Matthew Watson may love lemons, but he is no lemon. He is an ambitious final year Public Relations with Media student hoping to graduate from the University of Huddersfield in 2008.
At present Matthew is taking part in an online internship with marketing guru Seth Godin. The innovative internship sees Matthew collaborating with nearly one hundred other marketing students from around the world on projects to promote the Squidoo.com knowledge sharing website.
Next month he will be starting out as a public relations consultant at Rainier PR in London. He will be working with tech clients such as Toshiba and Virgin Media.
Last year he carried out four months of work experience with the lovely people at Concept Communications, a public relations consultancy in Southport. During his placement Matthew worked with big clients ranging from Makro, to Barratt Homes, writing and distributing press releases as well as researching journalists and compiling media lists using Media Atlas. He also assisted with creating and editing content for client magazines and produced evaluative financial reports detailing how much media coverage had been gained and how much it was worth.
At University Matthew has been actively involved with the student newspaper, Huddersfield Student. He started the quirky Smelia Dith cookery column, which he wrote in addition to a number of other articles, ranging from the plight of intensively farmed chickens to the launch of a new University initative. As part of his studies, Matthew has implemented innovative marketing campaigns that have made good use of viral videos, podcasts, blogs, social networking sites and guerilla pr stunts. At one point he even got interviewed by Bailrigg FM in Lancaster!
When not extolling the benefits of citrus fruits and public relations, he can be found under water and swimming like a fish. Speaking of fish, Matthew enjoys keeping them. He is the proud owner of Cassie the large Ryukin goldfish, Posh Kenneth the common goldfish, Anwar the plecostomus loach, and Tony and Michelle the lemon tetras. He is also a fan of Skins, the Channel 4 TV series, if you hadn't guessed.
In those brief moments when Matthew is not updating his blog or gazing into his fish tank he is often relaxing with a nice, hot cup of Earl Grey tea. Yum.
A little bit concerned by climate change and his effect on the environment, he tries his best to be eco friendly and regularly plants seeds to gobble up the nasty carbon dioxide and keep him entertained. The green fingered so and so is currently growing grape vines, orchids, meteor peas, an apple tree, two lemon trees and a giant redwood, which should look quite impressive in a few hundred years.
Matthew would love to tell you about his passion for the Mighty Boosh, that incident with the z-list celebrity in Germany, and which TV chef was the inspiration* for his Smelia Dith cookery column but unfortunately he's run out of space. If you want to find out these things and more exciting titbits please feel free to contact him on: m.watson@m-p-w.co.uk
*It wasn't Gordon Ramsay.
DISCLAIMER:
The views and opinions shared in this website, blog and microblog are my own and do not represent those of my past, present or future employers.
At present Matthew is taking part in an online internship with marketing guru Seth Godin. The innovative internship sees Matthew collaborating with nearly one hundred other marketing students from around the world on projects to promote the Squidoo.com knowledge sharing website.
Next month he will be starting out as a public relations consultant at Rainier PR in London. He will be working with tech clients such as Toshiba and Virgin Media.
Last year he carried out four months of work experience with the lovely people at Concept Communications, a public relations consultancy in Southport. During his placement Matthew worked with big clients ranging from Makro, to Barratt Homes, writing and distributing press releases as well as researching journalists and compiling media lists using Media Atlas. He also assisted with creating and editing content for client magazines and produced evaluative financial reports detailing how much media coverage had been gained and how much it was worth.
At University Matthew has been actively involved with the student newspaper, Huddersfield Student. He started the quirky Smelia Dith cookery column, which he wrote in addition to a number of other articles, ranging from the plight of intensively farmed chickens to the launch of a new University initative. As part of his studies, Matthew has implemented innovative marketing campaigns that have made good use of viral videos, podcasts, blogs, social networking sites and guerilla pr stunts. At one point he even got interviewed by Bailrigg FM in Lancaster!
When not extolling the benefits of citrus fruits and public relations, he can be found under water and swimming like a fish. Speaking of fish, Matthew enjoys keeping them. He is the proud owner of Cassie the large Ryukin goldfish, Posh Kenneth the common goldfish, Anwar the plecostomus loach, and Tony and Michelle the lemon tetras. He is also a fan of Skins, the Channel 4 TV series, if you hadn't guessed.
In those brief moments when Matthew is not updating his blog or gazing into his fish tank he is often relaxing with a nice, hot cup of Earl Grey tea. Yum.
A little bit concerned by climate change and his effect on the environment, he tries his best to be eco friendly and regularly plants seeds to gobble up the nasty carbon dioxide and keep him entertained. The green fingered so and so is currently growing grape vines, orchids, meteor peas, an apple tree, two lemon trees and a giant redwood, which should look quite impressive in a few hundred years.
Matthew would love to tell you about his passion for the Mighty Boosh, that incident with the z-list celebrity in Germany, and which TV chef was the inspiration* for his Smelia Dith cookery column but unfortunately he's run out of space. If you want to find out these things and more exciting titbits please feel free to contact him on: m.watson@m-p-w.co.uk
*It wasn't Gordon Ramsay.
DISCLAIMER:
The views and opinions shared in this website, blog and microblog are my own and do not represent those of my past, present or future employers.
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