Here are all of the posts tagged ‘Eurostar’.

Girly geek shopping – live!

by Sandrine Plasseraud in News on 14 March 2009 at 12:20

Today I’m taking part in a live girly geek event organised by Eurostar. They’ve invited 80 French and Belgian girls over to London to shop till they drop, and then they’ll be meeting up with 40 girls from London (including me) for tea time refreshment at the Berkeley hotel. The idea, of course, is to get the message out to French and Belgian girls (and boys) in general about how quick and easy it is to pop over to London by Eurostar for a cheap shopping trip, now the pound/euro exchange rate is, shall we say, more in their favour.

All of the girls are tweeting, flickring and geolocating their experiences in real time, and you can follow the action live via a rather nice Google Maps/Twitter/Flickr mash-up they’ve created especially for the day:

Girly geek shopping - live!

Eurostar of course is no stranger to social media – in fact, Robin created the Voice of a City blog for them back in 2005, where you can follow the exploits of 10 Parisians as they live their lives (check out the Eating and Drinking or Shopping categories for a bit of inspiration) – the insight being that you have a better time in a foreign city when you’ve got friends to show you around.

Anyway – I’m looking forward to meeting everyone later and having a proper English afternoon tea!

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Welcoming Chris Applegate to the team

by Nathan McDonald in News on 5 January 2009 at 11:32

Chris Applegate

It’s always good to start the year off as you mean to go on, and that is exactly what we’re doing today. This morning We Are Social is bigger and better than when we downed tools for the Christmas break – we’re very happy to announce that Chris Applegate has joined the team.

We’re always on the lookout for the right people, but it’s hard find to the right mix of knowledge, experience and most importantly enthusiasm for what we do. With Chris, however, it was obvious.

Chris studied Computer Science at Cambridge and then went on to get a Master’s from Edinburgh. He joins us from Outside Line, where he was their Community Marketing Manager, working on social media campaigns for LG, Nike, Eurostar and Vodafone, as well as the famous Berocca Blogger Relief campaign.

You also may know him from some of his extracurricular activities – his personal blog qwghlm.co.uk is ranked 16th in Wikio’s list of the UK’s top Technology blogs, he captured November’s zeitgeist in the UK with LOL Griffin and this satirical YouTube mash-up, has dispensed well received new business advice and, with his jaunty fedora, is a well known member of London’s social media scene.

We’re really pleased to have Chris on board, I hope you’ll join me in welcoming him to the team.

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