Ever needed answers and inspiration of what to do for lunch near Team Rubber’s HQ on King St? There’ll be no unanswered questions floating round at 1:10pm any longer, the results are in:
Yup, so if you do see a poor soul trudging towards Sainsbury’s for a “free packet of crisps” with their “£2.85″ sandwich, please do send them to this post.
Lunchometer was made by our lovely local friends at Thought Den who will also let you create your own.
A very cool idea from local agency Pixillion led to them making the lovely site The Work Cycle. They have some pretty big agencies on there and some really nice photos of pretty bikes in proper use. An early morning start with Matt, Corwin, Ben, Tom and Ally polished our submission which today has gone into the site. Lovely.
VAN is recruiting for a Bristol-based Campaign Manager. The role will involve:
Client handling & sales (daily)
Writing proposal documents to support the sales team. Developing and closing inbound warm leads, working to achieve the monthly sales target.
Account management duties, including:
Campaign Operations (daily)
Creating and monitoring campaigns, creating media bookings and ensuring targets are met for media spend.
Reporting on campaign success – adding detail to the client dashboard during the campaign then delivering a final report at the end.
Publishers (when necessary)
Developing and maintaining relationships with publishers, including research, recruitment and account handling.
Marketing (occasional)
Assisting with marketing collateral including DM material, blog posts and presentations. Updating direct marketing lists with new clients.
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What you’re like
You’re probably not “well-rounded” (because it’s hard to be exceptional at everything). But you will definitely need:
Interested? Feel free to read more, but to apply mail Ally with a covering letter outlining why you think you are suitable for the position and where your strengths lie along with a 2 page CV.
Following the Vision Bristol warm up event on Wednesday afternoon at The Arnolfini I was particularly interested in exploring Poke’s idea of ‘Creative Process’ here at Team Rubber.
Different individuals in the office do of course work in different ways. Ben for example aids his creative process through biscuits – and has subsequently been renamed to ‘Biscuit Ben’.
Biscuit Ben
At Team Rubber we are always ensuring people feel comfortable in their working environment and Ben feels most comfortable when in his own creative working environment:
For more information on how biscuits can aid creativity please visit Ben’s Biscuit Blog.
Corwin makes a start
As a great man once said “a place for everything and everything in its place” and I think I once said “a tidy office is a productive office”. However, I have overheard discussions to the tune of “a militantly organised office is a boring office”.
So here at Team Rubber we like a healthy blend of the two. Today Andy decided he wanted a project, and tidying with Lorna, Corwin and me was the one we chose for this afternoon. Some pictures of it for proof that we had a productive Monday and made the world a better place:
The work and chaos before. Sandwiches and happy work after.
Oh and if that looked a bit too easy you can see our ‘to-do pile’ that was created. It didn’t make Tom too happy:
All things an office needs but probably doesn't want all that much.
Now competitive blogging is not really something I have encountered before, until I saw a report compiled by the Ministry of Insights entitled ‘Who are the Best Agency Bloggers in Bristol – 2010?’.
Our Team Rubber blog has been ranked #1 out of 152 of the Bristol Media companies included! Now we need to note that this is only part one of the report and is the quantity based section (we had 109 posts), but it’s still good to win when you didn’t know you were competing!
This started a little inter-agency rivalry with Gez (from Delib) noticing that they had posted 140 times in 2010, so could actually have beaten Team Rubber. Over at the Viral Ad Network we managed a lowly 101 posts, and Rubber Republic is yet to comment 
Personally I find that regular blogging is a tough task to maintain – client work always seems to get in the way! But I do think its worth trying to be disciplined. At VAN we find that blogging, alongside other social outreach, is a great way of generating new business and attracting relevant people to our site.
I’ll leave it at that before I type myself into a New Years Resolution!
Tweets here. http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23bristolhackday
Pictures below…
Big Paper: an open data essential
Best seats, best view #1
Very South By Southwest
Arduino. Proper wires and things.
Best seats, best view #2
Processing Your Freedom data – matrix style
Generating Haiku from Your Freedom data…
Colston Hall – good location for this
Pencil – my favourite tool
Thinking up ideas
Start the day
This morning we had a room full of multi-talented front-end developers, back-end developers, designers, journalists, bloggers, tweeters and publishers, all ready to share their ideas and get making…..
So why have a Hack Day?
“Because it’s fun to make stuff, good to work with the council and talk, tweet and blog about it”. Mr Andy P.
Hack day can explore opening up data the council has and doing more with it, Hack Day is about using data in ways that can benefit people in the city. Bristol City Council.
There has been no shortage of great ideas so far today around different data sets and the creative ways to utilize and represent information.
Teams have been formed and are currently scattered around Colston Hall to work on and develop ideas and digital tools.
Some of the main ideas so far include:
Doing more with the ‘Your Freedom’ Dialogue data the government has now released
Ideas include making the data simpler to understand, running an analysis to discover the most discussed ideas and even condensing these down into poetry.
Mapping out the creative hot spots in Bristol
Looking at Bristol City Council environmental data on shopping trolleys being dumped in rivers and water quality data
Or even a rather unique idea which combines the two, such as creating a mobile game involving getting a shopping trolley home without it going into the river (including info on water quality of course!).
Using Bristol bus data and developing a web app that draws upon live Bristol Bus information
This would allow users to discover where the nearest bus is and when it’s due. Ideas have even been discussed about creating a ‘hyper-local’ bus route newspaper.
We will re-gather at 5 to review the demo’s and prototypes of all the ideas being discussed. Exciting stuff!
We’re here in the Colston Hall
all day, so feel free to drop by and see what’s going on.
If not, then we’re tweeting under #bristolhackday, and will be blogging more too…
At Teamrubber, i’ve taken it upon myself to reward everyone’s birthday by making replica cakes of the things people love! I started this as a way to practise different techniques to improve my cake making abilities and maybe one day make them for events or special occasions. They don’t always go to plan, but I learn from the mistakes and move on to the next idea. Here is a selection of my favourites:
You can see more Teamrubber cakes here.
