Rob Smith's blog - Ecommerce, Digital Media and agency life » Events http://rob-smith.info Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:44:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 DADI Awards – Success for Blueleaf!http://rob-smith.info/2009/11/dadi-awards-success-for-blueleaf/ http://rob-smith.info/2009/11/dadi-awards-success-for-blueleaf/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:23:50 +0000 Rob Smith http://rob-smith.info/?p=158 Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes



dadi_winners_logoOn friday night (the 13th I might add), Blueleaf were nominated for our work with Laura Ashley for the best ecommerce site at the DADI awards. The DADIs are digital indutry awards and so highly focused on websites as a whole. I’m please to say that we won!

It was a great evening – me and Adrian were say next to a few of the Drum girls and also a few of the guys from Fudge so it was good to have a chat to them about how things are going and the direction of the market. And also to observe the crowd shall we say. The place was chocker with great digital agencies: Fudge, MadeByPi, Code ComputerLove, Fuse8 to name but a few of the award winners. It’s great to be even nominated let alone a winner in that kind of crowd and shows how quickly Blueleaf is really shooting forwards. Mega proud that’s for sure. They haven’t put up any results or photos yet however when they do I’ll update this post!

A couple of poor shots below taken on my iPhone’s ropey camera – I’m sure there will be some pro ones soon.

DADI award and a pic of the ceremony

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Myself and Adrian went along to an event run by Business Link at Chester Racecourse yesterday whose key note was presented by two series dragon from Dragon’s Den- Doug Richard.

He gave a very entertaining and quirky keynote that I’m sure not to forget for some time. I would throughly recommend going along to see Doug if you get the chance as he’s got a great style and some refreshing honesty.

The key lessons/advice that I liked was:

  • Clean desk CEO: A CEO or boss who is doing a great job should have a clear desk and no problems. Every single aspect of the organisation should be being run by the person responsible for that function and the CEO should be leading the way.
  • Be ruthless: If something isn’t working then change it, change it quickly and don’t support half measures.
  • But not too ruthless: If something is working, don’t break it.
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Myself and Ben went along to Chinwag’s first Manchester based event for the Digital industry up North, helped along by Manchester Digital.

It was a great little session with an interesting panel and an engaged and vocal audience which always helps keep the conversation flowing. I didn’t pop along for the networking afterwards but I will be doing so at future events as it’s one of my goals this year to become much more integrated with the Manchester digital scene and everything to do with the industry.

Here’s the event listing:

http://www.chinwag.com/events/2008/04/chinwag-live-user-centered-advertising

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