Spotlight on…. New College Swindon October 6, 2009
Posted by Jacquie Kelly in : CRM, Collaborative Tools, Trials, BCE , 1 comment so farNew College Swindon
The title of New College Swindon’s project is: Using CRM and Collaborative Tools with Business and Community Enterprise and the project commenced in December 2008. They have faced a number of challenges since it inception, one of which was the establishment of project team to include members of Business Services. This was made more difficult as the main contact of Business Services left the college and it took some time to employ a replacement. This increased the pressure on other members of that team and resulted in a delay in re-establishing a project representative. The problem was overcome by sharing the responsibility of this project across three members of the team.
Initial contact has now been made with local small businesses and a list of Training Providers have been supplied. There was also an initial investigation into the use of the NING platform carried out by the team.
Further ahead the project hopes to finalise the online conferencing tool and either purchase or download for use as well as evaluating Facebook vs Ning and setup accounts for use with partners. They will also be looking at organising an ‘online’ conference for partners and present the advantages of using social networking in business.
