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Floating offices

Not a straightforward sharing proposition, but these novel floating offices could enable people to make much greater use of marina space.  And what a great place to have an office.

I’m busily working on my new office for yours2share at the moment and offices with a great view are close to my heart.  Fortunately yours2share’s new [...]

Meet me @ WREF

yours2share is taking a stand at the WREF (Women, Research and Enterprise Forum) Showcase being held at the Forum in Norwich on Wednesday 17th March from 10am til 4pm.

The Showcase is part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, held in collaboration with the National Science and Engineering Week and the John Innes Centenary.

If you’d [...]

Facebook Fans

After much fiddling last night, I managed to get the Facebook fan box into the widget on my blog.  So now you can sign up to be a fan of the yours2share page on Facebook.  Please do!

Just click “Become a fan”.

Facebook has improved greatly recently, it used to drive me mad every time I touched [...]

Growth does not equal happiness

I read with interest this post on the monbiot blog I’ve recently discovered about an interview with Lord Turner in the Guardian.  Lord Turner is the head of the Financial Services Authority and is quoted as saying: “All the evidence shows that beyond the sort of standard of living which Britain has now achieved, extra [...]

Come and meet me

If you live in East Anglia and would like the opportunity to meet me and find out more about yours2share, I shall be at the WIRE Autumn Fair at World Horse Welfare (formerly known as the International League for the Protection of Horses (ILPH)) from 10am to 5pm on Saturday 31st October 2009.

As well [...]

Please vote for me!

This is a shameless plea for a little help!

I’ve been shortlisted for the O2 Grazia awards and the winner will be the one who gets the most votes.

So please vote for me here: http://o2-business.com/business/Vote.aspx You need to click on “East” to see me and then click the button “Vote for this Grazia candidate” for yours2share.

You [...]

Inspired Times

I came across this interesting website earlier this week- Inspired Times.  (Inspired name too.)  It seems to accord with many of yours2share‘s objectives and more besides.  Following one of its threads, I ended up on a website helping people to set up street parties, and here are their top tips for holding a street party

One [...]

Good press

Last Tuesday, I was interviewed by two journalists writing for completely different newspapers: The Beccles and Bungay Journal, our local newspaper and the Washington Post.

First of all I was interviewed by Dan Haynes of the Beccles and Bungay Journal regarding the Barclays Trading Places Awards, for which yours2share is in the last 100.  There [...]

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, [...]

High performance newsletter

I use Constant Contact (and they’re great) to handle all yours2share‘s newsletters and I’ve just found some pleasing information.  They have a section detailing the aggregated response rates for the vast numbers of newsletters they send out and yours2share’s compares really favourably with them on every count.

Overall yours2share is currently averaging a 33% open rate, [...]