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"The
best network event ever?: tweet from Richard - http://bit.ly/1ZLxoV
         
'Carry On Up The
Network' was a pilot training event for 65 communications and
PR staff from a wide range of businesses. It was sponsored by
ModComms and devised with networking expert Jason Buck of Long
Dog. 'Carry On Up The Network was a two hour after-work training
and networking evening looking at opportunities and threats
posed by businesses using social media (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn
etc).
'Carry On Up The
Network' was a fantastic demonstration of our amazing venue,
with particpants moving from a neutral meeting meeting space
to an office, to a Neanderthal cave, to a conventional seminar
room, finally ending up in a Moulin Rouge-style cabaret. It
was also a demonstration of Big Wheel's versatility, providing
a wide range of different approaches to training, ranging from
the very unusual to the very conventional.
The evening was a
combination of performances, formal training, and interactive
exercises. Highlights included:
- 'Profiles'
As people arrived they completed large A1 'profiles' which
were posted around the venue. Participants were encouraged
to write comments on each others' profiles.
- 'Social Networking:
The Opera' - Sr'Alan, Nick and Margaret getting to grips
with social media, in close harmony
- 'The People
Who Think It's All A Load Of Newfangled Nonsense' - comedy
series about points in history where new ideas have been met
with scepticism and fear (e.g. the invention of the telephone)
- 'The Media
Diva' - a cabaret act by opera singer Susan Moore including
the immortal line: 'Hey Big Spender... spend a little time
on MySpace'
- 'The People
Who Have To Deliver' - a two-part drama in which office
workers at first cannot cope with introducing social networking
to the workplace, but then learn how to manage it and love
it.
- 'Jason's brainstorm'
- the serious bit - a half hour interactive presentation
by media guru Jason Buck (www.TheLongDog.co.uk)
where the partcipants worked in small groups to identify the
best way to encourage and assist different types of staff
to use social networking for business
- 'Instant Messaging':
over dinner, participants used the waiters to carry messages
from table to table in the style of speed dating. (one of
the waiters was a ten-foot high stilt walker)
- 'Academia Corner':
A video link to our very own mad professor at Liverpool University
researching social media (his big tip: it's easy to start
networking, the problem is how to keep a network going)
- 'Twitter'
- a live twitter feed was broadcast throughout the venue all
evening. Participants sent tweets as they were taking part.
Others joined us from as far afield as the USA.
Carry On Up The Network
can be presented in many other contexts, not simply as an evening
event, e.g. as a training session at your workplace, or as part
of an awayday. Costs depend on how much tailor-made preparation
would be needed, and the numbers of people involved. Training
sessions start at £900 plus VAT for a half day.
For all enquiries
e-mail
Roland Allen, at info@bigwheel.org.uk
and
visit www.TheLongDog.co.uk
for more info and reviews
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