Another interesting TEDx event  will be held on Tuesday 19 February 2013 at the Salle Centrale Madeleine, Geneva

TEDxPlainpalais is a local, independently organized event in Geneva, Switzerland, that strives to re-create the unique experience found at TED, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers congregate to share what they are most passionate about. At its core, the fundamental goal of TED is to foster and spread great ideas. The theme of this TEDx is centered around breaking the MYTH that you are just a single drop of water in this ocean and that you cannot make an impact on the world. THE POWER OF ONE.

Speakers include: Eddie Obeng, Taiba Rahim, Nadine Hack, Tim Clark, René Carayol,Gib Bulloch, Mark Strom, Jesús Martin-Garcia, Melody Atil, and Tamer Mustafa.

For more information, consult the site TEDxPlainpalais.

Visual language and strategic illustration

Lausanne/Geneva area, Thursday 14 and Friday 15 March

For anyone who wants to learn the basics of visual language and how to use a mix of simple drawings, colour, words and metaphors in a professional context. Engage both your right and your left brain and have fun!

The workshop will be facilitated by Sabine Soeder and by Sarah Clark.

Further information (pdf)>>

The Swiss Community Managers Association is organising an interesting event about “Social Media and Music” on Monday 21 January 2013 in Lausanne.

The event will be organised in French and will address the following questions:

• Les médias sociaux sont-ils devenus incontournables pour les professionnels de la musique?
• Comment s’y prennent-ils pour gérer leur présence en ligne? Ont-ils recruté un Community Manager?
•  Quelles sont les pratiques et les tendances dans ce domaine?

Below is a preview of the programme:

18h15 Accueil
18h30 Introduction et relance des projets SCMA
18h45 Présentation de Matt Zschokke et Samuel Vuillermoz (MX3)
19h10 Présentation de Yann et Alain
19h35 Présentation de Romain Gomis (Paléo Festival Nyon)
20h00 Table ronde avec Joram Vuille (responsable du site repreZent.ch) et Pierre Journel (producteur de La Chaîne Guitare et de The Guitar Channel)
20h20 Surprise Live!
20h30 Apéro

Entry fee: CHF 30.- / non members

For further information and to sign up check the SCMA website.

Happy Holidays to all. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a great start to the New Year.

See you in 2013!

World Usability Day was founded by the User Experience Professionals’ Association to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use.

This year’s event will focus on the usability of financial systems and will take place on Thursday 8 November at 6pm, at Hotel Bristol, rue du Mont-Blanc, in Geneva.

Confirmed speakers are:

– Yann Ranchere, Anthemis “Finance 2.0”

– Florian Egger, Telono “Comparative eye-tracking study of banking websites”

The event is free but please sign up via Linkedin: http://linkd.in/QtGRRT

 Roger de Weck, head of Swiss Radio and Television, will speak about “Globalisation, numérisation, interaction – les trois révolutions médiatiques” at the Graduate Institute, Geneva on Wednesday 7 November 2012, 18h30.

The event is free, will be in French and is open to the public.

Registration and more information here>>

‘The Power of Creative Collaboration’ – a workshop about how to use new approaches to collaboration to unlock value for business.

9h00-16h30 Wednesday 28^th November 2012, Geneva

Cost: 375 CHFs for GCN members, 495 CHFs for non-members (if you are interested in attending, please write to us at genevacom@gmail.com for the promo code)

As the world opens up, business is becoming increasingly social and in the process opening new valuable ways of collaborating. Today’s best communicators will also be the best solution finders. ‘The Power of Creative Collaboration’ workshop is a highly interactive and pragmatic day that uses the latest learning techniques to show participants how to use new approaches to collaboration to unlock hidden value for their business.

It will showcase techniques of Open Innovation, Peer to Peer coaching and Creative Collaboration to solve real life problems. Previous events have kick-started successful new ventures for Orange, Lego, P&G and Virgin. The event is available to 32 participants maximum so they receive highly personalised coaching from the 4 experienced facilitators.

For more information>>

To register click here>>

An exhibition that may be of interest to members:

Please join us for the launch of the IRIN photo and film exhibition  “Our Lives – local communities confront global challenges” on 23 October 2012 at 1:00pm in Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations.

Following brief remarks from the hosts,  there will be a short film screening and a discussion with Editor-in-Chief Obinna Anyadike on IRIN‘s work in humanitarian reporting (venue: room IX)

Participants interested and without a UN security badge must confirm their attendance at least 24 hours in advance to trevelline@un.org or 022 917 42 09.