Aide Memoire
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009Most days I’m either sat at the keyboard, or I’m out and about and meet a handful of people. Few enough that I can usually remember who they are, as I file away business cards & write short follow-up e-mails the next day. Some days are different.
At networking events (OpenCoffee, Social Enterprise events,Unconferences, etc.) you can easily talk to a dozen interesting people in a morning, or twice that in a day, with whom you find a common interest, and think you may be collaboratig with at some point. How do you keep track of these conversations until you have a chance to follow up? How do they?
Tick the Boxes
Time for a bit of DIY. I printed off a form with tick boxes for all the likely areas of conversation (relating to projects with which I’m involved), and for follow-up action or contact. After a conversation you add the contact’s name, & tick the relevant boxes, as well as making a copy and handing it out to them.
Here’s one I did for the Ubuntu Launch party last month, at BBC Manchester:
Aide Memoire Fri 24 April 2009
Tonight, at the Ubuntu Jaunty Release party at BBC Manchester, I talked to @RichardSmedley about:
- Third Sector IT
- Cloud computing
- Hackspace NorthWest
- “Small Steps to Sustainability”
- Permaculture
- Co-working
- Credit Unions
- A new website
- Consultancy work
__________________
I will be:
- Commenting on http://goodGNUs.org/
- e-mailing rs@m6-it.org
- phoning +44 (0)77 94 56 07 14
- following twitter.com/RichardSmedley
- following Identica.com/RichardSmedley
- connecting to http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardsmedley
Notes
So, there you go. A bit Heath-Robinson? It’s a simple, low-tech solution to an organisational problem. If it works for you, please feel free to copy and pass on. If you think it’s a daft idea, feel free to laugh, laughter is healthy :-)
