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Exploding computers

It’s not been a good week.  It started so well here in yours2share mansions, with the mention in the Sunday Times and a great new case study (not quite ready yet, but I’ll probably be posting it next week).

However on Tuesday afternoon, in the middle of a Skype call to a poor unsuspecting yours2share member, [...]

yours2share on YouTube

I’ve finally managed to get yours2share’s video onto YouTube!

If you want to see it in “high definition”, well much better quality, click here.

Family house sharing

A few weeks ago I met Gemma Thompson, a life coach and owner of a local Suffolk magazine Roundabout at a WiRE business networking meeting in Suffolk.  I explained what yours2share is all about, as one does, and she surprised me by saying that she had bought a house with her parents and sister’s family, [...]

Remarkable Enterprising Women

Sophie Garrett – founder yours2share

Many thanks to Enterprising Women, who have just made me Woman of the Week.  Enterprising Women is a great resource for female business owners in the East of England and it is now spreading out across the country.  As well as a comprehensive directory, the events section is useful.  I’m [...]

WiREd!

As I’ve explained on various previous posts, I’ve been taking every opportunity to attend networking events in Norfolk for the last six months.  This is bearing fruit as I’ve noticed that many more new yours2share members come from Norfok than would be otherwise expected.

One networking group, WiRE (Women in Rural Enterprise), has been [...]

Improving yours2share’s website: Romanian style

Earlier this week, yours2share’s website underwent a fairly major set of improvements.  I’ve been working on these for about five months and I can’t tell you how relieved I am that they have been implemented with relatively few issues arising.  (I can’t believe I’ve just written that, I left a full time job in IT [...]

yours2share “freecycles” to Norfolk

I’m kind of glad this week is over. We’ve moved house, yours2share and two dogs from West London to Norfolk. My desk is now a packing case free zone, but my access to the internet is a BTopenzone hotspot outside a training centre in a nearby village because we have no broadband [...]

Networking with social entrepreneurs

A few months ago I decided that I had to make a concerted effort to get out and meet people in order to spread the yours2share word. I’ve taken up every networking opportunity I can. The very first was a networking event held by Enterprise Nation in London in early December – it [...]

New blog (with all the old posts)

Welcome to the new yours2share blog, which has all the old postings from the old blog but is now a fully fledged self hosted Wordpress.org blog rather than a Wordpress.com blog which is rather like a second class citizen.

I’ve begun to promote the blog on Feedburner, Technorati etc and realised that there are so many [...]

yours2share at the One Life exhibition

Today I’ve had one of those days when I start off thinking I’m doing one thing, and end up doing something completely unexpected.

I was called last night by the organisers of One Life exhibition at Olympia in three weeks time. They were selling the last few stands and as one would expect, there was a [...]