Friday’s Cognitive Edge network meetup saw practitioners from around Europe, most of whom I hadn’t met before, descend on A La Bécasse to share experiences and work on a Sensemaker project about sensemaking. Tony showed some of the findings from the Mexico leg of Children Of World in an informal session full of practical insight. [...]
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 [...]
Got an hour? Here’s an entertaining Australian TV programme about networks and the theory of six degrees of separation (AKA Stanley Milgram’s small world experiment): “How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer“ Thanks to Anecdote.com.au for the tip.
The recent update of our Connect tool has increased usage by a factor of ten, though there is plenty of scope to improve further. More than three times as many people used Connect in July as used it in the previous month. And they looked at ten times as many user profiles. But the current [...]
The Knowledge Management Team have spent three weeks trialling our internal networking tool Connect among people we invited to connect with us. Each week we’ve seen an increase in the number of users, visits and page views, an increase in the average length of each visit and an increase in the number of people updating [...]
Last week saw the final seven days of the Connect trial, with visits climbing again by nearly 25% to 2944, while page views increased by over 30% to just under 25,000. A total of 1584 people used Connect in the week before the official launch. We managed to get most kinks sorted out before Internal [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Nasty Quechup.com gave me the impression it was going to check my address book for contacts who were already members. Instead it spammed everyone in there without telling me what it was doing. I am not the only victim: Euan Semple and Hugh MacLeod have both fallen prey to this insidious and subtle scam, along [...]
