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New yours2share website

After many months hard work, we’ve now launched the new yours2share website.  Please have a look!

Many thanks to Ruth Cheesley of Virya Technologies for her help with this Joomla based system.

The new yours2share has a forum and directory dedicated to everything related to private syndicates and all things sharing.  Over the next few weeks I [...]

Facebook - sharing websites

I’m developing a list of all the websites related to sharing I know about on yours2share’s Facebook page.   As you’ll see sharing and collaboration take many forms including:

private syndicates
peer to peer rental
rental
swapping
getting rid of stuff that is no longer wanted
peer to peer lending

This is a work in progress. If you know of a [...]

The Mesh by Lisa Gansky

The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing is an interesting book, Lisa Gansky obviously knows a great deal about the many threads that are coming together to create what she calls the Mesh.  If you are looking for ideas about where business is going in the future, this is well worth reading.  There [...]

Newsletter archive

I’ve been writing a newsletter for yours2share for nearly four years now.  Except for the first few months all of them have been managed through the excellent ConstantContact.  I only recently realised that I could have an archive of newsletters.  So here is the yours2share newsletter archive.

Click here if you’d like to subscribe: you can [...]

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 [...]