay man, it was obvious  Daily Mail &#8216;fodder&#8217;. They were duty bound to comment on his death. from a &#8216;traditional&#8217; viewpoint. Whether you subscribe to her beliefs, or the Daily Mail&#8217;s beliefs or whether you&#8217;ve even read the article or not, that&#8217;s not important. What were ARE defending is ANY journalist&#8217;s right to free speech. We&#8217;ve got our opinions on the Daily Mail and we&#8217;d argue that it&#8217;s their JOB to take a <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/10/20/daily-mail-takes-a-traditional-view-shock/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Rail Link &#039;battle&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/10/12/the-rail-link-battle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To your average American, they probably find it absolutely astounding that they can&#8217;t jump off a plane at Glasgow Airport and right onto a fast-link train, which takes them straight into Central Station. Of course, there are lots of historical reasons why Scotland&#8217;s major airport still relies on cabs and buses to ferry the increasing number of visitors and business tourists  into the city. The Dr Beeching train infrastructure cuts which ravaged the rail network in the 1950&#8242;s were set against a backdrop of a fairly bankrupt Britain, where a lot of the soothsayers were thinking that cars and buses were &#8216;the future&#8217; anyway. Trains (and trams, for those of an Edinburgh persuasion!) were seen as outdated, old-fashioned, slow, noisy etc etc. To rational people, it might seem completely and utterly bonkers that in Fife, at St Andrew&#8217;s, the actual <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/10/12/the-rail-link-battle/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is television now dead or is it just resting?</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/10/05/they-think-its-all-over-it-is-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chat round our Monday morning Chablis at Dunning towers was the &#8216;quite remarkable&#8217; (as David Coleman used to say) story that the next England International Football game is ONLY going to be available for footie fans to view over the Internet. For a fee of anything between a fiver or a tenner (depending on when you sign-up) you&#8217;ll get access to the streaming of this bit of football history. It&#8217;s NOT going to be on television for the first time ever. England v Ukraine at a laptop near you! It&#8217;s all been happening in the football arena as this comes hot on the heels of the mighty Kilwinning Rangers announcing that they&#8217;ve covered a game on Twitter http://twitter.com/steadythebuffs a Scottish first, according to them. How exactly this is going to work is obviously going to be the most interesting part but <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/10/05/they-think-its-all-over-it-is-now/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Oscars of The Business World</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/10/01/the-oscars-of-the-business-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glasgow Business Awards Next Thursday, the Glasgow Business Awards take place at the Crowne Plaza on the banks of the Clyde. Once again, it&#8217;s been sponsored by our chums at Bank of Scotland. There are nine awards up for grabs and Dunning are sponsoring our own special award for &#8216;The Best Performing Business with under 25 Employees&#8217;. We&#8217;ve also created the brand and designed all the presentations for the evening, so it&#8217;s obviously going to be a top-notch, black tie &#8216;do&#8217;. We&#8217;ve been heavily-involved in the whole judging process and what this means is, we know who all the Winners are! Of course, there&#8217;s absolutely no danger we&#8217;re going to tell you who each winner, in each of the nine categories is. Well, we could but we&#8217;d then have to kill you. Further bad news is, you can&#8217;t get a <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/10/01/the-oscars-of-the-business-world/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Down wiv da kidz!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/09/29/down-wiv-da-kidz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Mr Westaby was a lad, he didn&#8217;t get the chance to interact with the concept of  &#8217;Speed dating&#8217;. He simply went to the pictures when courting, to see the new fangled &#8216;talkies&#8217; which were all the rage, way back then. So, when Julian told us he was to  introduce over 50 schoolkids from Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh to his cookie concept of &#8216;Speed-Branding&#8216;, to gauge their perceptions of branding and marketing, we were a bit sceptical. &#8220;Aren&#8217;t 16-18 year old kids a bit of a lost cause, the so-called &#8216;hoodie-generation&#8217; we keep reading about in the &#8216;Red Tops&#8217;?&#8221;, we said. Well, we would have said that, if we&#8217;d been suckered-into believing everything the tabloids spew out. Truth be told, we do a fair amount to help Schools and Colleges, so we get to know (as does anyone in the education <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/09/29/down-wiv-da-kidz/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Phoenix from the ashes</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/09/17/phoenix-from-the-ashes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of turmoil in the Scottish &#8216;marketing&#8217; industry at the moment and because of a number of high-profile closings, we got round to speaking about &#8216;Phoenix&#8217; firms in the studio today. &#8216;Phoenix&#8217;? It&#8217;s the &#8216;tabloid&#8217; term for those punters that fold a firm, only to open-up as a similar outfit, (with a slightly different name and most of the same staff) a few days later. Now, there&#8217;s lots of legal and moral arguments as to what exactly is the right, wrong, cynical, naughty and just downright shitty thing to do. We&#8217;re not judging here, as it&#8217;s usually pretty hard to comment on the demise and rise of any firm, because you don&#8217;t know all the facts. However, it&#8217;s interesting to note the diffferent attitudes people have to the failure or folding of a firm. We&#8217;d like to believe most people <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/09/17/phoenix-from-the-ashes/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>http://www.creatingsparks.com..there&#039;s no finish line</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/09/14/cos-there-aint-no-finishing-line-no-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new website is up-and-running but very much as a &#8216;soft&#8217; launch. What we&#8217;ve done is simply to &#8216;join-up&#8217; our website to included all the other aspects we do now, our blog, our twitter, the things we have up on Linkedin, our images on Flickr&#8230;mini movies and presentations we&#8217;re creating&#8230;it&#8217;s non-stop. There&#8217;s no finishing line now and our website will never be complete, it&#8217;s a moving, living, breathing, organic thing. In essence it&#8217;s simply a shop window for our creativity and because of this, it&#8217;ll be getting constantly updated, as we release the exciting new projects we&#8217;re working on. Everyone&#8217;s diffferent though and some of our clients feel they need much more, (or indeed much less) on their website. Whatever approach you feel you need, the two important things to bear in mind are the update-ability and the ease of <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/09/14/cos-there-aint-no-finishing-line-no-more/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The &#039;Citz&#039;, one of the UK&#039;s best and most interesting theatres</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/09/10/the-citz-one-of-the-uks-best-and-most-interesting-theatres/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had a bit of posh lunchy-poos in The Corinthian today, with all the corporate friends of Glasgow&#8217;s Citizens&#8217;s theatre. As  &#8217;pals&#8217; of the place, we obviously like Glasgow&#8217;s innovative theatre space, which nestles in the Gorbals, but is  just a few minutes from the &#8216;main drag&#8217; of the City Centre. Amazingly, the &#8216;Citz&#8217; as all &#8216;wegies&#8217; call it, has been on the go since the 1940&#8242;s and it&#8217;s had a right few famous people through the doors. I found out today that one of today&#8217;s speakers, ex-Glasgow Lord Provost Liz Cameron was totally gutted to find out Rupert Everett was a gay man. He is? You learn something new every day. Anyway, unbeknown to me, famous thespian metrosexual Rupert, he cut his teeth at the Citz and he&#8217;s only one of a string of famous people who have ties <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/09/10/the-citz-one-of-the-uks-best-and-most-interesting-theatres/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Are we experiencing a V or W Recession?</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/09/05/are-we-experiencing-a-v-or-w-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was there, I heard him say it! At the recent Annual CBI Scotland Dinner in Glasgow Alistair Darling told us the the recession was coming to an end, his  words; ”Almost exactly a year ago, I said the world was facing the worst economic conditions in 60 years. Today, I can say that as a result of the action taken by governments everywhere, I am confident that we will see a global recovery next year…there are now visible signs that global confidence is returning: World equity markets have risen for five months in a row The US housing market is showing some signs of stabilisation Economies in Asia are again growing steadily All of this, if sustained, will support global demand over the next few months. That is why I continue to believe that we will see growth in <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/09/05/are-we-experiencing-a-v-or-w-recession/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Globally, drinking locally!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/09/02/thinking-globally-drinking-locally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were one of the partners in Global Ambitions, the major SCDI/Scottish Development International conference on Scotland&#8217;s International Future, which took place at Murrayfield Stadium yesterday. We attend and partner up with lots of events but this one was very important for two reasons. Firstly, it was a meeting of the great and good, and was non-sector specific. Basically, everyone with an interest in Scotland&#8217;s future attended and it was a bit of a &#8216;who&#8217;s who&#8217; of the corporate and public sectors in Scotland. Secondly and probably more importantly was the up-beat nature of the event. Far from being rich in a &#8216;batten-down-the hatches&#8217; rhetoric, it was, dare we say it, rather upbeat. All the presentations will be available on the SCDI website shortly so we won&#8217;t labour on the exact content but it&#8217;s fair to say, it was very <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/09/02/thinking-globally-drinking-locally/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Out with the&#8230;erm&#8230;old</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/08/30/out-with-the-erm-old/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, Well! That wee bit about The Lighthouse&#8217;s demise got many peoples&#8217; knickers  in a fanckle. If as many folk had shown interest when it was open it would have not needed to close! However, Glasgow&#8217;s own Internet phenomenon/BBC comedian Limmy summed it up on the link we posted when he said he wasn&#8217;t sure if you were allowed to go in, or not? That&#8217;s also the reaction and the comments I got from a lot of people over the weekend. Just not clear enough what it was. Anyway, until we hear more on the Lighthouse&#8217;s fate (and yes, we&#8217;d like to suggest things here!), let&#8217;s discuss the newcomer, Trongate 103,  in more detail. Good name, interesting space. I cannae see me getting an invite to the opening in mid-September, especially after suggesting it&#8217;s fulfilling a role that The Lighthouse could <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/08/30/out-with-the-erm-old/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>RIP The Lighthouse. Welcome, some other Design/Creative place?</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/08/26/rip-the-lighthouse-welcome-some-other-designcreative-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the beam is turned off at The Lighthouse, Scotland&#8217;s ultra-expensive, one-time exemplar for design excellence, another Glasgow &#8216;centre of creativity&#8217; opens, less than a mile away! Now, pedants could argue that there&#8217;s a big difference between &#8216;design&#8217; and &#8216;creativity&#8217; but the closing of one £multi-million &#8216;venue&#8217; to be replaced by a pretty similar (and no doubt rather expensive) one along the road, it could be seen at best as bad planning, at worst as an incredible bloody waste of public money. Creativity is how we make our living, so we&#8217;re not suggesting for a moment that we shouldn&#8217;t have incredibly exciting centres of burgeoning creativity in Scotland&#8217;s biggest cities. Of COURSE we should, it just seems that the timing&#8217;s erm&#8230;a wee bit embarrassing? The City fathers have known that The Lighthouse&#8217;s &#8216;coat has been on a shaky nail&#8217; for <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/08/26/rip-the-lighthouse-welcome-some-other-designcreative-place/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>For she&#039;s a jolly good Fellow&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/08/18/for-shes-a-jolly-good-fellow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the extremely cheesy headline but it&#8217;s true, our MD Claire (Dunning) has just been made a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. The &#8216;CIM&#8217; is the World&#8217;s biggest Marketing organisation and helps marketers at every stage of their career, with training, qualifications and resources. Basically, it&#8217;s an organisation which helps businesses to get the most from their marketing people. CIM has around 50,000 members worldwide but there are only 100 or so &#8216;Fellows&#8217; in Scotland and only 10% of these &#8216;Fellows&#8217; work on the &#8216;consultancy&#8217; side of marketing. So, this puts Claire into the Top Ten of Marketing consultants in Scotland. More importantly, for networking in our swish, &#8217;29&#8242; private member&#8217;s club and other posh Glasgow Chamber of Commerce events, she can now put the initials &#8216;FCIM&#8217; after her name. Surely this would be much more fun <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/08/18/for-shes-a-jolly-good-fellow/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Free Train Transport for all!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/08/17/free-train-transport-for-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank God! At long last, it looks as if the diabolical rail infrastructure between Scotland&#8217;s two biggest cities will be getting upgraded. We&#8217;ll not hold our breath but there&#8217;s talk in the press today of six trains an hour, between Queen Street and Waverley and a journey time down to 35 minutes. At the moment, quite a few of the Dunning troops interact with &#8216;the rail&#8217; and whilst general concensus is &#8216;it&#8217;s okay&#8217; it&#8217;s not something that people eulogise about! If (and being cynical, we&#8217;re talking about decades of disappointment here, so it&#8217;s &#8216;if&#8217;) the train service was to improve, it would open up the employment market and stop the Weegie/Embra employment gulf that&#8217;s become a bit more than just a pub joke. I know that when offered two similar placements, (or even a potential new senior member of the <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/08/17/free-train-transport-for-all/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hello world!</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/08/11/hello-world-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<title>Bad Language is better than no language at all</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/08/05/bad-language-is-better-than-no-language-at-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently stuck up a poll on Linkedin to ask what people thought of ‘the use of bad language&#8217; (swearing) in everyday business life. I’m interested in this because recently a really good wee ‘presentation’ has being doing the rounds. It’s called, depending on where you view it, “What the Fuck is Social Marketing” or, in some places, for those of a sensitive nature “What the F*ck is social marketing?” Anyway, my point is, as soon as I saw the ‘F’ word used in business, I was drawn to it, like a rude moth to the profanity flame. However, it just so happens the content for this little slide show is erm…shit hot, it’s really clever. It covers a HUGE subject in a simple way and passes what we call ‘The Granny Test’ ie my mum would read this and <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/08/05/bad-language-is-better-than-no-language-at-all/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Green Shoots of Recovery</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/07/31/green-shoots-of-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve actually seen the green shots of recovery in Glasgow city centre. Many may say I’m stretching the physical metaphor of a plant powering through an otherwise concrete landscape too far but where is their optimism? Probably in the same place that they think the economy is in – the doldrums without a hint of a breeze in sight! This year at Dunning our experience has been month on month growth, increasing our client base across various sectors and company size and a broader understanding of the value of design. I know we are not alone as is clearly demonstrated in the article Glasgow Creative Focus published online by the Marketing Industry Network. The topic; How has Glasgow’s creative sector handled the recession? The answer; very well by all accounts. Read the article and then tell me that the Green <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/07/31/green-shoots-of-recovery/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Digital at the heart of the economy</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/07/16/digital-at-the-heart-of-the-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been reading the latest issue of .Net magazine and as usual, there&#8217;s lots of new, ground-breaking &#8216;stuff&#8217; being mentioned in it. Techniques, &#8216;apps&#8217;, nav tips, 3D design techniques&#8230;tons of zany aspects. All of which I didn&#8217;t know about last week. Now, you could look at this alarming speed of change in two ways. You could try and keep up and read EVERYTHING, using this depth of digital knowledge to give your clients a superficial glossary style guide to everything that&#8217;s of the &#8216;now&#8217;. Loads of stuff that they&#8217;ll probably find quite interesting but never, in a million years ever want to use. Alternatively, you could look at the marketing conundrum they face and work out how best to conquer the challenge, beginning in a good, old-fashioned way, before looking at the tools you might use, to get the <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/07/16/digital-at-the-heart-of-the-economy/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>T in Park 09</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/07/13/t-in-park-09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aleks Bochniak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PreTTy special weekend &#8211; to view Julian&#8217;s trip to the Park go to flickr.com and see what you missed &#8211; even for some of you who were there you probably still missed it!  It was great being able to go-back stage and help Lady GaGa change her costumes and respect to the &#8216;Slam Tent&#8217;.  Of course the &#8216;T&#8217; Brand was on display everywhere with most of us having it rammed down our throats &#8211; thankfully -  2.5 million pints of iT!!!]]></description>
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		<title>Home-made used to mean cra&#8230;.not very good</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/07/07/home-made-used-to-mean-cra-not-very-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We love illustration. It&#8217;s maybe a bit ironic but the digital age has been a bit of a new dawn for illustration. In the early days of &#8216;tinternet&#8217;,  illustration didn&#8217;t really fit in with the rigid &#8216;guidelines&#8217; and accesibility rules, so it all got a bit boring. You were encouraged to use only a  handfull of typefaces, so using illustration didn&#8217;t really enter-into discussions or briefings. Now, you&#8217;ve got even the biggest brands engaging with people on a much more one-to-one basis. Softer, more aesthetic images and illustration fit in with this. It&#8217;s spilling-over into all sorts of areas. The recent Designer quilt exhibition, run by the guys over at Marque Design demonstrated that there&#8217;s a real resurgence in &#8216;craft&#8217;.  Some of the most high-profile designers on the Planet took part and it&#8217;s no surprise that a certain home-spun feel <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/07/07/home-made-used-to-mean-cra-not-very-good/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Email that creates sparks?</title>
		<link>http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/07/01/hello-world-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Brierley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, first post WOOT! Thought Id get us started with some chat about email communication and how to get it right. We are writing our emailer about it just now&#8230; copy below. So how does everyone currently communicate with email templates, and have we all got our message right? Thoughts are welcome! Chrissy out! Header: Dunning CREATING SPARKS E-mailer communication is absolute junk-DO YOU AGREE? If you said ‘yes’ to this, perhaps we can help change your opinion? Okay, everyone’s getting bombarded with more and more irrelevant and sometimes offensive e-mail claptrap but just because Geoffrey Archer wrote some iffy novels, that didn’t mean J.K. Rowling thought that medium was a waste of time. It’s all about the right message, to the right audience. You’ll not be surprised to find out that the logistics of sending out information to important <a href="http://www.creatingsparks.com/2009/07/01/hello-world-2/" class="readmore">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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