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Can Social Media enhance the Ideas Scheme? – Workshop Session Friday 20th January 2012 – Part Two

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James Shewry HSBCCarrying on from Monday’s blog post, we continue the summary of the workshop event based on Social Media and the Ideas Scheme. Following Chris Bolton’s presentation, James Shewry of HSBC then gave an overview of their Ideas Scheme and highlighted the successes delivered since they moved to a social media platform in 2011. This highly informative presentation explained the benefits of allowing employees to collaborate and comment on ideas raised and demonstrated how implemented ideas had increased. Continue reading →

Can Social Media enhance the Ideas Scheme? – Workshop Session Friday 20th January 2012 – Part One

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Last Friday, HSBC and ideasUK hosted a networking meeting at the HSBC headquarters in Canary Wharf, looking at the topic of Social Media and the Ideas Programme. Social Media and Ideas Schemes

The event was well supported by those from both the public and private sector and a great interactive session ensued. Continue reading →

ideasUK free Networking Event – 20th January 2012, London – All Welcome

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ideasUK are hosting our first networking event of 2012. The theme will be:

Can Social Media enhance Ideas Schemes?

Everyone is welcome to attend including non members of ideasUK to this free event, but places are limited. For more information and to book your place, please email us info@ideasuk.com

Friday 20 January 2012

London, E14

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Events Coming Up

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Well not that Christmas and the New Year is over it is time to look at the events coming up in 2010.

Firstly we have a joint networking session with the Best Practice Club in Heysham Lancashire on the 18th March, further details and how to book will be available in the near future.

International Ideas Week is from 10th – 14th this year and once again we will be holding events all over the country. If you would like some promotional material, please contact us at info@ideasuk.com

Even though it is still 11 months away, planning continues for the annual conference which this year takes place in Cardiff on the 10 / 11th November. Booking for this is now open, just contact us for costs and a booking form.

Some other dates for your diary, Idea of the Year entries are to be sent to us by the 30th April. Last year we had over 95 ideas into the competition and the ideas were of a high quality. Entry forms are available in the members area of the website.

The annual survey will be open for input in the next few weeks, we will send you a link to the website when it is available.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need more information for our event.

Public Sector Networking Event

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On the 30th April, we held our first Public Sector / Local Authority networking event in Birmingham. We had speakers from the Identity and Passport Service as well as the District of Easington Council.

The day was spent looking at the different aspects of managing a suggestion scheme and there were group exercises around evaluation and marketing a programme within organisations.  Continue reading →