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I’m Kim Skildum-Reid, I’ve been doing sponsorship for about twenty-four or so years, and I really love it. I’m also never short of an opinion, idea, story, or rant, so the fact that I have a blog is a good thing. Otherwise, my poor husband would bear the brunt of it, and as a builder, he really couldn’t give a rat’s bum.

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When you have a name like Kim Skildum-Reid…

Posted on 22 June 09 by Kim Skildum-Reid

…Google voice search is hilarious.

I’ve got it on my iPhone. When I said my name to test it, it came up with a whole list of links for “human skeleton review”. A friend with a much more normal name did a voice search on his name, and it came up with “spray bubble can”. Hmmm.

Then just the other day, some Facebook app asked if I’d like to work out my Hollywood name (think J.Lo, LiLo, SamRo, etc). Apparently, it’s “KiSkir”. I guess it could be worse. It could be “human skeleton review”.

If any of you have the Google iPhone app with voice search, say your name and find out what you get. If it’s as bad as “spray bubble can” or “human skeleton review”, let me know!

On a big tangent – but still name-related – I recently heard that there is a band in Adelaide called “Ambush Marketing’. I wonder if they know they’ve got a toolkit?

“Ambush Marketing” on YouTube