Our next lunchtime seminar, scheduled for this Thursday on “Mastering your internet strategy” is sold out. We have reached the maximum number of registrations for our smallish venue. If you would like to be added to our waiting list for the event, please email: genevacom@gmail.com
As part of the Certificate of advanced Studies « Visible or invisible: design in international organizations », Ruedi Baur, and the University of Art of Geneva (HEAD – Genève) in partnership with The Graduate Institute Geneva (IHEID) have organised a series of lectures on the issues of representation and design of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations; a series of 10 seminars to better understand issues of images and communication at a global level and to decode interactions between citizens and organizations.
Next one will be the sixth seminar:
Different approaches to design in response to crisis situations
16-17 April 2015, UNHCR, Rue de Montbrillant, Geneva.
This seminar will bring together and analyse the various exemplary projects carried out by designers for humanitarian organizations and other NGOs, and will present the places where research and other experiments are being conducted around the world. Various approaches will be considered, not in order to contrast them, but to assess their relevance in response to the various issues. Analysis of work commissioned, or not commissioned, from designers will allow needs to be assessed and, perhaps, the reasons for certain failures to be understood. The first day of the seminar will consist of a succession of case studies, each lasting 20-30 minutes. The examples will be chosen to show a broad range of approaches and issues. Designers will present their projects in dialogue with their clients, to reveal both the benefits and the drawbacks of each experience. These examples will be enriched by others that concern social sectors but are not actually work commissioned by NGOs. The second day will be devoted to analysis of these cases. Guest observers will endeavour to draw conclusions.
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Two new jobs are now available on our careers page:
—Public relations officer (60%) – Better Cotton Initiative – Geneva or London
—Writer/editor – UNICEF Home based with limited travel to Geneva
Good luck!
The annual Salon eCom will be held at Palexpo in Geneva on 21 & 22 April.
eCom is the largest professional gathering dedicated to web, eCommerce , mobile and digital marketing in Suisse Romande. The 4th edition was held on April 29 , 2014. 2,600 trade visitors were able to come to the meeting with 160 companies (75% in Switzerland , 25% foreign), attending 60 thematic conferences.
IT’s a meeting for leaders, digital managers, web and mobile managers , eCommerce , eBusiness , marketing and communication , IT managers and more.
FIND Geneva are looking for a communications consultant – 6 months post:
Communications Consultant – FIND Geneva
Good luck!
Our workshop on Engaging with your audiences has sold out – but there are still places in the following workshops:
Workshop 2: Advanced social media
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Workshop 3: Writing for the web
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New job openings are online:
Press Officer – CHARLESCANNON, Geneva
Communication Manager – Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining
Good luck!
Know-it-all passport® presents workshops in March for:
Raising Multilingual Children: Foreign Language Acquisition and Children
by world-renowned specialist in education and neuroscience, Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, Ph.D. www.traceytokuhama.com
Tracey is half Japanese-American, half Irish-Native American and is married to an Ecuadorian. Her 3 children aged 22, 19 and 17 speak fluent English, Spanish and German and some French.
Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, author of “Raising Multilingual Children” and 5 other books on the brain and learning, is visiting Switzerland to present her dynamic workshops.
PROGRAM FOR LAUSANNE
Sunday, 22 March, 2015
13h Registration and welcome drink
13h30-15h Ten key factors which influence every student’s success with new languages
15h-15h30 Break with drinks and snacks
15h30-16h45 How children learn languages and Q&A
17h end
PROGRAM FOR GENEVA
Tuesday, 24 March, 2015
18h Registration and welcome drink
18h30-20h Ten key factors which influence every student’s success with new languages
20h-20h30 Break with drinks and snacks
20h30-21h45 How children learn languages and Q&A
22h end
PRIVATE MEETINGS
Wednesday, 25 March, 2015
If you would like to have a private meeting with Tracey, you can discuss your individual situation with her. She will be in a private office at the Geneva Train Station (Cornavin) from 9h-16h30. Appointments are booked in 1/2 hour increments. If you would like one hour, then book 2 adjoining openings. First come, first served.
PRICE FOR WORKSHOPS:
Includes drinks and snacks during the break.
EARLY BIRD SIGN-UP online before midnight on 9 March, 2015:
Fr. 70.-/individual, Fr. 120.-/couple (2 parents of the same family)
ADVANCE BOOKING online from midnight on 9 March, 2015 until midnight on the day before each event:
Fr. 80.-/individual, Fr. 140.-/couple (2 parents of the same family)
AT THE DOOR (CASH ONLY):
Fr. 100.-/individual, Fr. 170.-/couple (2 parents of the same family). Please note that if you wait to pay at the door, there is a risk that you will be turned away if the event is full.
PRICE FOR PRIVATE MEETINGS:
Appointments are booked in 1/2 hour increments at Fr. 150.-. If you would like one hour, then book 2 adjoining openings. There will be room in the office for both parents to have a one-on-one meeting with Tracey. Please send in your family language situation and questions or comments prior to the meeting so your time will be used to its fullest.
A new interesting workshop coming up from Sarah Clark of Clear Thinking – Clear Communication.
Monday 2 and Tuesday 3 March, Lausanne – Visual language and graphic facilitation workshop
An introduction to the techniques of using hand-drawn visuals in a range of professional contexts, including group facilitation, coaching and training. You will learn the basics of visual language and how to use a mix of simple drawings, colour, words and metaphors to develop and share ideas, record presentations and meetings, and engage and energize groups.
Thinking that you can draw is absolutely not a prerequisite— if the techniques interest you and you’re prepared to experiment, please join us. We will spend a large proportion of the day practising and sharing within the group. Engage both your right and your left brain and have fun!
The deadline for registration is 14 February.