I saw a story on GMTV this morning about how we apparently all hate our colleagues. A new report says millions of us get annoyed by our pesky work ‘mates’ – bad news when you’re having to sit in a room with them for the majority of your life!

The list of annoyances include using other people’s possessions, pulling a sickie, talking loudly and leaving desks in a mess. I’m guilty of at least two – I have unfortunately become renowned for my stapler steals and my fog horn voice gossiping about last night’s TV across the office. But messy desks really do grate on me.

I’ve just done a quick poll in our office and the main gripes are loud desk eaters and people who don’t make brews (guilty as charged on the latter, in fact Big Chris recently nicknamed me ‘Nina No Brews’). What are yours? Mine is definitely people who moan, who, according to the report, are lost causes and you should just do your best to avoid them.

Have to say it made me feel quite lucky as I like all my work mates at Brahm – in fact most of them are friends outside the office. There’s a lot of love in this room (got to stop nicking their staplers though).

Stapler: property of Chris Hughes, not Nina Hands!

 Posted by Lady Nina Hands

We’re finally here, after months of planning and preparation we are close to launching OnVisible to the world.

Being a mother of two young children I’m tempted to compare it to getting married and having a family.  You search for years to find the right partner, someone on the same wavelength, that shares the same vision and then when you’re settled, and sure….you procreate.  Not quite that straightforward I know, but you get the picture.

OnVisible is very much a partnership and born out of a meeting of minds between Swamp and Brahm PR. 

Brahm acquired Swamp back in December 2006 and since then we’ve been talking and sharing and working together to develop our OnVisible baby.  We’ve been working in online PR for years but OnVisible marks a real step change in how we’ll develop and implement campaigns for our clients, and how we’ll market our expertise.