Dear Networkers,
As the chairman of Ecademy Belgium, I publish a regular Ecademy Newsletter. Here's the summer 2004 edition.....It has been a very good summer for Ecademy Belgium and myself. I hope you had a great holiday and that you are ready for a fresh season of proactive networking. In this newsletter we look back at the events of the last couple of months, and we look forward to the activities of the next months. We also bring you the latest Ecademy Partnerships. Ecademy Belgium now has 103 members, and I invite all 239 ecademists living in Belgium or interested in our country to join the club.
Coming events & networking opportunities:
07/09/2004: The Thomas Power Networking for Life Workshop
In this Networking for Life Workshop, Thomas Power, the father of ecademy.com reveals all his secrets, suggestions, techniques and hopes for the future of networking, whether through Ecademy or through life in general. Thomas is a very inspiring speaker. Register now. The Networking for Life Workshop covers (among many other topics) how to practice the 10 steps of successful Networking, how to become a great matchmaker, how to make you more attractive for others to connect with and how to connect in a minute with the other members on your course that day.
02/10/2004: Ecademy & YES group event: Aboodi Shabi's "Living Soulfully"
Ecademist Aboodi Shabi aka "the soul man!" is one of the UK's best known personal coaches. He has been featured in the UK press and radio several times, and is highly regarded as a speaker and master coach. He has been working in personal development for the past twenty years, working with hundreds of people across the world, both individually and in groups. His style is easy, warm, funny, direct, challenging and compassionate. Register Now. Aboodi will talk about Living Soulfully, more on his website at http://www.aboodi.net
19/10/2004: Networking Event with Bärli von Toggenburg & Frank Wouters
Bärli von Toggenburg: "Bike for Help - How an individual can change the world." Bärli is the founder and chairman of the Colour the World Foundation. The Colour the World Foundation is an international fund raising organisation whose main goal is to improve the life of leprosy sufferers all over the world, and more particulary in Asia. In order to raise money, Colour the World runs a series of different fundraising programs. In the Bike for Help program Bärli undertook a 9300 km solo-bicycle expedition from India to Switzerland raising funds for leprosy patients. Bärli will tells his how you can develop a crazy idea and dream into a big succesfull venture. Register Now.
Frank Wouters: "Classic Marketing is dead: now what?" De principes waarop de traditionele marketing gebaseerd is, zijn fout. Frank Wouters, de Bedrijfsnar, zal de grondslagen van Value Centred Marketing uit de doeken doen: een andere manier om marketing te bedrijven. Deze is aanzienlijk succesrijker bij challengers en de introductie van nieuwe producten en efficiënter bij marktleiders. Toch is Value Centred Marketing geen bizarre, alternatieve of wazige theorie, maar het volgt een zeer strakke structuur en is in wezen zeer eenvoudig. Register Now.
03/11/2004: The Ecademy Smart Networking Workshop with Jan 'Networking Coach' Vermeiren
Jan 'Networking Coach' Vermeiren: In the “Smart Networking” workshop you will learn some do’s and dont’s concerning networking, how to overcome reluctance to contact other people, which tools you can use to maintain contact,... Next to this more obvious topics you will learn how to network more intelligently. This means: to use your network to reach your goals or to perform your daily tasks with less effort, more result and more fun ! The workshop is very (inter)active: you will be thinking, doing, communicating and sharing with the other participants. And by doing this you are in fact already networking. The result of the workshop is 1- More insights how to network more efficiently, more intelligently and with more fun 2- A personal networking action plan 3- New and/or better contacts. Register Now.
Past events:
24/08/2004: The Ecademy Belgium summer Networking Event - with Lee Gallacher
Lee Gallacher: Offshore Racing for Life. Lee is a man with great courage, and has decided to become the fastest person with a disability to race single-handed and Non-Stop around the Globe in the 2008 Vendee Globe. Lee brought us a great and inspirational story. Thanks again Lee and all the best with your ventures!!
22/06/2004: The Ecademy Belgium Networking Event with Glenn Watkins
Glenn Watkins, talked about the past, present and future of Ecademy. Watch the video here.
17/06/2004: IT Works seminar on Social Business Networks
Hendrik Deckers presented on the IT Works seminar on Social Business Networks & Software's. Here are the slides:
The Different Social Business Software's and Networks - June 2004 (8.27 MB) An overview of the market players in the space of Social Business Software's & Networks. I introduce 4 categories and describe the major players in these categories. download takes a while.
Best Practices in Online Social Business Networking - June 2004 (481 KB) Where is Online Networking going - how to do it. An overview of some good tips & guidelines.
Partnerships:Testimonials Page:
The Young Europen Entrepreneurs Regatta 2004
Emmanuel Baeten, from Company in Blue, presents the Young European Entrepreneurs Regatta, a sailing competition with an intense learning and social programme for young entrepreneurs and young business people. The YEE Regatta is a yearly sailing event of very high organisational quality, focusing exclusively on young entrepreneurs. Every sailing race implies strong "team building". Bringing like-minded Entrepreneurs together enhances "networking". But the YEE Regatta goes further and includes a punctual but intense programme of business seminars and lectures. The general theme for the seminars of the 2004 race is "Organising and Financing Innovation in your Company". Ecademy Belgium will be presenting one of the seminars about online & off line networking and will give an overview of the online business networking space.
ZI-BIZ | Zakelijk Internet
Dominique Dewitte, the publisher of ZI-BIZ | Zakelijk Internet, will bring a special Ecademy section on his business portal and newsletter, that will feature the latest and most interesting news from the world of networking (online, offline, platforms, trends, ...).
Geert Conard has collected a very nice list of testimonials. Do you want to know why people join Ecademy, and how they incorporate networking in their day-to-day business? Read on here... Here are the 17 reasons to become aThe Forum:PowerNetworker™
Ecademy Belgium is a business networking club. The discussion and promotion of commercial goods and services is encouraged. So if you have any services to offer, are looking for some new partners, want to recruit new people or want to do any other type of business, don't hesitate to use the forum. This is the best place to get your messages out to all of us. Post your messages here.
With my warmest best wishes and kind regards and looking forward to meeting you all in person very soon.
Cheers, Hendrik.
Hendrik Deckers blog
Chairman Ecademy Belgium
Managing Director Close Partners
