Welcome to the first Creative Launchpad (creativelaunchpad.co.uk) blog.

We have finally decided to take our own advice about blogging and get one started, mainly thanks to Antonio Gould (antoniogould.com) who delivered an excellent session for us on blogging and podcasting for your business recently.

Antonio made a convincing case for the fact that no one working in the creative industries in 2007 can afford to ignore the developments that have taken place in recent years, making the liveweb an effective international shop window for all types of businesses – and there are loads of ways to do that for free.

In the coming weeks you can expect blogs from all the members of the Creative Launchpad team about issues that we think are important to creative individuals – not necessarily what we are funded for, or what our targets are – but what we think you want to hear about.

Each team member has their own specialism and interests as well as their own individual pet hates and loves, so this will be an opportunity for us to share them.

So the next time that one of us goes off on an office rant about the lack of dirty workspace, or funding or why creative people don’t like to make money, we’ll tell them to get blogging!