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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New venue for CCC London - 12 November onwards

by David Terrar on 11/11/2008 05:50   0 comments , 181 views
Categories: Networking and meetings
Tags: creativecoffee, creativity, innovation, networking, creative, london, creativecoffee club, education, ccc, entrepreneurs, startups, connections, ucl, ucl advances

For some time we've planned to hook CreativeCoffee Club up with a University in London, as well as wanting to get away fro the Height's Bar at the St. Georges. The Heights Bar has a great view, and means you can regularly rub shoulders with BBC luminaries and producers, but the coffee is lousy and the service even worse. Open Coffee and Seedcamp just hooked up with UCL, and since this is my old university I made contact with UCL Advances. This i...

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Upwards and Onwards / Pause for Reflection

by sizemore on 09/16/2008 10:59   0 comments , 127 views
Categories: brainstorming
Tags: someone once told me, reflection, moving forwards
It's my birthday today so it's perhaps not surprising that I'm feeling a tad reflective. I've been looking back on a pretty fun year and thanks to an interview I did with Penny at the beginning of the month I've also been thinking about what got me here. Good stuff no doubt, but making a habit of looking backwards means you can be taken by surprise. Black Swans and all that.

So in that spirit (and following on from Shani's post covering the stren...
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Success Factors for CreativeCoffee Club

by Shani Lee on 08/27/2008 12:45   4 comments , 652 views
Tags: leicester

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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Hello everyone. I'm new here. . .

by Martin Doran on 07/19/2008 07:23   0 comments , 106 views
Categories: good books, practical methods, children, education
Tags: creative, school, teacher, education, schools, teaching, learning, critical, thinking, leat, vos, dryden

. . . and I'm delighted to have found you.  I bumped into this site a couple of months ago and very quickly became enthusiastic about the concept.  I'm intrigued that there seems to be little representation from school teachers just now, though I'm happy to be proved wrong.  So, on the principle 'be the change you wish to see', I've signed up. 

Ken Robinson's talk about creativity in schools is very interesting.&n...

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NLab Social Networks Conference 19th June 2008

by Shani Lee on 06/21/2008 04:34   0 comments , 572 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 , 544 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 , 680 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

T...

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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 , 1914 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 , 619 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 , 661 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 , 525 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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