Communications Archives

Tea & Toast

10th July 2019 / by Jan / Business, Communications, Community / 0 comments

We gathered together a small community of creatives, adventurers, strategists and explorers from the creative, digital and tech sectors in and around Winchester for Tea & Toast. A simple idea, but connecting people, over food and building relationship is one of our values at Autumn Live. We absolutely loved it, and we think the community […]

How WhatsApp has revolutionised event comms

31st October 2018 / by Jan / Business, Communications, Connection, Social Media / 4 comments

“Make sure you sign your radio in and out each day” used to be a phrase I would use all the time in my event briefings. There has been the occasional last minute panic when we thought we’d forgotten to order radios – just to clarify though – It’s never happened. Just think of not […]

What do we actually do at Autumn Live?

21st September 2017 / by Jan / Business, Communications, Connection, Digital Events, Entrepreneurship, Event Planning, Eventprofs, Events, Marketing, Mental Health, Social Marketing, Social Media / 0 comments

I’ll begin with a story; before I started Autumn Live I once worked for Picturehouses as the Marketing and Business Development Manager. One day, one of my children came home from school saying they had to tell everyone at school what their parents did for a job, “Oh that’s interesting sweetie, what did you say […]

What is inbound marketing and why do you need to know?

20th April 2017 / by Jan / Communications, Marketing, Social Marketing, Social Media / 0 comments

Inbound marketing, is a concept first introduced to me by Gary Vay-ner-Chuk – I have to spell his name out like this as it helps me to get it right, it’s also something he does in one of his books – the Thank You Economy. Here it is in the book pile a while back.. […]

6 ways to capitalise on social media at events

22nd June 2016 / by Jan / Communications, Events, Social Media / 0 comments

6 ways to capitalise on social media at events 1 PLATFORM Firstly decide on the platform/s relevant to your event. Each event will have its own demographic and own set of users. I have organised events thinking the 35-55 print-buying market were into Twitter only to find no-one using Twitter or using the hashtag (and […]

Constantly checking your email?

18th December 2015 / by Jan / Communications / 0 comments

Remote working? We all hear and read and see all the time messages about how much we are connected to our devices, we are not switching off, we are sleeping less, we are more stressed, more anxious, more connected to our work than ever. Who else wants to be in this boat? I thought […]