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

As you are bound to be a computer user if you are reading this I thought I would draw your attention to a great piece of open source software. As is often the case it is better in many respects than the commercial offerings (certainly if you consider the price!). In addition it can open peoples Full Article

Welcome to 2009! We all know that this is going to be a challenging year in lots of ways, especially for small and micro-enterprises like the typical SOHO Solo outfit (actually, I don’t think there is such a thing as a “typical” SOHO Solo but that’s a topic for another post ), but 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

At the SOHO Solo West Cork meeting today Jim Flynn of MTS Consulting gave a very interesting talk on Time Management for Small Business Owners. Here are the slides from Jim’s presentation: Time Management for SOHO Solos View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: soho techniques) Jim covered a fair bit of ground in his Full Article

Last week’s SOHO Solo meeting was an open discussion on how Social Media Can Help Your Small Business hosted by yours truly. Despite some very rusty presentation and facilitation skills on my part (an occupational hazard of spending long hours tapping away at the keyboard), we covered some interesting stuff – and it was great Full Article

Oops! Forgot to post this on Friday: Advice on Working from Home in the New York Times. Great interview with Andy Lark, VP of Global Marketing at Dell computers, where he explains how Social Media is the most important element in marketing today (okay, so Dell is hardly a SOHO enterprise, but the way Social Media Full Article

Image via Wikipedia Using the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) field when sending e-mail to multiple recipients is common courtesy and protects people’s e-mail privacy. Not using it is not only bad e-mail etiquette, depending on your jurisdiction, it could even be against  the law. Here’s a quick overview on how to use this useful, but often Full Article

When you’re wearing the many “hats” associated with running a small business its easy for your attention to become fragmented. You can find yourself jumping from one task to the next, always busy but not making any real progress. That’s one of the reasons why its important to set realistic, measurable goals. After all, if you Full Article

Here’s the first in a weekly series of posts pointing out some useful stuff we’ve come across for small businesses and SOHO workers this week. If you spot something you think would be valuable to small business owners or home-office workers on your cyber travels, why not send us the link for next week’s post. Six common Full Article