CreativeCoffee Club

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]