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“Carry On Up The Network” – Best Network Event Ever?

By ⋅ October 27, 2009 ⋅ One comment

The publicity for last night’s London Area Communicators’ Group October Meetup was intriguing: based around social networking, it would take place in Clerkenwell Theatre and feature a group of actors. Unsurprisingly given such novelty, it filled up quickly. Arriving early after an energising stroll up from the Thames, I was greeted warmly at the door [...]

Melcrum Communicators’ Network London Group: "Living in a wired world; Connectedness for a better work place" with Euan Semple

By ⋅ April 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

“The Quiet Revolution” Despite having worked in Knowledge Management for around six years, I’ve never yet seen Euan Semple speak. An odd omission which was happily rectified last night at the National Audit Office which hosted April’s Melcrum Communicators’ Network London Meetup Euan talks a lot of what to me seems commonsense and I find [...]

Internal communicators – ‘Why you’re worth a fortune’

By ⋅ October 22, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Last night’s meeting of the London Group of the Melcrum Communicators’ Network was the usual mix of compelling presentation and stimulating conversation, not that you would expect anything less from professional communicators. This month Russell-Oliver Brooklands – ROB to his friends – spoke about the need to improve the internal comms process, for which he [...]

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 [...]

Designing Great Events

By ⋅ February 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Following some requests from the Melcrum Communicators’ Network, here are my notes from the first London Group meeting back in September. Great events 1: identify your stakeholders Who stands to benefit from the event you are holding? The first part of designing a great event is to consider who the stakeholders are. Our discussion about [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

CommunityBuilder: focus on the people, not the tools

By ⋅ December 1, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

After experimenting – and repeatedly “failing” – with collaboration technology, we concluded we needed to pay more attention to the people using the tools. A request from HR to help facilitate a Change Management community led to us spending six weeks researching tools such as coaching circles to create CommunityBuilder, a workshop designed specifically to kickstart [...]

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” [...]

Speaking of blogging…

By ⋅ April 12, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

It was a thrill to speak at Melcrum’s recent Social Media Forum for Communicators. I’d been looking forward to it since agreeing to speak last year. Although I’ve facilitated workshops before, I’ve never stood up in front of a room full of people and told them about what I do. As I said in my [...]

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