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

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

This press release was issued to local media organisations earlier this week in the wake of the SOHO Solo conference last Friday (CJ). Lord David Puttnam, the renowned film producer and entrepreneur, has called on the Irish Government to take urgent action to remedy woeful broadband connectivity in rural areas across the country. He pointed to 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

“Reinventing oneself in challenging times…” Image via Wikipedia When: Friday 20th February from 10am – 2pm Where: Kinsale Yacht Club, Kinsale, Co.Cork, Ireland Keynote address from David Puttnam, Lord Puttnam of Queensgate-renowned film producer of The Mission, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express etc Who should attend? Entrepreneurs, 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

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

Just posted to the main SOHO Solo blog about a series of FREE succession planning seminars being hosted by the SFA at different locations around the country. Unfortunately the cork seminar was today, so we’re a bit late for that, but if succession planning is something that’s on your mind… or is likely to be any Full Article

Image via Wikipedia The inspiration for this post was a tweet (a post on Twitter) by Cork blogger, columnist and digital media commentator Damien Mulley back in August which extolled the virtues of pants being optional when working from home (that’s trousers, for you American readers out there, not underwear… at least I hope that’s what 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