Chairman's Blog
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Chairmans blog week 2!
28-06-10, 14:42
I then travelled in to London for the World FM day event at Steelcase, it was really interesting to hear the various presentations and receive questions live from people watching on line around the world, I believe during the day that 13,700 people logged on to take part. I think that World FM day has been a fantastic initiative and whether your world is truly global or maybe more local the chance to profile our industry should not be missed. Friday saw me working at our factory for the day, over the weekend I plan to spend some time at the farm and hopefully watch England in action, there have been times this past fortnight I didn't think i'd be saying that. My BIFM duties for the next week are lighter which will enable me to have a full week concentrating on Hallmark which is important, however even on the quieter weeks there is plenty of BIFM correspondence, prospective appointments and preparation to do.
Well I look forward to my next blog, in the meantime you can catch snippets of my week via my twitter account at www.twitter.com/ibroadbent_bifm
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| 30-06-10, 10:28 | England | #1 |
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| Philip Terzza | at least now they are out, it frees two extra weeks up Ian!! Keep up the good work. Rgds Phil "does it really get above 50oC" Terzza |
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| 02-07-10, 12:00 | A few hundred - not thousands on World FM Day | #2 |
| David Emanuel | Iain, glad to see you settling in as the new Chairman and i personally wish you all the success in your tenure in promoting FM.
I would like to comment, as I have been having a discussion on linked in with Cathy - that World FM Day was not quite the big event that its being spun up to be... sorry.
World FM Day page on twitter had just 22 followers on Twitter. Only 68 tweeters on June 24th from the transcript page tweeting about WorldFMDay - that's all!
Yes, there are followers of followers on Twitter - but were they really following and participating - just two tweets that came in at the Steelcase event as questions would suggest not.
It may have had a reach to few thousand people round the world that were aware of it, its impact or reach was probably a few hundred only. My concern is that I don't believe that Global FM achieves very much for the money that it costs or really makes a difference to very many people - how do we measure its significance its ROI its value to us at the BIFM - can we? We should, the BIFM has committed to over £100,000 to it over the years. Good value for money - I think not. We need to re-evaluate this spend.
World FM Day - Its a lovely idea - and for those that participated, I commend them for getting into the spirit of it, but lets not over egg it... those that participated round the world add up to hundreds, not thousands of people.
The challenge - is to change that, and we really need to. |
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