With summer well under way, Aurora is making the most of the remaining (hopefully) long, hot, balmy nights. Since last month’s top 20 newsletter, our summer campaign, ‘We Hate Social Media’, has been in full swing and is now available to view at the above link. Still to come to our YouTube channel is the [...]
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Reading through some of the coverage last week on the International AIDS Conference got me thinking about a poster presentation, which I did on the disease at university. I would be intrigued to read the content again as I suspect the research included would now be very much out of date.
The number of articles, [...]
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Aurora has dived into the social media ocean head first and can’t wait for the ripples to reach you. We recently posted six home-made videos on our own YouTube channel, ironically named We Hate Social Media. At Aurora we don’t hate social media, far from it in fact. Some of us are positively geeky about [...]
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Ten percent of the UK suffers from trypanophobia, or to you and me, needle phobia - defined as the irrational fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles.
This condition may seem fairly harmless to the 90 percent of us that aren’t affected, but for over six million people, needle phobia can pose a real [...]
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I want to share my insights on the crazy world of smoking and the business of getting people to stop, officially known as smoking cessation. I am well placed to write this post because not only did I work on a prescription smoking cessation medicine and its European launch for two years, I also supported [...]
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This weekend I entered the world of Clown Town - a massive, indoor adventure playground for kids where weirdly there are no clowns… Arriving there at 10.00 am on a Saturday morning is always a worrying start to the weekend, but the big rotter had been invited to a double party, so it had to [...]
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One of the most popular viral campaigns to date is weaving its magic all over the internet. It sparked conversation at the #hcsmeu tweet-up yesterday and followed up a discussion about healthcare communications and viral campaigns that the group had a few weeks ago (which I wrote up in this blog post).
The campaign du jour [...]
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Note to self: must do better at parenting. In one week, I have missed parents evening, reversed into a nursery workers car and been told by the big rotter’s teacher that I should really try and remember the twice weekly gym kit, as they have been regularly having to lend her sports clothes from the [...]
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Just got an email from Cancer Research UK to let me know that they have a new advert that will air first in the break during Coronation Street (a popular soap here in the UK) on Monday 12 July. On the charity’s blog post about the ad they ask for feedback on the advert and how [...]
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Aurora sustainability achievements recognised at Better Climate for Camden EECO awards
Posted on 06. Jul, 2010 by phaedrus.
Last week, Aurora attended the Better Climate for Camden Environmental Excellence in Camden Organisations (EECO) Awards 2010 ceremony. Many like-minded organisations from the London Borough of Camden gathered at Centre Point for a pleasant evening of sharing ideas about and gaining recognition for environmental achievements in business and buildings management.
Aurora was up for an award [...]
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Where there is smoke there is desire
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Aurora is turning green...
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World Cup fever begins in Camden
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Cut people some slack *please*
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Bacon on test
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Dr Trisha Macnair: Biggest problem, as you point out, is that those m...
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Natalie Uhlarz: Hi Neil I saw this on the tube too and was so cap...
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Phaedrus: It was a pleasure Andrew. Thanks for your contribu...
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Ed Purkis: Thanks for following up your comment with this pos...
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Andrew Spong: It's 'hick some you', people! HICK. SOME. YOU! ...
