Personality testing in the workplace: gimmick or gamechanger?
“We’re going to be doing personality tests in our session next week!”
Live events are back, but is webcasting still important?
Webcasting has become an increasingly popular way to reach audiences beyond the physical venue of a live event. Whether it’s a conference, concert, sporting event, or any other gathering, webcasting allows people from all over the world to tune in and experience the event in real-time.
Project Gigabit contract award unlocks 215,000 home expansion of CityFibre’s networks across Cambridgeshire
CityFibre has been awarded a major contract under government’s £5bn Project Gigabit programme to subsidise rollout of ‘gigabit capable’ infrastructure to rural properties that would otherwise be excluded from commercial rollouts.
Three important questions in tough times
We’re big fans of asking the right questions - especially in tough times. To arrive at clear, shared and powerful goals, you have to be unafraid to ask the right questions, even if it feels a little uncomfortable.
How to avoid public speaking nightmares
If you want to give yourself the best chance of smashing a presentation, here is an easy trick Simon Hall...
Volunteers, the key to success
As Crossways, It Takes a City's winter emergency accommodation project, closes for another year, the team celebrate the support provided by their amazing volunteers.
DragonLight launches new Crowdfunder to help finish feature film Six Inches of Soil
Last year we raised enough money to cover the cost of shooting the film. Our small team filmed on the road for 42 days, shot over 120 hours of footage, in nine different English counties. We interviewed over twenty farmers and other experts, attended farming conferences, protests, filmed with sheep, pigs, cows and our unsung heroes - the microbes, fungi, beetles, earthworms and other critters of…
Are references worth the paper they are written on?
From a dearth of candidates, new behaviours like ghosting or having to redesign roles to accommodate hybrid or remote working, hiring can be a real struggle. One of the more perennial challenges during the recruitment process is taking references. Are they worth the trouble?
Live Stream dials in Nasa astronaut Kayla Barron
Cambridge Filmworks and The Cambridge Festival looks to space with a live discussion from Houston with Astronaut Kayla Barron. To watch the full event please visit: https://www.cambridgefilmworks.com/live-from-nasa-rocket-women/
How to stop a difficult situation at work going from bad to worse
Think back to the last time you had to manage a difficult or unpleasant situation at work – like making a person redundant, or taking them through a disciplinary procedure. How was it? Could it have gone better?
Sable&Hawkes deliver event website for Cambridge Ion Channel Forum (CICF)
Metrion Biosciences and AstraZeneca are co-organising the Cambridge Ion Channel Forum (CICF) taking place on Wednesday 10th May 2023. Sable&Hawkes were asked to support the promotion of the event by producing a discreet event website.
Praise, Criticism, and Credibility
Do you want what you say and write to have more credibility? This is an important way to achieve that, even if it requires the painful story of a trip to the dentist...
New World Spirit at the PROI Worldwide Summit
Sue recently attended her first PROI Worldwide summit in New Delhi, India. The theme for the event was ‘New World Spirit’ – celebrating everything that India represents as a truly incredible country full of opportunity.
Beavers to Help Protect Villages from Flooding
Two new “dam” good beaver enclosures to be built thanks to funding from Environmental partnership.
Star Shine Night Walk is back in Cambridge on Saturday 13 May! Be part of this fantastic event setting the city streets aglow for hospice care!
Have fun at the Star Shine Night Walk in Cambridge on 13 May 2023 whilst supporting people in Cambridgeshire living with an advanced serious illness or other life-limiting condition
Moving your IT to the Cloud? Why not Private Cloud?
I am sure you are aware organisations are moving to the “cloud” and you probably have some cloud systems already. Most of us do!
AudioTelligence launches Orsana, the first universal assistive listening device
Orsana is the first universal assistive listening device designed to help everyone hear clearly in noise - with or without hearing aids.
XJTAG Makes Boundary Scan Project Creation Easier & Faster
XJTAG® announces a new release of its world-leading JTAG boundary scan tools. XJTAG 3.13 offers engineers several benefits – an efficient way to deal with build variants, faster categorising of I2C devices, aided checking of net categorisations, adding images to dialogs.
Strong results as IQGeo continues to drive revenue and profit growth
IQGeo Group plc - a market leading provider of geospatial productivity and collaboration software for the telecoms and utility industries, is pleased to announce its final audited results for the twelve months ended 31 December 2022.
Sable&Hawkes design new ward environment For Addenbrookes Hospital
Working with CUH Arts – Cambridge University Hospitals’ arts-in-health programme and Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Sable&Hawkes and writer Hannah Jane Walker researched the flora, history and folklore of a typical English cottage garden to record them in digital illustration and poetry for a new ward environment design at Addenbrookes hospital.
The "Hidden" opportunity in low-loss materials for 5G
When thinking of the applications of low-loss materials in 5G devices, the first that comes to mind for most is 5G smartphones.
Stand up for public speaking success
Want to make a real impression with your public speaking and presentations? Then be sure to stand up.
Beyond the Horizon
A Cabinet seat for the new Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology and ‘record-breaking public R&D spending’ can only be good things. But will they deliver what the UK R&D sector needs?
EdTech trends to watch
Teaching channels and student support have changed massively, not only due to the pandemic. Some of that change was arguably overdue, and much of it is here to stay.