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Success Factors for CreativeCoffee Club

x-posted from NLab

CreativeCoffee Club has been going for about a year now. Local groups have met in London, Leicester, Liverpool, Bangor, Palo Alto and New York. The Leicester group has been especially successful, meeting consistently over the year with steady participation from local small businesses and visitors from further afield.

One of the great things about CreativeCoffee Club is that it doesn’t cost any money. It’s abou...

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NLab Social Networks Conference 19th June 2008

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

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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Generating Wealth Through Social Networks

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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CreativeCoffee Club Leicester - Press Release

A free creative boost is on offer to all businesses at a new Leicester network already producing tangible benefits for its first member firms.

Companies already taking part in the CreativeCoffee Club, hosted by De Montfort University, are urging others to do the same after discovering real benefits for their businesses and people. They are reporting an injection of innovation, stimulation for their staff and even new business leads...

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Three Months On – Thoughts From Leicester

CreativeCoffee Club got off to a lively start in Leicester, the event on 26th September epitomising the best of CCC – spontaneous, friendly, conversational, sparky, bursting with ideas, possibilities, connections! It was intoxicating.

It was interesting to observe on 19th December, the last event before the winter break, changes in the group and how it had matured over the seven or eight events we’d had through the autumn. We have about a hundred...
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Free Help for Business to Generate Wealth Via Facebook

De Montfort University is offering free help for companies to boost business by joining the online social network Facebook.

Facebook for Business is an evening event being run to help SMEs generate wealth by social networking at the University's Institute of Creative Technologies on Monday 26 November.

Starting at 6pm, with admission free of charge, Facebook forBusiness is a two hour workshop open to all, and will include practicaldemo...

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CCC Leicester, 7th November

Well, this week’s CreativeCoffee Club was very exciting! Almost too exciting for me, as I discovered that Toby Moores, one of the inspirational minds behind CreativeCoffee Club, and I shared a link through Roy Stringer from Amaze, a digital media company in Liverpool. So I’ve blagged a lift to the CreativeCoffee Club taking place on 29th November (see the events section for more details), and I’m looking forward to re-acquainting myself with Liv...
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CreativeCoffee Club - Leicester - Future Events

Future meetings for CreativeCoffee Club Leicester are set for:
Wednesday 7th November and Wednesday 21st November
Wednesday 5th December and Wednesday 19th December
We meet at the Graduate Bar, The Campus Centre, Mill Lane, Leicester from 10-12pm

With three meetings behind us, CreativeCoffee Club Leicester is getting into the swing of regular creative conversations! Drop in at any time, stay as long as you like, talk about anything you like. It's a ...