Having a bad day at work and tempted to tell callers exactly what’s on your mind? For many people, indulging in a spot of under-the-breath mumbling is enough to relieve tension, but for one school in Australia, their infuriation at pupil absences and lack of parental support was eloquently spat all over their answering machine. In fact, a whole auto attendant message was dedicated to making their feelings very clear! 
Auto attendant messaging that packs a punch
Music and moods | Audio branding fun
Discover music based on your mood
Finding the right song for that great weather just got a little easier. We’ve recently stumbled across Musicovery.com, a clever site that allows you to find and listen to music based on its era, genre and tempo — and most importantly, your mood.
PH Media Group sponsors cup final winners
Fletcher Moss Rangers F.C. Under 13s, sponsored by PH Media Group, won the prestigious Manchester County Sunday Cup on Sunday 28th of March. They beat rivals Northside JFC, in what was a thrilling encounter.
PH Media Group – proud sponsors of Fletcher Moss Rangers F.C.
Fletcher Moss, who train in Mersey Bank, thrashed their opponents 7-1 to win the cup, scoring some wonderful goals and playing some great junior league football. PH Media Group officials watched their team bring home the silverware – another sound investment from PH Media!
Visit the Fletcher Moss website for further details on their famous cup victory…
What a bunch of phonies…
For the managers at Carlisle’s Department of Work and Pensions, the best way to cope with the additional workload caused by yesterday’s Civil Servants’ strike was to instruct the remaining staff to impersonate answering machines. It must have seemed like such a good idea at the time.
The future of On-Hold Marketing
It’s 2010, which means it’s officially The Future. We’re all using jetpacks to get to work, using teleporters to go on city breaks, talking to family with our watches, that kind of thing.
Well, sort of. Google and Apple taking over the world besides, we’re not quite as advanced as our forefathers imagined. It’s easy to laugh at old science fiction stories, movies and games now we’re here, but some of them really did think we’d be in flying cars by now. Even Arthur C. Clarke, one of the most nerdy celebrated science fiction writers in the world, thought we’d be playing with gas monsters on Jupiter by next year.
So, in the spirit of predicting the future (and because it’s trendy to talk about the next decade), we thought we’d gather ideas about the way On-Hold Marketing might change and develop. Click ‘read more’ to see what we came up with.
BBC reporter and the unbreakable mobile phone
Don’t make promises you can’t keep…
If the people behind Sonim’s unbreakable mobile phone haven’t heard that retrospective wisdom enough already, by the end of today they certainly will. When the BBC’s Dan Simmons took up the challenge to break the unbreakable at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the phone’s impressive display of resilience didn’t last long. Cue red faces all round and a good dose of British apologising, but what can we learn from this incident?
Big claims might attract plenty of publicity, but if your business can’t live up to them, that exposure can quickly turn on you. So, only offer the moon on a stick if you’ve actually got a lunar lolly up your sleeve, or make sure someone’s recording it and then broadcast it for the world’s amusement!
Want to be a rock star?
The bedroom rock star, we’ve all been there – standing in mirrors with hairbrush microphones, playing tennis racket guitar solos, the acceptance speeches, sell-out gigs at Wembley and the interviews with Parky.
For some of us, the dream ended in our adolescent years. We’ve grown up, got ourselves sensible haircuts and moved into stable jobs.
But some of us are finding new ways to live the dream, and in this post you’ll even find out how you can make your computer sing the latest hits for you.
Everyone can create music with inudge
We’re loving this Tenori-on style online synthesizer. Turn your speakers up!
If you’re after the real thing you probably should visit Yamaha’s website
Making music with Auditorium
Part musical instrument, part puzzle, Auditorium is a highly addictive browser-based video game.
Use your cursor to direct beams of light onto the graphic equaliser and you’re rewarded with beautiful music! Have a go here and see (or rather hear) for yourself!