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

Member Feedback

Cambridge Network receives regular feedback on the things members like - and don't - about our service. Read some of our members' recent 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 nights 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

Cleantech Special Interest Group

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

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

Cafe 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

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

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 like 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

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

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. 2 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 Angel's 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