What people say about us in 2005

Corporate Gateway 2005

'Congratulations for having run successfully the Corporate Gateway Event. Thanks for inviting me to the luncheon and the VC Association Dinner, during which I managed to secure meetings with Siemens VC, ICI, and CDT. Dr. D from Siemens VC visited us last Thursday, and we had a good discussion. He mentioned that the Corporate Gateway was very well organised and he found it very useful.'
YY 18/10/05

'Last night was excellent, thank you. Met an old client who is interested in our product so maybe some business can come out of this. Also met the CTO of Cambridge Semiconductor. Possible collaboration on joint products.'
PJ 28/09/05

'I am writing to thank you for an excellent experience in Cambridge last week. The programme you put together for me/Smith & Nephew was very appropriate and interesting. In addition, I really appreciate all the work you put into taking the corporate delegates to the different venues and generally looking after us!'
CB 06/10/05


Intellectual Property Special Interest Group

'I enjoyed the evening very much. A lively discussion, and some very interesting questions.'
SP 22/02/05


China Special Interest Group

'Thank you so much for the invitation and the dinner at Kings last night. It was really very interesting and I have managed to get some good contacts which I will follow up shortly'
PVA 11/05/05

'I attended the China Special Interest Group dinner in May and briefly met Anthony Wong, the Commissioner for Design and Innovation and was able to have a further 1.5 hour meeting with him on my recent visit to Hong Kong. This was thanks to the Cambridge Network.'
PG 30/06/05

'Thank you so much for your help! It is so great to talk with professor AH who is from Microsoft Research Ltd. I spent a great evening in your party, meeting with many people who is in different working background. It is a effective way for us to enlarge our community network.'
MH 4/11/05

'Thank you very much for the dinner at Thursday night. We all enjoyed it and think it valuable for both members of Cambridge Network and other companies which run business in Shanghai.'
HP 6/11/05

'Thank you for hosting the Cambridge Network party in Shanghai last Friday.I personally find it very useful.'
ET 8/11/05

'I've already fed back to James what a success I thought this event was and how useful too. I am now back in Shanghai and have today had an extremely good meeting with an organisation that I met for the first time at your event last week.'
JA 8/11/05

'I just wanted to thank you again for organising an excellent event in Shanghai last Thursday. I greatly enjoyed meeting you and am anticipating that the firm will have benefited from the opportunity. I thought your 'interactive' approach to the post-dinner session was well conceived and certainly got people thinking and talking.'
RW 10/11/05

'It was very good to meet with you in Shanghai a few weeks ago - for a first event, I thought it was a real success and some good feedback from the delegates. Congratulations!'
GS 15/11/05


Financial Directors Special Interest Group

'Thank you both for a fantastic evening last night. I think it was one of the most useful and informative sessions I've ever been to. Meeting so many FDs from similar sectors who had such a level of shared experience was excellent. The food and location were also great. So, many thanks for an all round top scoring event.

Obviously the big takeaway for A is...float on AIM in January/Feb. What they don't teach you at Business School!'
MS 15/06/05

'Peter, David, just a quick note to thank you for the session last night, very interesting..'
RD 15/06/05


Bill Buxton Open Meeting

'Last evening was the usual CN star event. It is very rare that I am in a lecture which I don't want to come to the end. I was hoping that Bill Buxton would ignore Hermann Hauser's 'time's up' signals!'
DJ 02/03/05

'Thanks for organising this session. Most fun I've had in a lecture theatre for years.'
AB 02/03/05

'An excellent event last night - well done and thank you.'
DM 02/03/05


Strategies for Success

'It was a pleasure to catch up on things at the CN meeting. The meeting was excellent too incidentally and I made a couple of very interesting contacts.'
SC 10/11/05

'Most interesting presentations, and discussions, yesterday evening...'
RS 9/11/05


Make the Most of your Membership

'Thanks for a very informative day yesterday at CSR and for the useful advice you gave me afterwards at lunch, regarding building PR collateral with which to make friends and influence in a consultancy environment.'
CM 17/03/05


NetWORKERs Forum

'An extraordinary example of the power of networking and sharing experiences, problems and solutions.'
PD 21/06/05

'The course was very inclusive in the way we all had to contribute. We had to focus on our challenges and links to our mission'
SO 21/06/05

'An opportunity to meet and learn from people working in similar environments with similar issues and brainstorm possible solutions. Very stimulating and motivating as it enables you to put your own situation in context with an outsiders point of view'
LR 21/06/05

'Good mix of participants; good event design sequence of discussion/facilitation; good level of interaction; good venue'
PV 21/06/05

'An opportunitiy to share insights about the challenges that similar organisations deal with, and benefit from their collective experience'
RM 21/06/05

'Thank you for another inspiring event in Cambridge. I really enjoyed Alumni Day, meeting the networkers and the discussions.'
TO 22/06/05


Website

'I have had a look as has B and we both found the site a bit busy. It wasn't particularly easy to navigate around and when I did a search for current jobs it brought up various jobs that were posted way back as far as 2000! They seem to be mixed in with jobs posted in 2005 which made it harder to easily determine which jobs were current!'
Anon 11/03/05

(Regarding 'Balancing crime detection and civil liberties' - a Biolines article January 2005)
'I really enjoyed this site! I am in 8th grade and am doing a project on the subject...P.S. I'm from America'
RS 08/04/05

'for a while I have been thinking that the Cambridge Network website is an
excellent website. Very well structured and managed. I really appreciate
that I can post some news and your team tidies it up and gets it on the web
so quickly...You do an excellent job.'
RB 04/05/05

'I need to put job adverts onto sites fairly regularly, and I wish that it could be easier to format these jobs.
A knowledge of html is needed for anything other than pure text display.
However, using bullet points carries a different font size with it from that used by normal text.
When inserting a logo, it always appears part-way down whatever is on the page, on the right-hand side. It is then necessary to cut the code out, and repaste it at the top. This is regardless of where the cursor happened to be.
Inserting a link also needs the code.

It's all a bit cumbersome, especially if I'm trying to add a number of adverts. Some of the sites I use carry a simple formatting bar at the top, which allows Italic, Bold, Underline, a and an HTML link.
Something of the sort would make my life a lot easier!

Another thing about job adverts is that they sometimes need to be revived. Perhaps a facility to archive, rather than just delete entries might also be considered?'
CR 16/05/05


Cafe Networking

'Thanks for an excellent networking event last night, it was the first event we had attended and we made some very useful contacts.
It just goes to show that the Cambridge Network really works'
IT 29/04/05

'many thanks for collaborating with us on the networking event of last week, we felt it went very well and we have had a lot of positive feedback from our members.'
TP 03/04/05

'Thank you for inviting me to speak and attend your Café Networking on Thursday. I thought it was brilliantly run and organised and as far as I was concerned it was a very worthwhile event to have attended. Although I spoke to some familiar focus, I did at least make half a dozen new contacts. Thank you again.'
Walter Herriott 28/11/05



Cambridge Network in the City

'This was a very impressive evening. The subject, of course, is of increasing importance; the role of Taylor Wessing is certainly extensive. Congratulations to all who worked on the preparation.'
RS 04/05/05

'I wanted to thank you for the wonderful evening I had on Thrusday night, I was impressed by the level of the companies presenting, Cambridge Network is a very compelling platform for both entrepreneurs and VCs and I am looking forward to attend future events.'
PF 27/10/05

'Just a note of thanks for an excellent function on Thursday last. I personally made a couple of interesting contacts, so it was a most worthwhile evening.'
MS 24/10/05

'Thank you for inviting me to the event this evening in London. I thoroughly enjoyed myself - it's amazing how many interesting people were there.'
ND 21/10/05


Connection Magazine

'Congratulations on the launch of your newsletter which I received in the mail today. It is going to be a huge success. From a small seed, great things will happen.'
OS 18/08/05

'I note that Cambridge Network has elected to create paper by sending out this new Gateway/Connection magazine. The calendar events printed conveniently stopped at your event on the 8th on Strategies for Success...Can I and any of my colleagues please just have it this additional publication as PDF or a link please, and not in the post? It
seems an old-fashioned thing for a Cambridge high tech cluster networking organisation to be doing. I'll have a chat with some of your founders to ask what they think. Of course it makes CN a bit more money from the advertising, but then if we all did the same, we'd reach saturation. We are already battling hard not to waste time and to manage the enormous amount of paper that randomly comes through the door.'
JH 25/10/05

'Just a note to state that your Publication is an excellent supplement to the Cambridge News Letter. As a Publication, you can provide greater depth with photographs and a full story on an important event. The Sensor Technology Event was news to me, and a good review - plus earning advertising revenue!'
RS 02/11/04


Miscellaneous

'I have been offered the positon of Marketing Specialist at T which I found by looking on the Cambridge Network website'
JH 05/05/05

'I was in the West Coast recently and got a meeting with Boeing through Peter!'
LD 21/02/05

'just want to thank you for your time last Friday to review benefits of membership. You have developed a truly marvellous service for Cambridge. On behalf of RAND Europe I am glad to be part of it.'
LS 14/04/05

'we have found Cambridge Network very useful in promoting our events and recruitment - we certainly wish to continue using its services.'
SR 04/05/05

'Thank you for all your hard work and unwavering dedication.
I really enjoyed the barbecue yesterday, another excellent event that you have arranged!'
SW 25/08/05