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Press coverage of Global Cool’s Do It In Public campaign

Monday, August 9th, 2010 | Global Cool | 1 Comment

At Global Cool we recently launched our Do It In Public campaign.  This year we’re building on 2009′s activity and showing people how taking a journey by bus or train is the perfect opportunity to enjoy some much needed ‘me time’.

We’ve started an online book club and handed out free Hodder & Staughton books at train stations, held a series of free events on the Art of Conversation on a restored Routemaster bus, and teamed up with transport companies to brighten people’s day with some famous station announcers! And we’ve even found time to visit various music festivals to interview bands backstage about how they like to enjoy their ‘me time’.

Below is a collection of the great press coverage Do It In Public has been receiving…

Onboard a bus where commuters chat? Crazy! Metro

Bus-t that taboo in the Mirror, Independent, People, Talk Talk, MSN, Run Riot and Gumtree.

Virgin Media, Mirror.co.uk and Evening Standard all carried the video report of our first Art of Conversation talk.

Our Art of Conversation spokesperson proved popular with radio stations and was interviewed on BBC Radio Fivelive, BBC Cambridgeshire, BBC York, Smooth Radio, Colourful Radio, County Sound Radio, Kingdom FM, Radio Wave, The Bay & Lakeland and U105.

And one of the coolest newsletters out there, Urban Junkies, recommended the Art Of Conversation.

The Guardian wrote about our Book Club, as did blogs This Is Local London, Savidge Reads and Once Upon A Book Case.

Our interviews backstage at Field Day festival were featured on Mixmag and Dontstayin.

Clash magazine’s website gave away VIP tickets to Field Day festival for us.

And lots of listings for our Art of Conversation lectures in Time Out, Free London Events, Meet Up, Free London Listings and Do Blog.

The Do It In Public campaign was also mentioned in The Independent as part of a piece about catching buses.

Tags: Art of Conversation, Books In Public, Do It In Public, Field Day Festival, PR Coverage, Public transport