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Team Rubber FC challenging for honour(s)

Alex Pitkin - December 4th, 2009

Following a string of good results and pretty consistent set of players, Team Rubber has been holding down the second spot on their Soccer-Sixes-Pro-Star-FA-AnotherSponsorProbably premier Thursday 6-a-side league. The one we all know and love:

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Team Rubber FC in second place

We’re currently behind the holders and previous season’s winners and the-season-before-that’s winners and the season-before-that-one’s winners and some more wins, Brucey Boys. It just so happens we’re playing them in 2 weeks in what has been dubbed as “a game between first and second on the 17th of December”.

Adam Cardew, Team Rubber FC’s newest recruit from Delib, sums it up perfectly: “I wish I had some new size 9 football boots so that I could play but I haven’t got time to buy any”.

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Wine Tasting @ Averys

Katrina Percy - November 12th, 2009

Some of Team Rubber and friends attended a wine tasting night at Averys on Tuesday 10th, and it was very well received. Especially by me and Laura.

When we arrived we were greeted with a warm smile and a cold glass of champagne or two. Followed by a blind tasting of three stunning white wines accompanied with explanations of what to expect and why. It was interesting because not only did we have to work out the grape, but we were also challenged to figure out which country they were from and the price. Thankfully we had options for the first two questions, otherwise we would have been there all night. The rest of the evening was taken up by cheese, pate and bread and then the tasting of three red wines.

Along with the points awarded from the tasting we had a mini multiple choice quiz and I was overjoyed when my team, which was the smallest made up of myself, Alan and Tom called ‘Peach honey and the silks’ won. We were presented with a bottle of red Bordeaux.

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Santa ClaUSB is coming.

Kirk Hullis - November 9th, 2009

Last year saw us secret-santaing mugs to each other and let’s face it, it has made the office a better place. Rory’s eternal struggle to pick between Jimmy Saville or Obama, Ian’s rude mug and Ally’s christmas-music spectacular have brightened many a beverage in their short time in the office.

This year we’re turning to something altogether a bit simpler to organise by no less impressive. If you’ve ever coveted Tim’s USB-powered mug warmer or smirked at Michaela’s 4-port flower shaped USB hub then you’ll enjoy taking part in this year’s (kind of) secret santa.

We’re doing it lucky dip style this year, just before we head out for the Christmas Dinner. If you’d like to take part then all you need to do is buy a USB device for about a fiver, wrap it and drop it into the lucky dip box/bin that Jake and Katrina are making. If you put one in, then you’ll be able to take one out on the 22nd December. Easy-peasy.

I know what I’d like to get….

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More Cycling promotion from the man

Alex Pitkin - October 28th, 2009

Storing, changing, buying, repairing and inspiring

I just noticed on the Guardian site that the Government has recently launched a new cycling incentive on top of their already successful (at Team Rubber anyway) Cyclescheme tax saving initiative.

What they seem to be doing is not to offer any more savings on buying a bike – this will remain the same – but offering more support and kudos for companies to actually provide the infrastructure required to allows employees to cycle to work everyday. They are segmenting this infrastructure into 5 main areas:

Storing
Changing
Buying
Repairing
Inspiring

You can read all about all of these on the Cycle to Work Guarantee site.

Now while these are all great words that would make any type of travel a more successful experience, what I am personally interested in is the ‘Inspiring’ bit.

This is the part that I find the most difficult and have put the most effort into in getting people out of cars and onto bikes. You can read what they’re proposing on the site and all I should really say is good luck!

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iFeatures: launches today in Bristol

Andy Parkhouse - October 21st, 2009

This is important for Bristol: three low budget feature films that will put Bristol stories on the big screen. It’s innovative, collaborative and awesome.

iFeatures. Launches today, Colston Hall. More soon.

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igFest Champions!

Matt Golding - September 24th, 2009

We’d like to thank our parents, god, the pope, and …ah man it was a tough…but we won!

Last weekend, Team Rubber took part in loads of fantastic games at igFest - the Interesting Games Festival, in Bristol, and we’re super chuffed to have beaten the cream of Bristol’s creative agencies to win the Bristols Biggest Player prize for top performing agency!

Rainbow Rain!

This is a very prestigious award, gained through the dedicated exploits of our team evading the walking dead, hunting moose, throwing paint, reporting ficticious news and racing round Queens Square with lit fireworks. Beating off stiff competition from Aardman, we just manage to pip them to the post scoring 85 points to their 80.

Big thanks to the whole igFest crew – we had a blast! You rock our world and we’ll definitely be back next year in full force. We promise to bring costumes next time as-well.

Il Noche De Los Muertos

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How to embarrass your work mates 101

Katrina Percy - September 1st, 2009

I have to say how sorry I am to Jake for what I did to him at this years Shambala festival. Though it was funny as hell!

Jake’s in a band called LUND and they did an amazing set, well done, the response was unforgettable. Therefore, as I am so proud I promise never to bring a ‘Jake we love you’ sign to one of your gigs ever again or shout out that I want your babies lol. Hopefully you can forgive me… and Jenny

‘Jake performing’

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‘The crowed goes wild’

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‘Jake, Kat loves you’

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‘Jake, Jenny loves you too’

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Bristol Balloon Sprint

Andy Parkhouse - August 7th, 2009

As I write this we’re hosting a Plone Sprint on the first floor of our building. So what is Plone, and what is a Plone Sprint?

Plone is a powerful and successful piece of open source software, used to build web content management systems and other sophisticated web applications.

A typical media image of open source software might be that it is built entirely by individual volunteers. That’s often the case, but in many cases open source software is also developed by commercial companies collaborating.

By sharing work, and openly licensing the software, commercial businesses can achieve goals that they would simply be unable to achieve alone. As an example, replicating something like Plone might take a single company several years or more, and cost £millions.

Plone is developed by both passionate individuals, and companies who then use the platform to undertake projects for paying clients.

Much Plone development takes place in a distributed way, with contributors working remotely on code. However nothing beats face-to-face collaboration, so the Plone community organise sprint events where small groups focus on designing and implementing new features.

Team Rubber are avid Plone users, so we’re very happy to be hosting the Bristol Balloon Sprint, and welcome 25 or so developers into our building. Have fun!

Follow the sprint on Twitter with #balloonsprint

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Rubber Republic talking at Rushes Soho Shorts festival

Ian Ochiltree - July 28th, 2009

Our Matt Golding is talking at two events at Rushes Soho Shorts festival tomorrow.

One is the Encounters Contentertainment talk (Soho Film Lab, 13:00) which is a private event invite only for ad industry creative directors chaired by Colin Marrs, editor of digital at Campaign (see above flyer).

The other is a public event on the future of short film at Apple Store Regent Street from 5pm – 7pm.

Details:

CONTENTERTAINMENT ’30 SEC LATER DEBATE’ (Vicky, Matt, Irfon & Adam)
12am – meet at the Soho Film Lab, 8-14 Meard Street, London W1F 0EQ
http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=529623&y=181041&z=0&sv=W1F+0EQ&st=2&pc=W1F+0EQ&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf
1pm – start
3pm – finish

APPLE iStore ‘The Future of Film’ (Matt speaking, Irfon chairing)
4.30 – meet up at the Apple iStore, 235 Regent Street, London W1B 2ET
http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/regentstreet/map/
5.00 – start
7.00 – finish
It’s outlined on the Apple website – http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/regentstreet/

GENERAL MAP
See the map on page 71 of the Soho Shorts brochure – http://quicktime.rushes.co.uk/2009_rssf_web.pdf

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Online Marketing Show 2009

Jenny Hardy - July 1st, 2009

Largely the show was geared up for large companies with marketing departments, who wish to explore and learn new ideas. That’s not to say there were not nuggets of interest and new things to learn.

Despite at some times unbearable heat, Adam and I managed three talks and a look around the stands.

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The most interesting talk was by Amelia Torode, Partner and Head of Digital Strategy at VCCP. Amelia discussed the “Compare The Meerkat” campaign. Amelia highlighted the big change from traditional Ad campaigns where it was important to make them ‘sticky’ to remain in the consciousness of the audience, now a successful social media campaign is about ‘Spreadability’.

Love or hate Aleksandr Orlov, follow him on twitter or be his friend on Facebook. The core idea and strong narrative spread across platforms, was key to the success and charm of the campaign. One problem was due to issues with measurability. I have a good guess that many agencies and clients have similar issues with social marketing.

Although Compare the Market had measurable success, with its positioning in the market and many other benefits i.e. increased sales, increased traffic and reduction of costs etc. There is little research and evidence that consumers engaging with social media campaigns will necessarily engage with the product. Will being friends with Aleksander make you a customer of Compare the Market?

Amelia will be starting a research project with the IAB. I will be very interested in the results, as will many others.

There was a general consensus throughout the talks, that good conversations start with questions, so in the words of Adam “ Interesting! How you can’t kill the meerket? What could be the end strategy?

Tags: Aleksandr Orlov, Amelia Torode, Compare The Meerkat, facebook, marketing, Olympia, Online, PR, social media, spreadability, sticky, twitter, VCCP
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