The next Soho Connect West Cork meeting will take place Wednesday, 9th September 2009, at 12:30pm, at the Kingfisher Bar of the Celtic Ross Hotel in Rosscarbery. The meeting format will be informal as usual but the focus will be on the future direction of the group and the potential of our networks. Admission free. Refreshments Full Article

Hi A few of the people who have been involved in SSWC were talking on Twitter yesterday. Mostly @ann_donnelly@paraic @calvin141170 and myself, @deepspin and the consensus seemed to be that we should have another planning meeting in early September with a view to setting up another West Cork Network focusing on rural Cork starting with Full Article

Have you been wondering if you should be on Twitter or how you can use Facebook to promote you business? There are still places left for Friday's workshop "Hands On: Your Own Site PR Campaign". Full Article

Image by Krishna De via Flickr 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 Full Article

This morning in Casey’s Hotel in Baltimore the Skibbereen and Region Economic Network (SAREN) met for the second time to announce four development projects spanning Enterprise, Infrastructure, Marine and Tourism, and Energy and Maufacturing to bolster the future of the region. Although these type of breakfast events usually culminate in people 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

SOHO Solo’s don’t do recession. Or rather, they don’t embrace the collective doom and gloom that’s gripping the nation at the moment. That was the overriding impression following the SOHO Solo conference “Reinventing Oneself in these Challenging Times” in Kinsale last Friday. Photographs and audio files from the Full Article

Image via Wikipedia Friday is fast approaching, and if you want to attend the SOHO Solo conference “Reinventing Oneself in These Challenging Times” to hear what Lord David Puttnam and a host of interesting speakers have to say on the topic of reinvention and innovation, not to mention a selection of not-to-be-missed case studies, Full Article

Last week (14/01/2009) SOHO Solo West Cork held it’s first ever online meeting. We chose the free online meeting service “DimDim” as the platform, and went through a series of tasks including a short presentation, desktop sharing / screen-casting, collaborative white-boarding, all using the public and private text chat and Voice over IP Full Article

Catching up with my feed-reader after three weeks of forced internet abstinence, I stumbled across a great post by Damien Mulley called simply “And?”. It’s an interesting piece that challenges the Irish tendency to focus on excuses when it comes to starting a business. Its true… both here and in Britain we’re not short Full Article