The Precious Awards 2014

by Babaco Media | Apr 25, 2014 | Communication

Sometimes, it’s hard to be a woman,’ sang Tammy Wynette, decades before The Spice Girls hinted that being a woman might be fun, too. And despite knowing that the next few months are going to see an awful lot of hard work as part of the organizing team of an awards...

3 Top Tips for Happy Collaborations

by Babaco Media | Apr 20, 2014 | Communication

Busy times at PS Programmes Towers: the contracts are signed, the editors are furiously blue-pencilling adjectives, and the inky-sleeved printers are awaiting the first pages of copy to be sent down for typesetting. We are writing a book. ‘We’ is crucial....

Fillers – how to avoid saying um and er

by Babaco Media | Mar 28, 2014 | Communication

It’s, um, like, y’know? Every eye is on you, the microphone is live, and the stage lights are so bright, you can’t see beyond the first line of the audience. But you can see the floor manager twirling their finger in the little circle that the world...

Tweet in Pique

by Babaco Media | Mar 14, 2014 | Communication

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Vine, Google+ (if that’s still a thing)… The beauty of social networking is that your message can be up online for all to see at a speed impeded only by your typing speed. The downside is that once published, it will leave a...

Poker Faces

by Babaco Media | Feb 28, 2014 | Communication

The racist, xenophobic, and thoroughly buffoonish Major from Fawlty Towers once pronounced that he ‘hates Germans…love women.’ ‘What about German women?’ asks Connie Booth, mischievously. ‘Good card players!’ is the...