CreativeCoffee Club
What is CreativeCoffee Club?

CreativeCoffee Club is a meetup and networking event, after the style of the OpenCoffee Club.  We aim to provide a place for business people, academics, teachers, public sector workers and managers to network, exchange ideas and discuss how to foster creativity and innovation in the workplace. 

As well as holding physical meetings alternating between London and Leicester (see the events section for more details) we will use this community site to meet, discuss, and publish our ideas. 

For a little more about the thinking behind the project read the CreativeCoffee Club Manifesto. 

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NLab Social Networks Conference 19th June 2008

by Shani Lee on 06/21/2008 04:34   0 comments , 60 views
Tags: nlabnetworks
Live-blogs, flickr from the day, feedback from delegates on the conference website. Follow the NLab community (delegates, speakers and organisers) at Twitter.


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CreativeCoffee Club Leicester - 18th June

by Shani Lee on 06/21/2008 04:26   0 comments , 64 views
Tags: toby moores, leicester
The last CCC Leicester event before the summer break and it definitely had an end-of-term feel to it - or maybe that was just me. As usual, I was ridiculously excited by the prospect of seeing who turned up and enjoying the conversation. I wasn't quite sure how this coffee club would go, as the hugely spectacular NLab Conference was due to take place the following day. Would that create too much demand on CCC member's time?

As it was, we had a go...

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Penny Jackson interviews Bass Guitarist Steve Lawson about the power of Social Media

by Toby Moores on 06/02/2008 17:56   0 comments , 172 views
Tags: toby moores, social media, euan semple, penny jackson, steve lawson, audience
I thoroughly recommend that you go and listen to Penny Jackson's interview with Steve Lawson about finding audiences through social media. It can be found here.

I love the way Steve's curiosity and a little help from his friends allowed him to build a career as a musician that is sustainable in the long term. Despite having gigged with some 'Big Names', it is through conversations with his fans that he is able to pay the bills and more

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5/28/2008 London CreativeCoffee Club - Heights Bar in Saint Georges Hotel

by Tamsin Hatton on 05/28/2008 10:09   0 comments , 98 views
Tags: creativity, creativecoffee club, mobile phone, st georges hotel, london meeting, meetings, chat coffee, blogging

The group was slightly smaller than usual, perhaps it was to do with the rather miserable weather.. or more likely they were probably just busy (as the weather usually is pretty dreary!!)

Conversation was very relaxed, and it is usually, because mostly (if not always) no agendas or topics are pre-decided. So everyone's free to talk about pretty much anything! Which draws me on to mention a few things that arose..

New Zealand films.. ...

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CreativeCoffee Club - Leicester

by Tamsin Hatton on 05/21/2008 10:07   1 comment , 120 views
Tags: creativity, leicester, coffee, conversation, creativecoffee club

Have you ever searched for your home town on youtube? I never thought to before, and today at CreativeCoffee someone asked me if I have... So I quickly checked on-line and was surprised to find so many videos people have made. I searched for the town nearest to where I grew up, and found 5,000 videos (obviously not all of the place, but a lot were) I next searched for the small village I lived it (never thinking there wouldbe anything)...

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The impact of Social Media on Business and Innovation

by Toby Moores on 05/18/2008 12:27   0 comments , 103 views
Categories: business, enterprise 2.0, creativity
Tags: toby moores, social media, euan semple, penny jackson, business infrastructure
[updated text] A couple of weeks ago Euan Semple and I had a conversation about social media and its impact on business and life guided by Penny Jackson. We discuss the infrastructural nature of social media, and its implications as a business and creative amplifier.

 Penny is planning to develop this in to a series of conversations between amplified individuals. The audio is here

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Generating Wealth Through Social Networks

by Shani Lee on 05/15/2008 05:48   0 comments , 112 views
Tags: creativity, innovation, nlab social networks conference
Here in Leicester, we've been looking at how social networks can generate wealth - for individuals and for businesses. One of the starting places was Ron Burt's work around structural holes, and the idea that creativity takes place in the spaces between structures and networks. There has also been some evidence that people who network across networks (ie they interact with several networks) earn significantly more than their peers who only netwo...
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Naming the destination site for Network of Networks

by David Terrar on 05/14/2008 13:13   0 comments , 128 views
Tags: networking, socialmediacafe, mobile mondays, london wiki wednesdays, networks, non, social media mafia
We spent some time at this week's London CreativeCoffee Club talking through the Network of Networks concept.  We would host an unconference style meeting, probably quarterly, that pulls together the communities from CreativeCoffee, London Social Media Cafe, Mobile Mondays, London Wiki Wednesdays, Social Media Mafia and any other groups that want to join in.  We discussed the direction, frequency and kind of things we'll cover in our sessions (m...
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Network of Networks: A Beginning

by sizemore on 05/12/2008 08:30   0 comments , 176 views
Tags: network of networks, event

I'm looking forward to this Wednesday's CCC for a number of reasons. The chance to meet new people, pick up from conversations started last week and of course have a couple of pots of coffee all to myself while enjoying the view.

Mostly though I want to talk to Toby and everyone else about this concept of a Network of Networks that some of you will have heard about.

Right now there's a lot of interesting small get-togethers happening up and down t...
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Ice Breaking

by sizemore on 05/04/2008 09:47   1 comment , 132 views
Tags: social media cafe, tuttle club, introduction
I attended my first Creative Coffee Club on Wednesday after hearing about it through Toby. I'm already something of a fixture on Friday mornings at the Social Media Cafe so was interested to see how a different group was made up and where it was heading.

The first thing I noticed of course was that there were quite a few familiar faces there. Great, I thought, and immediately ignored them to listen to the people I hadn't met before :) I won't was...

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30th April - CreativeCoffee Club London

by Tamsin Hatton on 05/01/2008 03:30   0 comments , 246 views

 

Within the first hour the group had doubled to 12, and lots of different conversations going on. The topic of music popped up and the difficulty of marketing physical products when you can download music.

The popular social networking working tool twitter and twirl came up again today, and its simplistic interface design is good. Its great usefulness that for instance you can get an opinion from someone on the other side of th...

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