It’s been a while coming but I am now pleased to be able to say I will be joining Wakefield-based GREEN Communications.
I start tomorrow and will be working with clients across traditional media as well as developing the firm’s use of social media.
One foray into the medium already undertaken by GREEN has been their successful blog in support of client Wensleydale Creamery’s campaign to get EU Protected Designation of Origin.
More such projects offering clients the full social media toolkit are on their way.
I’ve been a bit slow with this announcement and was prompted by GREEN’s Director of Media, Ian Green who has posted about my appointment over at Green Gathering.
I have known GREEN’s MD, Andy Green, for a little while and really rate him as a practitioner. Ian has recently started blogging is dead keen on building social media into client’s work. It’s going to be a really exciting time. There will be some challenges but that’s what I’m looking forward to… oh, and working for one of the UK’s leading small consultancies (according to PR Week) as well.
I was telling my fiancee the other night that 10 months ago I went to a conference and learnt about blogging. Eight months ago I started a blog about PR. Now I’ve landed myself a flippin’ job working out social (and some traditional!) media strategies. Who would have thunk it?
Three things I am looking forward to getting used to:
- Working in Britain’s only mooing building;
- Explaining that despite the shared surname, Managing Director, Andy Green and Ian Green, are not related;
- Spelling the word GREEN with caps (will this need to change due to the whole netiquette ‘caps = shouting’ thing?).
Come on Simon – Pimp us up a bit!
Congratulations on your effective networking; I’m sure this will be a good move for you. (And I’m glad I’m no longer required to keep it secret.)
Congratulations, Simon. I am sure you will do really well – good luck.
Simon – great news, well done.
Congratulations on the new job. I am actually one of the (undoubtedly many
) people who have read your new boss’s book ‘Creativity in PR’. But since he might be reading this blog too, I’m not going to reveal here what I thought of it. At one point I even thought of dedicating a post to it. In retrospect, it is a good thing I didn’t.
. I actually quite liked it, to be honest. Nothing world-shocking or utterly novel, but an excellent overview of what creativity can do in a (PR) firm and how it can be stimulated/implemented (and quite worth the £16.99 it cost 
). So I guess GREEN should make a great employer. Good luck!
Okay: the last three sentences were a joke – you can start breathing again
Congrats Simon. And congrats to GREEN Communications too.
Congrats, sir – I hope they appreciate how big a talent they’ve scored. Bet they do!