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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

A main topic of discussion formed around the up and coming Network of Networks. Toby gave an overview of what is happening and everyone talked about interesting ideas for locations etc. It shall chatting and conversational, informal in an “un-converence” style.
CreativeCoffee Club and other social networking groups will be joining together for a few separate [...]

As it was Toby’s Moores birthday on Sunday, to extend the celebrations he generously brought a big chocolate cake! Which went down very well, especially as it was gluten free so everyone could par-take. Ideas and topics discussed in a mass conversation between everyone but most of the time the group divided amongst themselves and [...]

This thought popped in to my head as I sat eating by breakfast and I’ve been twittering about it here all morning. I thought I’d explore it as a blog post as it gives some insight in to the SleepyDog creative process. In particular the way in which small pieces loosely joined applies to creativity:
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One of the ways we generate ideas at SleepyDog is to look at two related concepts, products or industries and see how one might influence the other. Often the results make no sense but closer inspection can lead to interesting observations. They don’t always lead to great products and can lead to Heroic Failures, which [...]

I joined in a  social media prototype or experiment on Friday - the London Social Media Café.   It’s organized by Lloyd Davis, and go to their pbwiki to find out more.  It could become a regular meetup where remote workers congregate in a café, or maybe several near to each other to work, network, or [...]

This community site and the CreativeCoffee Club itself came out of the desire to kick around our ideas on creativity for a “work in progress” book on capturing commercial creativity. We wanted to get the worlds of business, the creative arts and academia together to talk about it, because the topic is so vital to [...]