WebEx: Ideas in Motion

Nominate Your Favorites for a LinkedIn European Business Awards

We know business folks work hard. We want to make sure they get rewarded.

That's why we are partnering with LinkedIn on the LinkedIn European Business Awards.The awards will recognize exceptional business success both on a personal and company wide level, specifically rewarding innovation and collaboration in business. The European Business Awards are open to all members of LinkedIn across Europe, with individuals and companies of any size eligible to enter. Entrants can either nominate themselves or others for the awards online. 

The awards will be judged by LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, PY Gerbeau, the famous French entrepreneur and business consultant, and James Campanini, the head of Cisco WebEx for EMEA and Latin America. 

The winner of each category will be awarded a live WebEx session with one of the judges, with the final overall winner receiving an expenses-paid trip to travel to London for their personal meeting with PY Gerbeau.

To win, professionals and businesses will have to demonstrate how they have found exceptional business success as a result of collaboration and sharing ideas and provide tangible proof of achievement.

Click in and add your recommendations! Winners will be announced in March 2010.

  

Idea: Share a meal, make a connection, improve your health

Looking over many of the ideas on PasstheBall.com, it's interesting to me how many of them are about connecting people together - focusing on our humanity. One idea caught my eye: Meet-Eat.

Meet [and] Eat is located in the UK - out of bounds for those of us in sunny California - but available to all our friends "across the pond".

The idea makes sense - you don't have to be alone, you don't need to be isolated. Many of us enjoy the company of our neighbors and yet we sometimes have no easy way to meet each other. That's where Meet-Eat.com comes in:

"Meeting local people will help you network and may help you start-up new business with the help from friends living near you. We hope you will contribute by creating jobs in your local community.

The rule of this club is to encourage members to bring their own food (preferably home cooked), take away food, sandwiches, pizza or soft drink, bottle of wine and share it with others. This will give you an opportunity to taste different food and learn more about them and the people who prepare them. Your evening will be interesting as you may get variety of food, gives you an opportunity to understand other cultures and help to integrate race, religion and nationality. You will find these meetings comfortable to talk about food, health issues which are not controversial, non-political, religious and political."

Check out their idea on our website - share your thoughts and join them if you are interested in making this idea happen. And if you have your own idea - share it - it doesn't have to change the world, it just has to get people thinking. In the UK - share your ideas here; in France, here and Germany, here.