General updates from BBN Central
We hope to go live with the site before the end of October. Academy attendees were lucky to get a first glimpse of the site in progress and so far feedback has been good.
Recent visitors to the lounge will have noticed some news updates have been posted and also a new section added called Media. We'll start adding video content soon, in fact you can view the first post now....
The creative team prepared this video for the BBN Owners' Conference in May 2015 as an update on what the team had been working on over the last 12 months.
This hilarious composition of sock puppet characters will have you wanting to watch it over and over again. In fact we recommend you watch it at least 5 times to follow each of the character's antics including visits to the bathroom, interactions with other sock puppet colleagues and drinking whisky. Let's hope they make a sequel!
The next issue of our newsletter will focus on events in B2B marketing. Ed Davis from Fifth Ring in Houston is our guest Editor and contributes a really interesting article on creating a multi-sensory event strategy. We'll also here plenty from our event experts M&a and will be using Turtl for publishing the issue.
We are pleased to welcome two new coordinators this month. Click on their name to send them a welcome email!
Nathalie Hakansson joins as the new coordinator at AplusM in Sweden. Originally from Sweden, Nathalie's role at the agency is production manager and she spent the last year living and working in Italy as a Brand Strategy Consultant.
Jan Hermann replaces Jan Smikmator at Marco as their BBN coordinator. Jan is a senior account manager and has been with BBN Czech for nearly 6 years. Before that he worked at an agency specialising in healthcare. Some of you would have met Jan at the recent BBN Academy.
Monique Bijnen is temporarily taking over as Referro's BBN coordinator until Kirsten returns from maternity leave. She has been at Referro for 5 months and is an Account Manager
Please check out their full profiles in the Members' Lounge.
LinkedIn Profiles
Thanks to the additional 19 colleagues who have BBNified their LinkedIn profile. Taking us up to a total of 96. We still have some way to go until we reach the real number of 700+, but we are getting there.
If you haven’t yet, It takes just a couple of minutes to add BBN to your profile. Guidelines have kindly been provided by True and are available from your BBN coordinator.
Twitter Stats - Sept 15
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LinkedIn Stats - Last 30 days
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Please engage with our posts and updates as often as you can.
Twitter Takeovers
Another successful month as followers and engagement increases with our coordinator 'Twitter Takeover Tweeters'. In the last two months (Aug/Sept) our followers have increased by nearly 100... so thanks to Francis (Fifth Ring Singapore), Miriam (wob), Laura G (Fifth Ring Houston) and Grace (BBN Central) for doing such a great job!
I'm pleased to announce that the new C-Map toolkit shared at Academy is now available for download in the Members’ Lounge.
The C-Map team has done an amazing job over the last few months in getting the tools refined and finalised for BBN use. The team very deservedly won Best Task Team of the Year at The Golden Bees and a BIG thanks goes out to the whole team and the key contributors Patrick, Rik and Anol for committing a lot of time and effort to bring us some really valuable tools.
Anol's 'Award winning' presentation at the Academy was also voted the 'Most Memorable Session' and can be found in the Academy event section in the Members’ Lounge.