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What people say about us
Cambridge Network receives feedback every day about the things members like - and don't - about our service. Read some of our members' comments below.... Corporate Gateway Earlier this year you passed our contact details to CVB of P. Research Labs. I am pleased to say we have now been awarded an initial 10-day market research and regulatory strategy pilot study contract. JP 18/04/08 Thank you so much for Monday night's event - it was truly stimulating and really served to engage our cultural offer within the wider business and inventing community – I was raving about the flexible screen that will have media content downloaded onto it from anywhere in the world – the news on the go and beyond. HR 24/04/08 Many thanks for the generous invitation to the Cambridge Gateway Gala dinner on Tuesday evening. The food, wine and service were excellent as was the company. It was thoroughly enjoyable and productive. I enjoyed meeting the other technology experts from a wide variety of backgrounds and I hope to further the contacts established. IS 25/04/08 Thank you very much for the excellently organised event and the good time I had in Cambridge. I am very impressed about the entrepreneurial spirit of the people I met in Cambridge. JP 29/04/08 Thanks for organising a very interesting presentation. It was of great value and really got us thinking afterwards. CV 17/03/08 We get invited to many such events, but given our tight technical focus, most events do not bring serious opportunities to our attention. However, Cambridge has an exceptional reputation. RM 03/09/08 This event last year showed in the space of 60 minutes what scientific Cambridge is all about. Maybe above my head but I bow my head in admiration at those that can and do deliver the future. WV 12/02/09 The Corporate Gateway - Open Meeting (this year on March 30) is a red letter day in terms of the number of people that it brings together in one place. I've always found it a great networking opportunity but like any such event your mileage may vary depending on who you end up meeting on the day. The Gateway programme is also good and again I've had good meetings from it. But it depends on the delegates selecting who they want to meet, so there isn't much opportunity for serpendipity. Many thanks for the breakfast – it was really interesting. As my first event, I enjoyed it and can see the real value in the Cambridge Network. SS 20/06/08 Many thanks for organising an excellent evening for the clean tech interest group last week. EG 23/11/08 Healthcare Special Interest Group Thank you for permitting me to stay last night. I thought it was a great meeting and wonderful to learn of the progress of Patient Health Records. The Network provides a great opportunity to meet people and I want to become part of the network. CG 19/02/09 India Open Meeting Thanks. It was a great, high energy event. Very useful for me.Thanks for all your efforts, BH 30/6/08 I very much enjoyed the India session and thought your panel were excellent. PW 30/6/08 Café Networking Thank you very much for your hospitality last night: it was obviously a very successful event and even in the short time I was there I had the opportunity of meeting some very interesting people. DB 16/12/08 Many thanks for your email, and for your warm welcome yesterday evening. It was a hugely successful event in all sorts of ways, and we are very grateful to have had the opportunity to address such a great number of people. Needless to say, we shall be pleased to arrange representation of TOU in the East of England at the next event planned for 24 February! We look forward to receiving further details nearer to the date. MK 17/12/08 Thanks you so much for the opportunity to speak. I agree that its a great venue for a productive informal gathering. RT 17/12/08 Website I have decided not to renew my membership of the Cambridge Network. Primarily, this decision was made because I don't think the website has really done anything to improve the functionality or services available to members since its launch. In an age of news story ranking (ala Digg), embedded audio/video and the various other web 2.0 services dedicated to news, I think it's extremely disappointing that a site such as Cambnet, representing a high-tech area such as Cambridge has been so slow to adopt the internet. Even the RSS feeds don't work properly. There are several features which if you implemented, would vastly improve the overall experience of Cambnet and ultimately make more people use it more often. Please take this as positive feedback. NM 01/04/08 (pay invoice on line..) Worked fine for me. No problem at all; quick, easy and just the way I'd hope. DB 11/07/08
I very much like the added information I am now seeing in the Newsletter, when I rest over an active link. As you promised, it makes clear whether the link is worth clicking on or not. Thank you! LvS 13/11/08 Congratulations - One of the easiest websites - but what else should I expect from Cambridge! WC 1/12/08 I posted 3 jobs on the website, our first experience with the network, and frankly it surpassed all our expectations. All three jobs have now been filled with excellent people, all of whom applied through the network. Apologies for any confusion caused and once again thank you on behalf of myself and colleagues for a sterling and indispensable service. HB 10/12/08 I have been having some problems with the Cambridge Network website and I thought you might appreciate the feedback as most people won’t say anything to you so you may not find out about issues that users are experiencing! The problems I have experienced are in 3 categories, mostly related to Directory entry editing but the first point covers everything on the site: 1) It is often very slow indeed. Some pages are taking up to 30 seconds to load, some pages take many minutes if I wait for all the pictures to download (it isn’t my network connection, by the way) 2) It is buggy. If I am, for instance, editing my Directory entry I will see fonts changing randomly and uncontrollably, gaps in text appearing and disappearing, and sometimes I will click on a tab and be taken somewhere entirely different. When I have phoned in a couple of times about real problems Peter has answered the phone and very kindly fixed the problems in moments, but it’s clearly not a one-off occurrence. 3) I think there’s a wysiwyg problem in that the Directory editing pages bear only limited resemblance to the actual published Directory page format, and it’s difficult to see what some entry boxes actually do, so it is very difficult to know what the end result will be! It would be really good if we could easily see what the end result will be 4) I understand that you are strongly encouraging members to regularly update their company Directory information. May I politely suggest that this is unlikely to happen much at the moment because of (a) slowness – see point 1, (b) bugginess, see point 2, and (c) if I understand your process correctly we have to submit everything other than the company’s profile page for editorial review before it is allowed to go live. The profile page seems to be unregulated so it is surprising that you want to retain editorial veto over news pages, products/services, etc. Given the non-wysiwyg nature of some of the entry forms (see point 3), and the consequential need to iterate quite a lot for it to look professional, may I suggest that going through editorial approval each time makes iteration impractical and many people will not bother. Perhaps that8 0s who no-one seems to use the additional Directory tabs?! If you don’t really need editorial review, could it be ditched? If you do need to keep it could we at least have a ‘preview’ capability so we can see what it will look like if we do submit it for approval? Then users can tweak the design until it looks good on the site. I would really like to be a good Cambridge Network Corporate Citizen but I’m struggling to be so and I don’t think it is a lack of familiarity with the technology (I have designed several websites and blog sites, albeit much simpler than the Cambridge Network site). I hope the feedback is useful, if I am mistaken about the site and have missed an important point or two please accept my apologies but I’ve just had a really frustrating hour trying to use the Directory entry as it is supposed to be used and I’ve given up! TG 11/02/09 Miscellaneous Keep up the good work, Cambridge Network is a very important marketing tool for us RS 01/03/08 Peter, had a stunning response from just those few contacts. Most appreciated. PK 12/03/08 Sincere thanks for your out of hours help and support. IB 26/03/08 Not sure how much feedback you get but thought I would offer some. Two people responded to our CN news article and both are now volunteering with us. It works! JD 23/04/08 I would recommend the Cambridge Network to any organization looking for high levels of positive Media exposure! MS 26/06/08 Thank you for an enjoyable and productive evening. We gained a useful introduction from the session. DH 30/07/08 Almost 12 months ago I contacted you to assist me with loading my CV onto the Cambridge Network. Cambridge Network was a great success as T contacted me where I am now working as Sales Director. RL 9/09/08 Thank you so much for your introduction to IB. I do not know what will happen between the two of us in the future as we have known each other for too short an amount of time. But we had a very productive meeting today, he is interested by the company's future prospects and is kindly helping me draft the business plan. MO 12/09/08 Yesterday I sat next to DC, exactly what I had wanted to do, and he listened intently about my start-up. He invited me to present to the Cambridge Angels' informal session. And then of course you introduced me - personally! - to all the folks at N, and I enjoyed meeting everyone else as well. It was such a pleasant evening and so tremendously useful. MO 7/10/08 I did not have the chance to thank you on the day itself for your efforts in making our opening day a success, thus I would like to do this via this mail. I was very glad to have you as our opening speaker, and your choice of presentation focus to welcome us back to Cambridge with reference to the history has worked extremely well. BT 10/11/08 Thanks again very much for your efforts in helping us to arrange this visit. It has helped us for our government relations, the visibility within P and was a good motivator to our staff. We are finalizing the internal alignment on the Corporate gateway topics. This is always more work than expected and Steve has spent quite some effort on this. He will come back to you very soon with the required input. We would like to support your idea of the ‘Communicating the Cambridge Cluster’. The level of effort and support you require here is of the right level in these challenging economic times. So please involve us when the project moves ahead. BT 28/01/09 It is with great relief that I am able to report that the decision on my visa has been revisited, and that I have finally been granted leave to remain in the UK (see message below). If there is ever any way that I can help others, whether associated with The Cambridge Network or otherwise, avoid this sort of debacle in the future, please do not hesitate to let me know. Thank you very much for your help in bringing this matter to the attention of the relevant authorities. It has made a very significant difference. AL 5/02/09 Copyright Cambridge Network 2010
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