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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Some new things I found out today at CreativeCoffee today:
There is a craze circulating called ‘circuit bending’ in which people are taking children’s old musical toys and rewiring the circuit board to create a form of electric music:

I was also introduced to ‘Silverlight’ like flash animations, however it seems much quicker at handing higher definition [...]

Today’s meeting was its usual busy but relaxed self. Around twenty people from various interesting careers came and mingled. There were photographers, web designers, a painter, musician’s, a film director, we had someone from Business Link and a lady from “Skills for enterprise” which provide business link start-up services and many others came along too. [...]

Today we had people from the following range of careers: lecturers, students from DMU and Derby, a Freelance designer, a photographer, a writer, a hypnotist, an actor and also people came along from the the LCB depot, CIRT, Babel Marketing & PR, Sleepydog Ltd, Escape Tunnel, Leicester City Council, HMRC… just to a name a [...]

Another busy morning!
We had Photographers Nick Delaney, Helen Jane Roscoe and David James Ross at CreativeCoffee Club. Nick told me about his recent photo shoot out in Tenerife and the unfortunately cold water! Helen mentioned her recent work with 69 magazine. David’s a consultant, lecturer and photographer. He let me know about the workshops, like [...]

Lots of people gathered for today, and the time just flew past! Some of the new faces included:
Keith Cooper a Photographer – Northlight Images, whom took a few pictures while there, his camera looked very cool and complicated! He showed me the effect of a very wide angle lens, it was unbelievable now close the [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday’s meeting was pretty busy!  After the initial hick-up of the time changes at the graduate bar (after the New Year they started opening at 11 rather than 10, unknown to us) luckily it was all sorted very quickly thanks to Shani, and they said they will open it up earlier for us when we want it [...]