Forthcoming Conferences…

I have recently booked to go on a couple of interesting conferences for work:

The Web: A Powerful Recruitment and Communication Tool
Date: Tuesday 20th May 2008,
Organisers: CASE Conference

New Challenges, New Opportunities The Role of New Media in Crisis Communications
Date: Friday 6th June 2008,
Organisers: CIPR Education and Skills Sector Group

The second looks particularly interesting as a guy from Virginia Tech University will be attending to talk about how they dealt with communications around the shooting on the campus in April 2007.

Bad practice: Bimbo

Crowstone Dental Care have a great photo on their homepage of a smiley, blonde girl, with really great teeth – a good image for a dental practice… But visit their website, right-click on the image, ’save image as’ and look at the filename…

Not very professional although rather amusing. Not sure it would be quite enough for a lawsuit for defamation?

There is a chance that when you read this, the image on the Crowstone Dental Care website will have changed (if someone is nice enough to warn them of their error and reprimand the webeditor!) so just in case you missed the joke, the filename was ‘bimbo.jpg’

Lesson: think about what you name a file before uploading it to your website!