This week’s Essex Business Forum meeting was busy and bustling with lots of members back from holiday. With 22 members in attendance. Brian Painter of Pilgrim Hypnotherapy (standing in for Aidan Squire of Quality HR) chaired confidently. Guiding us all through the proceedings. We had apologies for absence from Aidan Squire, Matt Barry, Carmel Jane,…
Good turnout, 22 in all. We inducted the Flying Bee in the guise of Alan Heggie, his first day as a member. Welcome Alan. Terry Maylin, still standing in for Scott Griffiths, announced the winner of the Performance League this month and by way of a very pleasant change it was Jill Willis; congratulations Jill…
At last a good turnout in August, 22 members present with 3 visitors. Sharon Conway from the Flying Bee whose application to join the group has been accepted – congratulations Sharon. Two first time guests, Paul Hughes from Commercial Energy and Suzette Howe from Triple Windows. The Ed Slot was once again this week courtesy…
Chairman’s Blog, Thursday 18th August 2016. Again decimated by holidays it was nonetheless a turnout of 18. Also once again it was a very successful meeting. I will avoid making sartorial comment this week. Turning up as I did in shorts sporting a knee decoration that looked very much like a rare steak I will…
This week’s Essex Business Forum meeting may well have been all about the stand-ins; but that did not diminish its success. Brain Painter of Pilgrim Hypnotherapy (doing his best impersonation of Aidan Squire of Quality HR) chaired confidently, and guided us all through the proceedings. Headlines to take away and savour include; 1. Paul Booth…
Well, August is upon us as is the holiday season. It was therefore probably a good result for there to be 18 of us present including Alex Pink who has made an application to join. A call to Arms! Could all members who are not on holiday make every effort this month to attend every…
20 members present plus Alex Pink, visiting us for the third time with a promise next week to make an application to join. A good turnout given that the holiday season is upon us once again. As with our previous 2 weeks when we had even better turnout, there was a buzz to the meeting.…
Chairman’s Blog Thursday 10th July 2014. A good turnout, 20 members plus 1, Vivienne’s guest Aaron Foster who deals with commercial property investments; The Ed Slot had David Plumley, back to basics and extolling the virtues of 1-2-1. His challenge for everyone, to arrange a 1-2-1 before they left the meeting, seemed to have a…
Windows XP was released in 2001 … and it is still on over 30% of all PCs out there. It is a testament to how “loved” it has been. Support for Windows XP is ending on April 8, 2014. If you’re running this version after that, you won’t get security updates for Windows. Microsoft have been…
Microsoft’s latest version of it’s ubiquitous “Office” product now presents us with a choice. We can either go for the yearly subscription model by choosing Office 365 (in one of its many variations) or we can instead pay once, up-front, for the full Office 2013. Whether for home or business the correct choice is not…