LCEG February 21st Meetup: “Organisations Don’t Tweet, People Do”

Many of you will have heard of Euan Semple. He’s a social media expert who’s recently published a book “Organisations Don’t Tweet, People Do”. The last time Euan ran a session for the London Communicators and Engagement Group was 2008.

Euan has agreed to run a discussion for us looking at what’s changed over the last four years and how you can be more effective in your use of Social Media in organisational life.

Special thanks to Terri Wade and Justine Stevenson of Deutsche Bank for agreeing to host February’s meetup.

Location: Deutsche Bank, 1 Great Winchester Street, London EC2N 2DB
Closest tube: Liverpool Street / Moorgate


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Time: Arrive at 6:30pm, Tuesday 21st February. 7.00pm – 8.00pm main session.

Event Synopsis

After a brief introduction about the book, Euan will facilitate a group wide discussion about the challenges and opportunities offered through Social Media use.

Euan and I spoke briefly last week (24^th January) about what the meetup will cover. Take a look at the the brief recording we made. If you can’t see it below, click here:

In addition, we’ll be running a live ‘TwitterWall’ at the event. This means that any Tweets using ‘ #lcegsm ‘ will be displayed live over data projector. Unlike many events, this is one where you are encouraged to Tweet what you think whilst the facilitator is running discussions.

Deutsche Bank have kindly offered to lay on food and drink. Therefore, this meetup is free to attend.

If you’d like to attend, contact me here.

LCEG–January 2012: “Corporate Sustainability” meetup

On Tuesday 24th January, 45 members of the “London Communicators and Engagement” meetup met to discuss the impact of ‘Corporate Sustainability’ on Internal Communication. This discussion was facilitated by Deborah Hulme of dhc Group. The group were joined by Visual Artists ‘Creative Connection’ who created a ‘tapestry’ of the discussion. Feel free to browse. Use the control panel to pan and zoom:

Also, check out this short summary video produced by Simply Communicate. Good work, guys!

Well done!

LCEG October Meetup: “Crisis Management”

Really good to see such a great turnout at last night’s LCEG meetup. It was run by Katherine Dooley, Director of Crisis Management and Communications, Burson Marsteller.

   

To see more photos from the event, click here.

A number of people requested a copy of Katherine’s slides. You can download them from here.

Special thanks to Deenita Pattni, XchangeTeam for being such a gracious host.

“Pecha Kucha” for Corporate Communicators

People who know us here at EventExtra will be familiar with our involvement in “London Communicators and Engagement Group”.

A few of you reading may even be familiar with our first “Pecha Kucha” exploration back in 2008.

It is a presentation technique recognised as stemming from the Japanese art movement as a way for artists to describe their projects quickly.

The principle is very simple – 20 slides x 20 seconds per slide. Presentations are never longer than 6m40s. Indeed, at Extra Group, we’ve used a variation of it in numerous client events to help focus presentations on the essentials.

The LCEG is revisiting Pecha Kucha next month to allow people to experience the format.

Special thanks to Katherine Dooley of Burson Marsteller for hosting the event.

Location: Burson-Marsteller, Level 6 South, Central Saint Giles, 1 St Giles High Street, London WC2H 8AG. Map

Tube: Tottenham Court Road / Holborn

Time: Arrive at 6.30pm, Tuesday 13th September. 7.00 – 8.00pm main session

Event synopsis:

“Pecha Kucha: The Return”

Although the format stays the same as our 2008 event, the topics are different! We have three presenters. Each is given 20 minutes, with 6m40s for presenting. The remainder 13m20s are set aside for Q & A.

Peter Baynham, Head of M&A, Mercer
“The Anatomy of a Corporate Merger – From pre-deal to post merger integration”

Deenita Pattni, Head of Editorial recruitment, XchangeTeam
“You’re hired! How to beat the competition and get the dream job!”

Nick Saalfeld, Director, YooDoo Media
"Build It And They Will Come?! Engagement Lessons for Communicators from an e-Learning Venture”

Cost: £10 cash contribution on the night. Receipts will be available.

If you’d like to come along, just drop me an email via “matt (at) eventextra (dot) net”, and i’ll add you to the list.

What do other people say about us?

It’s easy to say nice things about yourself. Far better when other people say them about you! A few positive testimonials from a recent LinkedIn post, where someone was asking for recommendations about companies who run workshops:

Most kind!