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Recruiting Communicators – MCN London Meetup

By ⋅ May 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I am not a pragmatic man. If I were, I would have asked for an alternative venue to be found for last night’s Melcrum Communicators’ Network meeting as soon as I was out of hospital. Having no experience of recovering from surgery I overestimated my return to fitness, foolishly basing it on my rather hasty [...]

Please allow me to introduce myself…

By ⋅ April 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m preparing for a couple of virtual team workshops in Prague and South Africa in the coming weeks. Members of teams and communities need to begin to trust each other quickly. A great way to start is by learning everyone’s name. Psychologists say to learn a person’s name, you should use it three times in [...]

A self-organising community

By ⋅ January 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Anecdote.com is proving an excellent source of stories about communities right now. A recent post about fostering relationships to support early community development highlighted several important factors we’ve included in CommunityBuilder, our framework for launching communities. The latest piece by Krista Schmeling recounts a story about the organic development of an on-line community and their [...]

Sustainability – Fifth Comms Network meeting

By ⋅ January 17, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The fifth meeting of the Melcrum Communicator’s Network London Group last night and there’s still not a snappier name for the group! McNelog, M.C. NLG – someone please put us out of our inelegant misery. Anja Boisten at Hill and Knowlton hosted and I had a lot of fun peering into the strange buildings around [...]

"…Steak knives..!"

By ⋅ December 14, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Dave Snowden notes an interesting development in the life-cycle of KM. Amusingly, we’ve taken a similar approach to popularise KM in British American Tobacco, creating a series of products known as KnowledgeBuilder, CommunityBuilder and IdeaBuilder.Perhaps we could offer three products for the price of two? Though only for a limited period, naturally.

Above Average Networking

By ⋅ December 12, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Last night’s MCN London Area Communicators’ Group meetup (there’s got to be a better name for it – or at least a shorter one) showed what you can accomplish with a positive attitude. With the scheduled facilitator pulling out 24 hours earlier and several people deciding not to attend at the last moment, it could’ve [...]

Intranetters II: Centrica and British American Tobacco

By ⋅ December 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

 The second Intranetters site visit yesterday was very rewarding for all the effort we put in to organising it. After the intimate round table chat Paul Squires hosted at Eon’s offices earlier this year, the size of this event reflected how Intranetters has grown over the past few months, with 20 people attending. After a [...]

Designing great events

By ⋅ September 20, 2007 ⋅ One comment

The London group of the Melcrum Communicators’ Network got off to a great start on Tuesday night with its first face-to-face meeting. The network was set up earlier this year for communicators around the world to connect, converse and exchange knowledge. This was an attempt to see if the on-line would extend to the “real” [...]

Blue Monster coffee morning – Friday

By ⋅ August 10, 2007 ⋅ One comment

The Friends of Blue Monster coffee morning was well worth getting up at 5:30am for. Great conversations with fascinating people about what they’re doing with social media tools, many of them with new blogs to read, including Steve Clayton, Jas Dhaliwal, Philip Greenwood and Jason Bates from Beaufortes, David Terrar and Lloyd Davis. As usual [...]

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