Our memory and memorability workshop facilitator is Jennifer Goddard, director of the Buzan Centre – Australia / New Zealand and co-founder of Mindwerx International is she's uniquely qualified to help people explore their memories and improve them on a practical level so that we all can be innovative, creative and memorable.  She will also be sharing the secret to good memory and memorability.

We'll be doing our normal networking game at the start, and then Jennifer will take over and that's where the fun will start.  For one of the networking activities, we'll be working with 'wine whirls'. 

Wine whirls came about when Jennifer's company Mindwerx were doing their annual challenge of doing something different with the Christmas cards.  They wanted to help their clients and supporters stimulate creativity and give something fun for them to do over the festive season.  Wine whirls are coloured beads on a piece of wire (pictured below) and are made by the Vocational Class at St Vincent School for the Deaf in South Africa. You can read the full story of 'Creativity Wired' and St Vincent School for the Deaf.

'Creativity Wired' turned out to be a great exercise in creative marketing.  They blogged about it on their Fuzz2buzz website and invited recipients to send in their photos of their most creative uses for the wine whirls:

Mindwerx International received a lot of positive feedback from this campaign overall and it certianly proved to be memorable.

All Networx attendees for 'Memory & Memorability' will receive one of these wine whirls for one of the networking activities.  What you do with it after the event, is up to you!

Here are a couple of photos from the networking with creativity activity:

More photos from the Networx 'Memory and Memorability' networking event.

What:   Networx Brisbane networking seminar event:  “Memory and Memorability”
When:   Thursday 19th November, 2009
Time:    6.00pm – 8.00 pm
Where:  Press Club, 339 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
 

Everyone wants a better memory, but perhaps even more importantly everyone wants to be more memorable - particularly if it leads to greater success in life.  In this fun and fast paced workshop you will learn to enhance your memory, using the same principles applied by Memory Olympians as well as ordinary people with extra-ordinary memories. 

Building on the flip side of having a great memory you will also learn how to develop the quality or state of being memorable. Memorability is vital for success in almost everything you do. 

Marketing and communication professionals, sales people, business owners, entrepreneurs, job candidates - everyone can achieve greater success by developing the ability to be positively memorable.  Marketing campaigns, business promotions, presentations, in fact any event or organisation that applies memorability principles will be more successful.

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Jennifer Goddard also taught us we can take this and learn how to mind map.

So you can turn a boring list...

...into a work of art:

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As Jennifer says, mind maps are the 'swiss army knife' for your brain and memory!

How to Mind Map

Event details: 'Memory and Memorability'

Jennifer Goddard, Director, Buzan Centre: Australia & NZ's presentation notes for: 'Memory and Memorability'

Ignite PR 's blog post about Networx's 'Memory and Memorability' event

Networx blog post: Networking with Creativity at Networx's 'Memory and Memorability'

Networx blog post: Networx Brisbane to share secret to good memory and memorability