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Entries from July 2007

Telling a Story

July 18th, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog/61.html
I thought this was a lovely way to tell a story.
It made me think about how BG did this.� She took the photos as she went along but must have written the story afterwards, as she was in a hurry to get to a speaking event.

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Massive Virtual Communities - do we count at Emerge?

July 14th, 2007 · No Comments

http://elgg.jiscemerge.org.uk/francesbell/weblog/708.html
I don’t think so quite, but …….
some of us are probably studying massive VCs with Second Life and MMORPG.  Anyway, if we are, this might be a good conference to plan for 2008 - IFIP WG 9.5 International Working Conference on Virtuality and Society: Massive Virtual Communities (warning - this link only worked for me [...]

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Late arrival at the Community Showcase ball

July 10th, 2007 · No Comments

http://elgg.jiscemerge.org.uk/francesbell/weblog/683.html

David Dowdle and I are putting together a bid to be a supporting project (in the area of academic development) for other larger projects.� We have already talked to Maggi Savin-Baden� about the possibility of writing a mutual link into our bids - think win-win.
If this may be of interest to you, please contact us [...]

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Developing women leaders

July 5th, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog/57.html
Rachel Woolf

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Sarah Churchill gave some very useful tips on how women can behave to develop leadership and be noticed, and then went on to show the changes that have been made at PwC to increase satisfaction and achievement by women in their organisation.�
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Anne Oberon is a Leadership Coach who works with military establishments. Anne spoke [...]

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HIgh tech talent in the afternoon

July 5th, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog/56.html
Louise Makin started this session with her story of career development in high technology businesses, working in large organisations to her current position as CEO of BTG plc, that develops novel pharmaceuticals and medical technologies.� She spoke of the challenge of leading groups of technologists, and how to get the best out of them, reconciling [...]

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