SohoSolo member Ann Donnelly is offering a series of "Hands On" Online Marketing Workshops, starting with "Hands On: Your Own Blog" on 3rd July 2009. Full Article

If you want to improve your blogging then sign up for the ProBlogger’s “31 Days To Build A better Blog“. I took part in this when it ran in 2007 and it was a great help in setting me up with my own blog. As Darren only runs these every 2 years it’s a must Full Article

The first West Cork Tweet Up takes place Friday 27th March, 8pm, at the Courtyard Bar in Clonakilty. All are welcome - users of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, blogging, etc. Even if you are just thinking about using any of these social networking tools. Full Article

Image by photopia / HiMY SYeD via Flickr These days there’s a flood of information available to us; so much so that it’s often difficult to keep up with it all even before you get onto the Internet! The Internet has such a wealth of data available that trying to get round all our favourite sites Full Article

Image by pallotron via Flickr SOHO Solo West Cork’s blog awards nomination has been getting some great coverage in local and national media. It appeared in last Thursday’s Irish Examiner the most recent edition of the Cork Independent, and I think The Evening Echo — although the latter is as yet unconfirmed. Proof positive Full Article

  The SOHO Solo West Cork blog, which was only established in September, has been nominated for an Irish Blog Award in the Group Blog category. It’s great news! The process now goes something like this: Every one of these blogs will now be sent forward for judging. After this, a longlist will be released, followed by a Full Article

The Irish Blog Awards take place in Cork on 21st February 2009. Nominations are now open, so if you’ve read a blog you’ve admired over the last year, why not head on over and nominate your favourite Irish blogs in their respective categories. Don’t put it off though… nominations close at 6pm on the 14th January. If Full Article

ScribeFire Blog Editor 2,680 weekly downloads 2,001,077 total down loads ScribeFire is probably my favorite blog post editor. I am not alone judging by the figures above from the Firefox download page this week. It functions as my everyday workplace, I open it up to do some note taking when I’m online. I do have a few issues. Full Article

An overview of on line Social Media Our first social network is the people we grow up with, if we are lucky, our family. As we move through our life we meet develop new relationships. They may include people we are in education with and people we work with. We may meet people who have shared Full Article

Part of the reason the SOHO Solo West Cork blog exists is to encourage and promote social media engagement by Small Office Home Office (SOHO) workers and Solo entrepreneurs in the region. To that end we’ve decided to launch a brand new competition for the best blog post and best blog comment of the month Full Article