Jon Edwards
London, UK
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Jon Edwards
Media Relations Officer at Royal Society of Chemistry
Public Relations and Communications | London, United Kingdom, GB
Summary
Have gained considerable media coverage for the RSC, science we publish and chemistry in general, earning a CIPR Excellence Award shortlisting (2009).
Comfortable talking to the media as a representative of the RSC and chemistry more generally, experienced in live radio and television.
Run internal training sessions explaining the media's role in RSC communications and strategy.
Have designed, moderated and contributed to the RSC's blog, and operate the media office's Twitter account.
Comfortable talking to the media as a representative of the RSC and chemistry more generally, experienced in live radio and television.
Run internal training sessions explaining the media's role in RSC communications and strategy.
Have designed, moderated and contributed to the RSC's blog, and operate the media office's Twitter account.
Specialties: Science communication, copy writing, copy editing
Experience
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Mar 2008 - Present
Media Relations Officer / Royal Society of Chemistry
Generating positive media coverage and dealing with the media.
Acting as an RSC spokeman for print, radio and television.
Training graduate trainees in the role of media in the RSC. -
Oct 2007 - Jan 2008
Science Writer / Royal Society of Chemistry
Undertook the RSC's Marriott Studentship, writing news for Chemistry World and a feature for Education in Chemistry.
After the 8-week placement finished, continued to write news for Chemistry World on a freelance basis.
Education
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2003 - 2007
University of Warwick
MChem in ChemistryActivities: Band, Atomic
Additional information
Websites:
Honors:
Finalist, Best Media Relations, CIPR Excellence Awards 2009 (Save the Italian Job Gold competition)
Interests:
PR, media, social networking, social bookmarking, blogging, CSS, computers, technology, music, guitar, apple computers
Assoc.:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Posts
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July 28, 09:30 AM
Less a quote, more a threat
From BBC News website today. The quote is so blunt and so wonderful out of context I just had to save it.
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July 28, 06:24 AM
Arrived: my free iPhone 4 Bumper
It's not as bulky as I'd imagined, but I still can't see me using my iPhone 4 Bumper. Doesn't feel as well-made as other Apple products either - it's just a bit too loose and the sides bulge out if you squeeze it in certain ways.
Add this to the fact I didn't really have any problems to begin with, and I reckon I could quite happily leave this in a drawer.
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July 27, 06:20 AM
Volvo at LlanfairPG
Someone I know went to North Wales recently, and asked if there's anything to see in LlanfairPG. I respond thusly: Yes, my favourite car dealership in the whole world and their phenomenal frontage.
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July 23, 04:27 AM
Awesome word of the day: "cogniferous"
I'm really enjoying the iPhone port of Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney,
and it seems this word appears nowhere on the planet but in this game
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July 22, 09:25 AM
Outlook's maddening toolbars
Outlook is out to get me. Each time I organise the toolbars they get rearranged to whatever crazy format Outlook thinks is best. The red-ringed toolbar in the picture baffles me even more.
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July 19, 10:49 AM
The tiny people in the courtyard
Just a quick test of Camera+ for iPhone 4. A little colour alteration and tilt-shift effect on a shot from my office window in the Burlington House courtyard below. - July 19, 06:32 AM
- July 15, 06:24 PM
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July 15, 06:15 PM
Today's Daily Telegraph, page 2
Quote from me in today's Telegraph on a story we did a while back.
Link to the story online: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7890440/School-children-disprove-theory-th...
Link to the original RSC blog post on the story: http://prospect.rsc.org/blogs/rsc/2009/10/09/jon/are-spiders-scared-of-conkers/
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July 13, 02:47 PM
Ominous hotel literature: you're welcome... this time.
My hotel, the Crowne Plaza in Glasgow, is pretty decent. There’s a reasonably comfortable bed, a reasonably well-furbished bathroom, and a chair and a desk to slave over when there’s no conference stuff going on.
I’m perplexed, however, by the greeting card that has, er, greeted me in my room.
Dear guest,
We are delighted to welcome you to the hotel on this occasion."
On this occasion? Does this mean that, on this occasion, I have caused delight (certainly didn’t see any) but should I dare venture to Glasgow again I will be cast out with fury? Perhaps it simply means that, while they’re delighted to welcome me this time, they would be merely pleased on a second visit, and downright indifferent on a third.
Or perhaps the desperate author of this sorry little card just couldn’t bear to leave the sentence in a simpler form: “we’re delighted to welcome you to the hotel”, “welcome to the hotel” or even just “welcome” would all have been viable alternatives. “No,” they thought, “this is a hotel! The more pretension the better, right? I should stuff as many bloated flowery nothings into the literature as possible, just before it collapses under the weight of unnecessary clarifications.” …I presume.
But wait! A glimmer of hope, after a weird paragraph asking me to rate their staff (a para clearly the target of a sawn-off comma shotgun from long range, brutal and inaccurate, and concluding with the oddly indiscriminate: “In other words, made your day a little brighter”. Huh?)
After another slightly annoying comma – at least they didn’t just slop a dollop of excess semicolon polyfiller, much as I inexpertly fix my bath’s edges with more sealant than is necessary or wise – after this, I get:
…and look forward to welcoming you back in the near future.
Now we’re getting somewhere. Should I return in a week’s time, I’ll presumably receive the delighted welcome. But if I darken their doorstep in the mid- to far future, that delight may be cordial, indifferent or simply disgusted. I suspect I’ll never know. The next time I stay here, no matter the time interval, it’s likely I’ll receive the same card proclaiming delight at my arrival, and the same cold indifference from the real staff.
- July 13, 07:29 AM
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July 09, 07:37 AM
Royal Society of Chemistry - photo tour
A quick tour of some of my favourite bits of Burlington House and the Royal Society of Chemistry headquarters. Highlights include a portrait of Thomas Graham, first president of the Chemical Society, and the first Royal Charter given to the Royal Institute of Chemistry confirming Her Majesty the Queen as the Institute's patron. -
July 08, 02:51 PM
Serafinowicz wisdom
Just because someone said "Just because someone said it, it doesn't mean it's true", it doesn't mean it's true.
Peter Serafinowicz, on Twitter
http://twitter.com/serafinowicz/status/18055059090 - July 05, 11:30 AM
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July 02, 12:29 PM
Death camera at Dagenham East station
These spiky cameras at Dagenham East station really caught my eye. Really lent a certain intimidating quality to the place.
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June 30, 11:06 AM
They Might Be Giants - Meet the Elements on Vimeo
via vimeo.comCute song and video from They Might Be Giants' new album "Here Comes Science".
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June 30, 10:01 AM
Handycam seems to have all bases covered
I can't disconnect the camera until it's been disconnected. Mr Canon,
we appear to be at an impasse. - June 30, 05:21 AM
- June 29, 05:03 AM
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June 28, 06:39 AM
iOS4 and Exchange calendar colours
iOS4, the latest version of Apple's mobile device operating system, changes the way colours are assigned to synced Google/Exchange calendars. Again.
I wrote a blog post a while back, but then lost the whole blog, so that article is consigned to the void. Good, though: it appears the old tricks don't work, and perhaps aren't even necessary. In iPhone OS (or now iOS) 3.x, calendars were assigned colours in a fixed order, in the order they were subscribed to on the device. Red, blue, green, orange and purple were given to numbers 1-5. To make things more complicated, you can't deselect your primary calendar in Google Sync, so if you don't like red for your primary calendar (as in my case) you had to resort to some trickery. To correctly assign your own calendar colours, you could pad out the early colours with dummy accounts then use GSync to add in your accounts in the right order. Once you took out a dummy calendar, the colour slot became available again, so to assign Cal 1 (primary GCal) as green and Cal 2 as blue, you set up two dummy accounts, then add Cal 1, delete the second dummy cal, then add Cal 2. Not exactly straight-forward but not too taxing either. Then iOS4 hit and I was flummoxed by the seemingly random new colour assignments. After a bit of fiddling I think I've cracked it: each calendar added is given the next available colour in the list, regardless of what other calendars have. The order is the same, except there's a manky brown one in at position 6 as well. (Not sure that wasn't in iOS3.x to be honest). So to assign colours in iOS4 all I had to do was keep turning each calendar off and on in GSync, cycling through the colours until it hits the right one. Once my primary calendar hit the right colour (gree) I could tactically add my other cals according to my preferences - in this case, adding my Facebook cal next made it orange, my preferred choice. So now my new iPhone 4 is correctly coloured. As iPad still runs 3.2, though, the first dummy cal method is still applicable - until the autumn, when we've been promised iOS4 for iPad. It would be a lot easier if you could just select what colour you wanted each calendar, but at least there remains a predictable (if roundabout) way of selecting the right colours.Perhaps this will be of some use to someone, but only if there are people as anal about calendar colours as I am.
Updates
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.@EPSRC are asking for input for the International Review of Maths. My input: reducing surds in your head is too hard, please make it easier24 minutes ago from Echofon
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@janinegibson Budgens is definitely posh. But am judging by Crouch End - does that swing the judgement? Against new Waitrose, not so posh...5 hours ago from Echofon
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@gxusm who who who who who?5 hours ago from Echofon
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@IantoTheGreat my posterous: http://jonedwards.posterous.com22 hours ago from Echofon
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@IantoTheGreat posterous works by email. it is literally the easiest blogging platform out there.22 hours ago from Echofon
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@IantoTheGreat TypePad... really? can I recommend nice and early that you actually go with @posterous which is awesome.22 hours ago from Echofon
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@davidhughes I sorta wrote off scrobbling when I stopped listening to music at a desktop. How does it work on iPod etc.?23 hours ago from Echofon
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Less a quote, more a threat http://post.ly/pABJ24 hours ago from Posterous
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yeeehaah, native inertial scrolling on my Macbook. That's been a long time coming.25 hours ago from Echofon
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Hmm my free Bumper just arrived. Not as bulky as I'd expected, but still not sure I'll use it...28 hours ago from Echofon
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@davidhughes da-DOW da-DOW da-DOW da-DOW dada-DOW (whoooo whoo whoooo oo oo)29 hours ago from Echofon
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@dani_ellie just read your TS3 comments. Wasn't it lovely? great ending.30 hours ago from Echofon
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@IantoTheGreat super duper! am tempted to add my fave quote: "This may sound like a stupid q but where are my clothes?" Carrio circa 200146 hours ago from Echofon
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@IantoTheGreat that was a weird response. Don't really know what to make of it.46 hours ago from Echofon
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@QuotablesHQ that makes sense. Your call!46 hours ago from Echofon
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@QuotablesHQ of course this is personal preference, but I'd want a maximum of 5/day I reckon.46 hours ago from Echofon
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@QuotablesHQ how often will @QuotablesLoves tweet?47 hours ago from Echofon
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@philnash hey if I edit someone's quote, how long will it take for the changes to take effect? Do they have to approve the changes?2 days ago from Echofon
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:( bit expensive, even for Apple. £59 for the Magic Trackpad? (or as some wag cleverly spoonered, the Tragic Macpad)2 days ago from Echofon
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@philnash I submitted a quote! Cool-looking site :)2 days ago from Echofon
Tracks
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