Announcing the Cambridge Wine Tasting group

I am very pleased to announce the launch of the Cambridge Wine Tasting group on meetup.com.  I love drinking wine, albeit in moderation, and I would like to know more about it; last year I met Domenico “Domn” Bonadio who is an enologist and wine expert and I suggested this collaboration as a way for him to […]

Yellow belts in networking

I have been practicing martial arts since 1978 so their practice is very much embedded in everything I do in my life; many martial arts use coloured belts as ranking system, in order to indicate seniority, and often experience/expertise within the school.  For many schools and styles the yellow belt indicates the level that students […]

The power of Twitter

Having followed and re-tweeted people in the Cambridge area for years it happened more than once that I entered a networking event and I met in person somebody that already knew me via Twitter or I knew them or both. Earlier this week I met in person Robert Craven a famous author, speaker and marketing […]

Let’s exchange cards

Isn’t this one of the most used and misused sentences at networking events? Try visualising the following scene: you are at a business networking meeting.  Whether the event is managed by a facilitator or more informal, the typical elements are usually as follows: a room  with several people talking to each other in pairs or […]

Creating Cambridge BIG Summer BBQ

For the first time, to the best of our knowledge, we’ll have people that network in high tech (electronics, software, hardware) groups as well as life sciences groups.