Good morning everyone,

Happy New Year from all the staff here at your favourite badge company, BIG! What you see above is a FourSquare Happy 2011 badge, a social network which rewards it's users with badges for 'checking' into places. (For Facebook users, Facebook copied the 'Places' idea from the FourSquare network.) Perhaps one day they'll require real, physical badges!

We all just got back to the various BIG offices today (traffic problems allowing) and aside from our remaining Xmas decorations and some car park sludge remnants everything is how it should be with the factory back up to full production speed and sales chatter filling the office. As you know, it's essential our factory runs around the clock to ensure that our badge orders are fulfilled during the last and first days of the year; a lot of our customers order a fresh batch of badges to kickstart the year to give them that immediate head start over the competition.

How did you all enjoy your festive time? We hope that friends, family and magical joyous wonder played the most important parts in your Christmas! If you have any thoughts or comments about the BIG Badge Blog or indeed the BIG name badges site, be sure to leave a comment here and let us know, no matter how big or small your issue! Also, any comments, ideas or suggestions are very gratefully received!