In March, Stuart and Nick (with help from others) plan to undertake some workshop in and around Sunderland and Newcastle:
"new and different workshops for businesses to attend. The idea is to suggest some of the knowledge and skills that might be useful now and in the future."
They are planning on using a viral campaign of short movies, probably more like vodcasts of a sort, to promote the workshops and stimulate response.
The workshops will be in the areas of:
Creativity and Innovation
Environmental futures
Futures Thinking
Networks and Networking
Personally I wish I lived close by so I could take sometime to enjoy the input. In fact I'd quite like to deliver some of the content :)
Its support like this that can really make the difference for small businesses, helping them to work on areas that normally they would never usually consider and rarely look at it detail, as they are too busy running the day to day business to worry about the future. Having worked with and for Stuart, I can highly recommend watching him present and if his enthusiasm doesn't convince you nothing will.
(note: I set up and am administering the whatifproject blog for Stuart and Nick)