As the self-appointed Christmas king of NixonMcInnes, I wanted to let you know what we’re doing over the festive break. As a team, we’re largely taking some well-earned holiday after what has been a brilliant year; moving offices, hiring several new team members and working with super clients. 2010 is going to be an even bigger year for us, and the industry as a whole as more and more people wake up to power of digital and the implications of living in a networked world. As an agency we’re keen to remain at the forefront of innovation, bringing cool stuff to our clients and keeping ourselves excited by never becoming complacent, and a proper mulled-wine fueled break will enable us to hit the ground running in January.
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Ross wrote this on 22.12.09 – 1 comment
It's filed in the Funny, NixonMcInnes, Off topic box
Hello dear reader,
Please forgive me: I’ve been doing quite a bit of job ad-type writing this morning, and feel the need to break into a unperfect storm of bullet pointed facts.
Let’s see how it goes shall we? You’re probably not even reading this bit now are you – you’ve already skipped the bullet points with yer fancy-fast internet browsy reading skillz.
- And….GO!
- Whatever it is, NixonMcInnes is different
- Some people think we are an ‘online PR agency’
- Some people think we are a web design and build agency
- We actually think we’re multi-disciplinary
- We have 5 practice areas: Strategy, Communications, Research, Design & Build and Culture
- The labels for each practice will evolve, but this is our plan for now…
- Practice areas combine and overlap – our clients benefit from both depth (an out and out PR expert, or a down ‘n’ dirty Brand professional, or a very clever technologist) *and* breadth
- Our Research practice is valued by our clients and by our own team – it’s amazing working from original and substantial insights
- It’s also blooming exciting – how Market Research is evolving and reconsidering itself in the light of the social web
- We don’t wait for traditional marketing services industries to reinvent themselves – we try to just get on with it
- So we’re looking for a proper clever, ambitious leader to join our Senior team and head up the research practice.
- Job ad here (and here, and here)
Here’s some other blurbage I wrote earlier:
Rise up and become part of the changing face of the market research and wider marketing services world!
This is a rare opportunity to join our unique multi-disciplinary consultancy working with some of the biggest, most significant brands in the world. Our Mission is to help these companies engage in more meaningful and useful ways with their customers by harnessing the rapidly evolving social web.
We are expanding and creating a new board-level role to build and head-up our Research Practice. The successful candidate will stretch themselves amongst our open, democratic company culture and smart diverse team based in Brighton the digital media hub of the UK.
The overall purpose of the role is to continue to build our unique and profitable professional research practice by:
- Leading the way in discovering how to blend digital social media and research.
- Selling in and then profitably delivering measurable business value to clients.
- Providing research insights that help clients understand their challenges and address them both tactically, and by building wider programmes that solve their problems.
- Nurturing and growing our relationships with a small number of clients.
To apply, read this bit and follow the instructions.
One other thing, out of respect for the people we meet and our colleagues we take hiring seriously and try to be really rigorous with our hiring. There will be effort on both sides – just to be clear from the off.
No agencies, thank you.
Will McInnes wrote this on 03.12.09 – 1 comment
It's filed in the Brighton, Recruitment box
Incredible things are happening in the world, doncha think?
I was inspired hearing about the work that Practical Action do when we were there last week.
I was blown away to read about Dubai’s jinks.
I am excited about the machinations of big media and that simultaneous rebirth and endgame.
The tectonics of politics continue to grind away.
The world feels like it’s spinning faster and faster to me.
What future are we spinning towards? One future to familiarise ourselves with and think about is a harder, more challenging world.
Whilst the media coaxes us with messages of a recovery, there is a different dashboard to at least be aware of…
Ingredients for a different dashboard, to ’see’ a different future
- Take Umair Haque’s truer-than-ever macropalypse. (Short version: the economics and business practices of yesterday are totally broken and everything must change).
- Add John Robb’s mindblowing Global Guerillas journal and text book. (Short version: through precisely exploiting modern society and its networks and technology a ‘terrorist’ can generate an ROI inconcievable in yesterday’s world)
- Sprinkle some #collapsonomics and resilient futures, with hexayurts and all. (Short version: while some people speculate about a more volatile future, these guys are actually getting down to the nitty gritty of ‘what to do about a crazy future’.)
- And finish with a garnish of grassroots activism from Dan McQuillan’s link sharing on Twitter. (Short version: lots of different sorts of people around the world are being treated unfairly, and technology innovation and ‘groking’ can help them get their voice heard and their changes made, sometimes…)
In my view our job as citizens and co-workers and as a company and family members and whatever context is to create better futures for ourselves and the world. If you agree, and that’s something you are interested in, in doing a good job, then you should prepare yourselve for a variety of futures, including this harder one too.
Personally, I am optimistic. But whatever the future, it definitely isn’t going to be easy.
Will McInnes wrote this on 01.12.09 – 3 comments
It's filed in the Business, Democracy, Social networks, future box
