This year's been an important one for me. At the back end of last year I was in a job that was going nowhere and I was getting little opportunity to put my knowledge of the web, online marketing and social media into practice. So I decided to do something about it. I started blogging, reading, researching and putting time and effort into my personal Twitter profile. And it gave me the confidence to do something that some undoubtedly thought was crazy: in the first week of 2010, I quit.
Within two months I found a new job working for BOTTLE PR, a company that has a far more progressive attitude towards PR 2.0. In my current role, I'm encouraged to go out there and do things my way, to spend time reading blogs, building my personal network and researching new tools and techniques. And as a result I've come into contact with, met and learned from some fantastic people in the last 12 months or so. These are just some of the guys who I'd like to give New Year's kudos to...
Chris Hall
Emily Leary
Beth Carroll, Katie Colbourne & Gemma Went
Danny Brown, Deidre Breakenridge, Gini Dietrich & Lauren Fernandez
Honourary mentions
For various reasons too many to list: Kate Spiers, Laura McBeth, Antonia Harler, Barry Furby, Reda Haq, Sheli Rodney, Danny Whatmough, Steve Earl, Kerry Gaffney, Lucy Thorpe, Felix Hemsley, Joel Hughes, Mark Perkins, Paul Rayment, Louise Doherty, Sally Whittle & Susanna Scott
Have a great 2011 one and all!