Comments on: Lee Hopkins is not a dog… this way, folks, to the Egress http://desirableroastedcoffee.com/2006/05/lee_hopkins_is_.html An Oasis at the Intersection of Communication, Society and Technology Sat, 03 Apr 2010 03:08:09 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: hugh macleod http://desirableroastedcoffee.com/2006/05/lee_hopkins_is_.html/comment-page-1#comment-464 hugh macleod Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000 http://desirableroastedcoffee.com/site/?p=225#comment-464 <p>I've actually never met dave Parmet in the flesh... but I guess you could say we were luckier than most...</p> I've actually never met dave Parmet in the flesh… but I guess you could say we were luckier than most…

]]> By: Allan Jenkins http://desirableroastedcoffee.com/2006/05/lee_hopkins_is_.html/comment-page-1#comment-465 Allan Jenkins Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000 http://desirableroastedcoffee.com/site/?p=225#comment-465 <p>...which is why I used you two as an example. I think you can usually get a fairly good sense of colleagues over the blogosphere, if you follow their writing closely. I believe Hobson and Wackå didn't meet until fairly into the engagement.</p> <p>You coming to Reboot this year? Let's have another beer.</p> …which is why I used you two as an example. I think you can usually get a fairly good sense of colleagues over the blogosphere, if you follow their writing closely. I believe Hobson and Wackå didn't meet until fairly into the engagement.

You coming to Reboot this year? Let's have another beer.

]]> By: David Parmet http://desirableroastedcoffee.com/2006/05/lee_hopkins_is_.html/comment-page-1#comment-466 David Parmet Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000 http://desirableroastedcoffee.com/site/?p=225#comment-466 <p>Hugh Who?</p> <p>But all seriousness aside, in the case of EC, certainly the three of us (Tom, Hugh, me) knowing each other's blogs helped move things forward considerably in the early going. </p> Hugh Who?

But all seriousness aside, in the case of EC, certainly the three of us (Tom, Hugh, me) knowing each other's blogs helped move things forward considerably in the early going.

]]> By: Fredrik Wackå http://desirableroastedcoffee.com/2006/05/lee_hopkins_is_.html/comment-page-1#comment-467 Fredrik Wackå Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000 http://desirableroastedcoffee.com/site/?p=225#comment-467 <p>You're right, Allan. Neville and I started working together before we had met. We have discussed this quite a bit and I think I knew Neville better than I knew most of the people I worked with when I was employed at an agency (100 employees approx.). I had been reading him daily for a year or so, and vice versa.</p> <p>What interests me even more is how the client accepted it. I had the contact with the client and I was open, saying I think Neville could help us but I have never met him... He trusted me, though, and was willing to include Neville too.</p> <p>What does this mean generally? No idea, really. But perhaps that virtual agencies will become more and more common, but that they'll be firmly based in strong personal relationships with the client?</p> You're right, Allan. Neville and I started working together before we had met. We have discussed this quite a bit and I think I knew Neville better than I knew most of the people I worked with when I was employed at an agency (100 employees approx.). I had been reading him daily for a year or so, and vice versa.

What interests me even more is how the client accepted it. I had the contact with the client and I was open, saying I think Neville could help us but I have never met him… He trusted me, though, and was willing to include Neville too.

What does this mean generally? No idea, really. But perhaps that virtual agencies will become more and more common, but that they'll be firmly based in strong personal relationships with the client?

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