Archive for the ‘General’ Category

On Monday 13th May, Tom and I attended the Hotel Summit run by Forum Events at the Radisson Blu in Stansted. Having attended and extremely enjoyed Independent Hotel 12, we were keen to try out another event. The summit has a slightly different concept compared to a normal trade event. You have scheduled meetings arranged [...]

I’m not the biggest fan of horses, they’re tall and have very long legs and being a small Wired Bear, I tend to get trodden on. So when I was taken to Badminton Horse Trials last May bank holiday I was a little nervous. I’ve never been to a Horse Trials before but Helen, the [...]

In the news this week we’ve seen yet more cases of individuals getting into hot water after being caught out on their social media exploits – we stop to question who else may be monitoring what we are up to? Channel 4’s documentary “Don’t Blame Facebook” suggests ‘a silent revolution is taking place in offices, [...]

Based in Central Bristol, Wired Media is a full service digital agency specialising in ecommerce and hotels and offering everything from strategy and concepting through websites to digital marketing. Account Manager, Bristol, salary/benefits depending on experience – see below We have an opening for an Account Manager to join our Bristol team to bridge the [...]

Meeting Minutes Attending 2.8 Hours Later: a zombie-themed, city-wide game as part of an Interesting Games weekend in Bristol hosted by Igfest. 7.30pm Hand in tickets at St. Nic’s Market, panic about lack of preparation for zombie apocalypse (Lack of fitness, no water, no energy bars, just bags of nervous excitement) 7.32pm Seriously start to [...]

Being a brave Wired Bear I joined three burly men to conquer the three peaks of the UK: Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon, to raise money for Red International. Read my diary of pain but also delight as we discover the three peaks challenge.

Tablets are widely known to be on the rise in popularity, and research released in June highlights that tablets are taking an increasingly higher share of online traffic. In fact between Q1 2011 and Q1 2012, website traffic to eCommerce sites from tablets grew by an astounding 348% and now exceeds total smartphone visits – [...]

Facebook’s iOS app has a reputation for being very slow. Users looking to browse their friends’ photos or read status updates have for long been frustrated at the slow speed for which it is delivered to their iPhone, iPad or iPod, but this is set to change. The Facebook app is being rebuilt to give [...]

On the eleventh of June Apple announced its next generation MacBook Pro, equipped with a brand new “Retina Display” that is also featured on Apple’s iPhone 4/4S and new iPad. The new screen means that the premium MacBook Pro models will sport a pixel resolution of 2880 x 1800, a significant jump from 1680 x [...]

It seems like a long time ago that we were sat sat on Weymouth beach enjoying the sun, sipping pina coladas and getting through gallons and gallons of sun cream . . . about six years ago! Even though the summer was a whitewash we managed to keep busy and have some fun whilst we [...]