Uninviting emails
Save the date...
The email whooshes into the inbox. I click it open, thinking, ooh, goodie, let’s have a look ... ‘Save the Date’ it orders. My heart sinks.
The email whooshes into the inbox. I click it open, thinking, ooh, goodie, let’s have a look ... ‘Save the Date’ it orders. My heart sinks.
I have just gone through a slew of these maddening, temporising e-vites, and I can reveal that I have been ordered to save the date for cocktails and canapés at the Mandarin Oriental to celebrate the WTM (don’t know either) party of a PR company.
I have been told to save the date for a ‘breakfast forum’ to discuss ‘Where is Britain’s Innovative Edge?’ with Editorial Intelligence at Nesta. I am ashamed to say I do not know what or where Nesta is, and never bothered to find out. I have been instructed to ‘save the date!!’ for a debate at the Royal Society of Arts on the motion that growth can be green-powered by Intelligence Squared in one of their futurecasting series of not-to-be-missed events (as you might be able to detect, I am cutting and pasting the hype from their email).
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