Earlier today I received a group email from AccountingWeb announcing that tomorrow – Budget Day – there will be a live ‘budget lecture.‘ Sounds great apart from the fact they want £60 a head for the pleasure.
Last year I ran Cover-it-Live on the Budget. For free. Experts from BDO, KPMG and PwC came in. There was some terrific analysis. I offered the #budget09 hashtag that at one point was drawing close to 500 Tweets a minute. I initially thought that I’d kick off coverage around 1pm. As it happened, I needed to get things going at 9.00 am. There was THAT much interest. Given this year’s Budget will be important across multiple levels I’m doing the same thing again. For free. No sponsorship required. #budget10 for those interested.
In the meantime I wish AW well. It is a brave organisation that flies in the face of free. Especially when it draws quality. In the meantime, here’s GoodmanJones pre-budget video. Again – for free.
