Archive for March, 2008

Monday, March 17th, 2008

a new american kiwi

On Friday, March 7, a new american kiwi was born. Yet to be named, this wee North Island brown kiwi hatched at Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC. Unlike the kiwis in the Chicago TimeZoneOne office, this one won’t be allowed to visit New Zealand so any kiwifruit pavlova it is to enjoy will need […]

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Sunday, March 16th, 2008

st paddies day

Today’s color is green. For those of you not in the know, it is the color of St Patrick’s day and TimeZoneOne. Everyone in the office has come to work wearing TimeZoneOne green Crocs adorned with four leaf clover and leprechaun jibbitz whilst indulging in some pantone 802 green colored Captain Cook Spruce Beer. St […]

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Thursday, March 13th, 2008

zoner of the week

With similar character to that displayed when David took home his own secret Santa gift in the White Elephant gift exchange, he is appointing himself Employee of the Week. Not because he believes he deserves it, simply because, as this week’s BlogMaster, he can. This makes David the first Zoner to hold the title for […]

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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

top 10 uses for kiwifruit

The kiwifruit is TimeZoneOne’s official fruit, so today we’re taking a look at what makes this furry little berry so special. Here are the top 10 things you can do with a humble kiwifruit:
#10. PREVENT SCURVY: Although Captain Cook’s Spruce Beer is a great way to prevent Scurvy, if you need to drive home after […]

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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

foose news

We’re not only creative, there are some true athletes at TimeZoneOne. There was a top of the table clash, in the TimeZoneOne FooseBall (Table Soccer) League, between Simon’s ‘Team Roketz’ and David’s ‘The School Bus’. The School Bus was lagging behind by several points and it looked as if Team Roketz were going to take […]

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Monday, March 10th, 2008

from the archives

Today I had a dig through the TZ1 archive to see what we were up to on this day last year. This day last year was a Sunday in New Zealand, so we would’ve been relaxing eating pavlova, but we got back into doing awesome stuff on Monday the 12th. Here’s a snapshot of some […]

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Sunday, March 9th, 2008

a long lunch with Ronald McDonald

On Friday, our Account Manager, Elizabeth Davidson, and I attended the annual Long Lunch. This is a great fundraising and business networking event that features the longest outdoor table you have ever seen! This year, the lunch was held on the grounds of Riccarton House in Christchurch. We were the invited guests of Ronald McDonald […]

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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

the immutable laws of marketing

“The 22 immutable laws of marketing” is a great read for all marketers. Written by Al Ries and Jack Trout, I recommend you put it on your must read list. It is hard to pick a favorite law but if I was pressed, I would go with law #3: “It’s better to be first in […]

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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

zoner of the week

Hat’s off today to David McLeod, an extraordinary zoner at TimeZoneOne. Over the last week David has delivered outstanding creative concepting and world-class art direction on a set of 90 and 120 second corporate video stories for our global client, Starcom MediaVest Group. Not only does our client love the work, the creative execution is […]

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Monday, March 3rd, 2008

welll donnneee to us!!!

It is an exciting day today at TimeZoneOne. It’s a big “welll donnneee” to us and our client Crocs as we have just found out that we are a finalist in the 2008 EFFIE Awards for advertising effectiveness. This is for our campaign “Crocs - take a closer look”. The EFFIE judges have advised us […]

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