What people say about us in 2002

'I was expecting a renewal invitation and invoice, but do not recall having received one. Please advise. I think this is a great network, and I intend to continue being a member if you'll continue to have me.' DS 21/12/02

'Thanks for your advice during our recent phone conversation and your subsequent e-mail. I had not appreciated that I was listed as an Individual Member and not on the Corporate side, and have immediately upgraded to Corporate Membership. Lets hope that starts to bring in the calls! S***** has been extremely helpful in that and I would like to pass on my commendation for her superb response and help, and my thanks to her.' MW-C 22/12/02

'P**** well done to you and your team for achieving such high standards. A tough target to match for 2003 but I am sure if any team can, yours will! ' PC 19/12/02

'Thanks to you for the opportunity to get involved in Cambridge Network in the City. I walked away having arranged a provisional meeting with xyz. I don't know where you found him, however, he is probably the key person in one of our top commercial targets so the evening was a total success' GS 01/11/02

'Just a quick note to thank you for last night's Cambridge Network in the City dinner and networking event. The right size, the right atmosphere and commercially useful' AP 31/10/02

'Firstly, I found the skills exchange/cafe networking event most useful and would definitely come again .... incidently xyz have contacted me via the CV I uploaded on your site. JS 30/10/02

'Just to say, thanks for your help recently. My CV was noticed on the Cambridge Network site and I now have a fantastic job. I could not belive how lucky I was, but it shows it works so thanks again.' JH 25/10/02

'Please have a look at P18 of today's FT. It reports a picture of success for an early stage Cambridge materials technology company. The technology, the market and the method of exploitation are all discussed in a favourable light.

I have had a fair amount of experience at getting good news out via journalists and TV in the past. Your event set a perfect scene against which I could build an attractive and interesting story.

Thank you for pulling together the forum to allow me to 'send my message' to the press. It was real added value activity from the Cambridge Network.' RP 2/10/02


'Just to thank you for organising the Gateway event last week. It looks as though it will provide a good intro to @@@@ for us, which is what we had hoped for.' JP 30/9/02

'What a splendid evening last Wednesday. Informative, entertaining and affirming the basis of spectacular innovation. I thoroughly enjoyed both the formal session and the networking afterwards. Thank you very much indeed.' MS 30/9/02

'Let me thank you again for inviting us to the Corporate Gateway event. It was most valuable. Both Air Products and Boots are investigating potential avenues to co-operate.' DL 29/9/02

'Just to say a big thank you again to you and your CN colleagues for putting things together at Duxford [3G Open Meeting]. Very successful and very enjoyable too. Thanks!' CM 18/7/02

'For fun, I did a search of my inbox to see how significant Cambridge Network is in my e-life. About 400 of the 3400 messages in my inbox (12%) contain the phrase 'Cambridge Network'' PB 10/7/02

'Just wanted to thank you and the team for the [NetWORKERs] forum last week. The open approach of the Cambridge Network team in sharing what there expereinces had been encouraged all the particpants to let their creative juices rip. As well learning a lot I also really enjoyed it which was a bonus!' CD 4/07/02

'I am disappointed for the third year running to receive an incompetent reminder letter from you for our membership fee. Your invoice CNxxxx was paid on the 17 July 2002 and our chq number @@@@ has cleared through our bank account. Your reminder letter is dated 9 August and refers to your invoice dated the 26 July 2002 when the actual original invoice was dated 19 June 2002. SC 19/6/02

'[The China Special Interest Group] was a very successful and thought provoking event. I thouroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot in the meantime. I made several useful contacts. I look forward to applying the knowledge and experience I gained from the event to expand our company's business in China in the near future' CZ 1/6/02

'A valuable hidden benefit of joining the CN is its impact on Google search engine ranking. The Google search engine's market supremacy is based on its principle of ranking search results based on how well sites are networked - i.e. those sites with the most links to other sites come out top. With over a thousand members, the CN site ranks well in Google searches. Before joining the CN community, I spent some time trying to get myself and my company listed with search engines. Back then if you typed either 'Geoff Marlow' or 'Aligned Agility' into Google, we came out somewhere on page seven of the results. Now try either search and you will see the impact of joining the Network. GM 5/5/02

'One of the services that I find useful is the weekly newsletter that you put out. However, I am becoming increasingly frustrated by the way Cambridge Network is being used by some members. I have taken the time to review last week's issue in order to demonstrate my point. The first 8 items are genuine news of what is going on in CN and in Cambridge. Then interspersed with genuine news items we have companies submitting so called press releases which are simply free advertising.' PG 1/5/02

'Tonight's [Prospects for Cambridge] Open Meeting was the best one yet' PH 10/04/02

'A note to say thank you for an excellent Materials Matter [Special Interest Group] dinner on Monday night. I'm clearly a convert to the cause. I had some very interesting conversations - some of which may well yield money over time. We would be pleased to be involved in more such events, and help deepen people's understanding of the potential of new materials.' ML2 11/03/02

'Congratulations on another excellent Cambridge Network event. The best networking that I have had so far in Cambridge. Very impressed.' ML 6/03/02

'Thank you for an interesting evening, good food and the helpful notes! I thought that this was the Cambridge Network at its best.'AM 22/02/02

'My company NN has just joined the Cambridge Network. We are only one year old but contacts through the Network which have aready proved fruitful make me optimistic about the future' PK 17/01/02

'Talks are underway to attract new airlines to Cambridge Airport... two recent studies - one by an independent consultant and one by the Cambridge Network - have shown that there is very strong demand for travel to a variety of European destinations, Particularly Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris from Cambridge' Cambridge Evening News 9/01/02