The day we 'met' Gordon!
Friday, 1st August 2008 0 Comments
Last Thursday Ali and I were invited to the Catalyst Awards which are designed to recognise and reward businesses that help social communities by using social technology.
Slightly confused? So were we to be honest(!), but we thought we’d go along anyways! The more people we chatted to, the more fantastic websites and unique ideas we came across — click here to view the nominees — our favourite was a website called Slivers of Time which connects people to local employers to gain extra income in any spare hours they may have.
The awards were set in a big room over looking London and standing in the bright morning sunshine on the balcony eating canapés and drinking free orange juice made really made our day. The awards themselves were coordinated by Make Your Mark and launched last year through Gordon Browns new ‘Council on Social Action’ to facilitate social improvement throughout the UK. However, we never thought Gordon Brown would actually be there, so we were surprised to say the least when he stood up and spoke!
After his speaking part Ali and I chatted to him for over an hour about RateMyPlacement and he commented, “RateMyPlacement is one of the best websites I’ve ever seen”. Cheers Gordon.*
*The above sentence may or may not have actually happened, and we may or may not have actually met the PM. RateMyPlacement does not condone lying or the promotion of any false information!
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