Rumsfeld and Wheeler quoted at July’s Bristol Business Network event
How would these two people come to be quoted at a networking event? Well – not only were they born on the 9th July but when you look at the quotes you’ll see that they really do apply to networking We go networking to find out the unknowns – even those we do not know we don’t know (I’ll stop there!) and also to discover something strange and I shall refer to strange as something out of the ordinary, something new to us – and this is networking in a nutshell – by meeting people and asking questions, listening and being interested you will discover things that will positively impact your business or even better something that can help/benefit someone else.
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know. – Donald Rumsfeld 
“If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day”. – John Archibald Wheeler ( theoretical physicist known for popularizing the term “black hole“, for coining the terms “quantum foam“, “wormhole“, and “it from bit“, and for hypothesizing the “one-electron universe“)
At the Bristol Business Network event on 9th July at Redwood Hotel and Country Club – our last event there – more on that later – those attending filled a room with their enthusiasm, conversations, knowledge and a huge amount of laughter, along with knowing some unknowns and discovering something new (strange)!
The event began with Ken Abbott – Redwing Excel who delivered a fabulous seminar Missing a Trick: Is software really helping your business? Ken covered the history and background to why we have software and hardware, talking about the Altair 8800, he showed some videos – Steve Ballmer’s 1986 one for Microsoft 1 and an troductory one for Excel – version one, there were even software developer jokes! But what was apparent was that with some expert advice on what you would like to achieve then Ken and the Redwing Excel team can make it happen can and really help your business become more effective and efficient. This was clearly demonstrated with the working examples that Ken showed – Excel as targeting tool for marketing purposes in a Optician supplier and then personalised quote system for a manufacturer of fans… 
In fact as Ken summed up – The Light bulb moment when you say or hear someone say “There must be an easier or quicker way of doing this” then there will be and Ken will know how! Among those at the event….. 
Della Hudson – Hudson Accountants Our 10 minute speaker
Looking forward to the next event on 13th August – with a super seminar “Networking secrets revealed” before THE networking lunch
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