Is SOHO Solo Ireland dying?

Calvin July 14th, 2009

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What’s happening with SOHO Solo?

It’s a question I’ve been asked more and more by members, former members and potential members of the network over recent months, and the truth is I have absolutely no idea.

The last communication I had from SOHO Solo Ireland relating to the future direction of the network was back in March. Since then, nothing, nada, zilch.

At that point the decision was to hold quarterly, rather than monthly facilitated meetings and to encourage informal, member-driven meet-ups on a more regular basis. There was also a proposal to redevelop the SOHO Solo Ireland website to incorporate more social media / networking / community features that would add genuine value for members.

There has been one quarterly session on blogging, but nothing else, and the only development on the SOHO Solo Ireland website seems to be that most of the member profiles have been taken down, including mine… (although I can still log in and edit the details, so the profiles are still in the database).

So essentially I’m asking the same question as every other SOHO Solo out there: what’s happening?

Options for SOHO Solo West Cork

  1. We wait to see what transpires with the current SOHO Solo network, and continue to arrange our own monthly meet-ups as usual.
  2. We use our established relationships to set up our own independent West Cork network for home based entrepreneurs / businesses – informal, run for members, by members.
  3. We establish a West Cork “node” of Open Coffee, applying our own twist.
  4. We call it a day and do our own thing.

At the moment I’m hovering between options 2, 3 and 4.

What do you think?

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5 Responses to “Is SOHO Solo Ireland dying?”

  1. # Daveon 15 Jul 2009 at 11:40 am

    2.

  2. # Calvinon 15 Jul 2009 at 11:52 am

    Thanks Dave… thinking that may well be the best option too. Will probably leave things until after the kids are back in school at this stage — September or perhaps even October before doing anything new.

  3. # Annon 15 Jul 2009 at 2:55 pm

    I’ve been pushing for 2 or 3 for months now, but it seems we don’t have enough people to turn out and make it worthwhile. I think I was naive thinking we could do it without having someone driving it. If there were 2-3 people that could organise and promote it then maybe we could evolve. I don’t have the time to commit to that and know many of us are in the same situation. Cork OCC has 3-4 people that organise and a denser population to pull from.

    Calvin, you had done a really good job getting SohoSolo West Cork going again at the end of last year (thanks for that) and it’s a shame the wind was taken out of its sails. I wouldn’t blame you for jumping ship (to continue with crappy metaphors)!

  4. # Paraicon 15 Jul 2009 at 9:12 pm

    I’m in favour of 3 or 2. I haven’t made a few meetups recently due toholiday and work commitments plus the day change but I get real value out of the interaction and would be happy to help organise things as I have experience in a couple of membership orgs.

  5. # Calvinon 16 Jul 2009 at 11:51 am

    Thanks Ann and Paraic,

    I think I’ll give it a rest until September / October, and then suggest we get together whoever wants to and discuss what we all want to do at that point.

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