Did you know that yesterday was Ada Lovelace Day? An international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science, organised by Suw Charman-Anderson. Ada Lovelace was one of the world’s first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She wrote programmes for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a general-purpose computing machine, despite the fact that it was never built.
Suw felt that there just wasn’t enough being written about women achieving in the technology field.
All sounds touch geeky? Then check out the people in this Guardian article and you’ll see how far we’ve come despite resistances from certain quarters in the technology industry. There is some nice video content in it too.

Is there a woman you know and admire working in a technology setting – why share something below and leave a comment?

Great Breakfast Seminar today marking an inaugural collaboration between DMG, the UK’s largest digital marketing business, and Ad Lib. 30 marketing professionals enjoyed a range of presentations from four pundits around the theme of social marketing and reputation management online:
Speakers included Dean Drew – MD of Hyperlaunch and former Client side marketer explored the areas of measuring ROI and Reputation Management online; an interesting approach to Social Marketing by Sea France was presented by their Head of E-Commerce, Phil Taylor; an energetic and thought provoking review of how careful measuring online can create real business opportunities was delivered by Seb Hempstead of Brandwatch; and the tale of offline moving online and the potential a well-run blog can bring, from Faye Penfold of SuitYourself magazine.

The event drew people in from London such as Visit Britain, the Midlands as well as well-known West brands such as Kraft, Clarks and Ecotricity. Were you there? What did you think? Please feel free to post a comment?

Ad Lib’s next FREE seminar will take place on the 30th March and is entitled ‘Make yourself memorable’ and looks at how to make the most of networking situations you find yourself in. Presented by Melissa Kidd of Coaching Creatives, you’ll discover 6 principles which if applied correctly will help you stand out from the crowd for all the right reasons.  If you would like to book a place email frank@adlib-recruitment.co.uk asap.

We noticed that some big name Belgian agencies have launched a virtual strike in a bid to reduce the number of agencies being asked to pitch. They have closed their sites to host an open letter to clients (first page shown above) which runs across the front page of each of their websites, from one agency to the next.

They want clients to agree to a rule that no more than three agencies should be invited to pitch for a piece of business.

We’re watching this with interest – what do you think?

Speculation that Twitter’s growth has stalled has been scotched by new figures that show a record 1.2 billion tweets were sent last month – a phenomenal total: read all about it at Brandrepublic.com http://tinyurl.com/ybfmu55

If you’re like us and occasionally get a little frustrated when using Twitter that your search or other results get cluttered up with stuff from the other side of the planet, hope is on the horizon but tantalisingly out of reach.

Twitter launched it’s new Local Trends service today to help users keep up to date with what’s happening specifically in their local area. Less good is the fact that it only narrows things down to 13 cities or 6 countries – and Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham, Southampton, Brighton, Reading etc. are surprisingly not included. Only a matter of time, we’re sure.

Following us on Twitter yet? http://twitter.com/AdLibRecruit

The jury is out – is the iPad launched by Mr Jobs of Apple yesterday a winner? Some of us are VERY excited. It’s svelt and stylish;  a lot like Steve Jobs himself.  Then again, there are doubters that this adds anything to the world of tablets. What do you think?

See the future at http://www.apple.com/ipad/

Happy New Year and welcome to our first ever blog of the new decade.

It’s official – 2010 is our year to get social!

Having found time to put down our snow shovels, the Ad Lib team has spent the last few weeks preparing for the launch of our new website and developing new ways for you to get in touch and keep you informed.

And not just content with making recruitment a social event, we’ve also decided to go digital too, not in the TV sense (switch over is March this year for the west – check your granny’s OK), but by building our capabilities in Digital Marketing with two new recruits!

Alongside our well known strengths of creative jobs in marketing, PR and media, don’t forget that our highly knowledgeable Digital Marketing and Techie teams can help you find jobs from .Net Developers and Digital Execs to Project Managers and Web Designers. Please check out the jobs page to get an initial idea of the roles we are handling at the moment.

In the blogs, our team of experts will keep you up to speed on industry news, job market trends, gossip and top tips.

To keep abreast of all our latest news or if you just fancy a natter, please do get in touch!

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