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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Ice Breaking

by sizemore on 04.05.2008 09:47   0 comments , 24 views
Tags: social media cafe, tuttle club, introduction
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 were quite a few familiar faces there. Great, I thought, and immediately ignored them to listen to the people I hadn't met before :) I won't was...

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Perspective on Silverlight

by Vijay Riyait on 23.04.2008 12:30   0 comments , 45 views

I thought I would write about a relatively new Microsoft Technology called Silverlight as I was talking about it today to Tamsin at the Creative Coffee Club meeting in Leicester. It's something that has been generating some interested in the Web world especially delivering media content through the web browser. I'm sure most are familiar with Adobe's Flash and the experience it can deliver to end users. I'm not a Flash developer so I can't reall...

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30th April - CreativeCoffee Club London

by Tamsin Hatton on 01.05.2008 03:30   0 comments , 45 views

 

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 great usefulness that for instance you can get an opinion from someone on the other side of th...

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23rd April - CreativeCoffee Club in Leicester

by Tamsin Hatton on 24.04.2008 03:28   0 comments , 40 views
Tags: creativecoffee club, leicester

 
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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Pbyg_kcEk

I was also introduced to 'Silverlight' like flash animations, however it seems much quicker at handing higher definition images. Check out http://memorabil...

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CreativeCoffee Club - London 16th April

by Tamsin Hatton on 18.04.2008 03:09   0 comments , 47 views

CreativeCoffee Club - The people who come along are interesting, highly intelligent and genuinely nice and funny people. I sit absorbing as much information as I can of what everyone says, a bit of it goes over my head, some of it I feel I knew already but most is interesting new stuff I know little or nothing of. Meeting at CCC feels a little bit like brain training for me and listening to the conversations of others and engaging with p...

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Leicesters CreativeCoffee Club meeting - 9th April 2008

by Tamsin Hatton on 09.04.2008 10:27   0 comments , 68 views
Tags: creativity, networking, de montfort university, creativecoffee club, leicester, conversation

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. I was introduced to the http://www.buy-me-a-pint.com/ concept, it is like a virtu...

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Network of Networks and USB technology

by Tamsin Hatton on 03.04.2008 06:03   0 comments , 74 views
Tags: creativity, networking, creative coffee club, conversation, creativecofeee club

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 events which will be located in London, Leicester and Liverpool. The events ...

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Social Networks and the Dissolution of the Monasteries

by Sue Thomas on 29.03.2008 09:46   2 comments , 294 views
Categories: timeline, ideas

This is a longish post - please bear with me!

On 27th March I caught a discussion on Melvyn Bragg's BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time about the Dissolution of the Monasteries.  I studied this period when I was at university as a mature student in the mid 80s but I have hardly thought about it since. This week, with my head full of social media as usual, I saw synergies that I'd not been able to make twenty years ago.

Consider the para...

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A Network of Networks - wiki discussion

by David Terrar on 20.03.2008 14:49   0 comments , 241 views
Categories: Networking and meetings, brainstorming
Tags: creativecoffee, wikiwed, londonwikiwed, network of networks, mobile mondays, london wiki wednesdays
At a recent London CCC meetings Toby Moores started talking about the idea of a Network of Networks.  Lloyd Davis's London Social Media Cafe is really taking off.   Alex Craxton, who runs Mobile Mondays, has become a CCC regular, and of course I facilitate London Wiki Wednesdays.  We envisage organizing some joint events and get the 4 or more groups connected.  We discussed the power of conn...
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CCC - London - Creativity, Coffee, Conversation and Chocolate Cake!

by Tamsin Hatton on 20.03.2008 05:06   0 comments , 97 views
Categories: creativity
Tags: creativity, london, creativecoffee club, coffee, conversation


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 chatted in pairs or threes, the dynamic of how the meetings change each time was chatted about, the more the...
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Flash, twitter, the impact of social media on creativity, and a Network of Networks

by David Terrar on 15.03.2008 06:53   0 comments , 99 views
Categories: practical methods, web 2.0, creativity
Tags: london, socialmediacafe, web 2.0, coach & horses, metcalfe's law, reed's law
You can see Tamsin Hatton's photos of the latest London meeting on Flickr our Facebook group, as well as her summary post here.  It  was great fun talking creativity with the group.  Lloyd Davis told me he had an empty diary, and was wondering what to do with the day when he saw my tweet (that's a twitter message for the uninitiated - see later) saying I was on the way to the Heights that morning.  He decided to come along, w...
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5th March - London's Creative Coffee Meeting

by Tamsin Hatton on 06.03.2008 06:14   0 comments , 263 views
Tags: london, creative coffee club, heights bar, march, social, conversations.


It was a really cold morning but arriving into London, and throughout the day, it really brightened up. The surrounding view once again from the Heights bar rather amazing.

Penny Jackson brought a sound recorder along and some of the conversations of today were recorded, it will be interesting to see what everyone said, but for now here is a little summery of a few topics of conversation that came about:

The social site Twitter was chat...

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Ice Breaking

by sizemore on 04.05.2008 09:47   0 comments , 24 views
Tags: social media cafe, tuttle club, introduction
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 were quite a few familiar faces there. Great, I thought, and immediately ignored them to listen to the people I hadn't met before :) I won't was...

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