A happy new year to all our visitors. 2009 is set to be our busiest yet and along with looking after our regional CIPR events we're also pleased to announce we're now working in partnership with How-Do who serve the North West media industry to bring high quality, national events to Manchester.

The first of these will be a seminar on mobile marketing later this month at Urbis swiftly followed by a one day public sector conference at The Bridgewater Hall in February. Full details on each can be found as event PDFs on the Don't Panic website events page.

Despite the deepening recession we're very fortunate to have won a number of pitches for major pieces of client work which we'll be delivering this year. In and around these we'll be scheduling a lot more of our own Don't Panic branded events including a return to London for our social media event in March, new dates for a revised version of our crisis communications conference in Manchester and London later in the year, and finally a first outing for our New Wave PR event. We're actually in London this week checking out new venues and searching for something suitably off the wall for the latter.

Here's a bit of Blondie to brighten up your day although I could easily have chosen this one too.