Alarm bells start ringing when I begin a ColaLife blog post about us: the ColaLife organisation itself. However, today I’m making an exception because yesterday (6-May-18) the ColaLife Blog was 10 years old. I’ve reproduced the first blog post below and you realise what a journey we’ve been on. In summary: We got Coca-Cola’s attention […]
ColaLife gets Ads
With thanks to Rich Hurst, ColaLife now has a series of banner adverts! Please add these to your blogs and websites! Click on the ads below to get the full size designs. Basic blog buttons are coming soon. Full instructions on how to incorporate these Ads into your website or blog are provided here. These […]
Coca-Cola Campaign to be discussed on the BBC World Service
On Sunday (13/7/08) at 5am (BST) I’ll be on my bike on my way to BBC Bush House for the Weekend edition of The World Today on the BBC World Service. I’ll be discussing the Coca-Cola Campaign with a panel of people which includes a Professor of Econmic Development from Kenya who will be in […]
One reason why WaterAid are reluctant to engage
There has been a lot of activity going on behind the scenes recently in our efforts to get an international NGO to engage with the Coca-Cola Campaign. As I have indicated on the Facebook Group this is going to be a challenge. The biggest leap forward came yesterday from an extremely helpful person in DfID […]
Follow-up interview with iPM’s Jennifer Tracey
I was very grateful to have been invited to contribute to the inspiring 2gether08 event last Thursday. I attended with two hats on. In my current role as secondee to CLG, I’d gone there to check out my hunch that this is the sort of event and network that local and national Government needs to […]
Coca Cola Campaign nominated for New Media Awards
Just a quick note to thank Paul Webster for nominating the Coca Cola Campaign for this year’s New Media Awards and for others who have dived in and left supporting comments (and the all important rating!). I will keep a role of honour below! Please comment and rate the nomination if you can. Dave Briggs […]
Impromptu interview
My good friend David Wilcox just loves gathering stories on video. Take a look over here on socialreporter.com. We met up today for our regular top-up of “getting all excited about the possibilities Web 2.0 offers” and we got on to the Coca Cola campaign and David pointed a camera at me. This is the […]
Coca Cola song competition announced!
Can you sing or play the guitar? We need you now! Following the Cocal Cola feature on iPM yesterday the podcast was slightly delayed due to legal considerations. It’s now been released but without Eve Graham’s wonderful song!! So what the people at iPM are suggesting is that we all have a go at singing […]
A big thank you everyone at iPM
Eddie Mair | Rupert Allman | George South These guys have worked their socks off this week to support the Coca Cola campaign and the results came together beautifully at 5:30pm today on the iPM programme on Radio 4. In exchange for a simple idea and interview from me they have: Encouraged Coca Cola to […]
Coca-Cola have responded!
Many thanks to Rupert Allman of the BBC for his work contacting Coca Cola over the last few days. This is just in via Rupert from Salvatore Gabola, Global Director Stakeholder Relations at Coca-Cola. I’ll be taking him up on his offer of a chat. We will get there a step at a time. “This […]