SOHO Solo West Cork

Calvin October 3rd, 2008

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 by a SOHO Solo member. (Hat tip to Trevor Kingston of Lasertech Southwest Cork, who suggested this idea in a discussion over on our LinkedIn group).

To kick things off I’m offering two professionally written press releases to the SOHO Solo who contributes the best blog post in October, and Trevor is offering a €50 Lasertech voucher for printer consumables for the best blog comment by a SOHO Solo member.

So… if you’re a SOHO Solo member, sign up and join the conversation. If you’re a home based worker or solo entrepreneur in Cork or Kerry who hasn’t joined SOHO Solo yet – add your profile on the SOHO Solo Ireland site and get involved.

Unfortunately I’m not eligible… which means that David Hollingworth of CTS West Cork is currently in the driving seat as the only other contributor. So come on, how about giving David a run for his money?

I’m looking forward to reading all your posts.

Competition Rules

Pretty simple really:

1. The competition is open to ALL SOHO Solo Ireland members, regardless of which network chapter they belong to

2. Only entries from SOHO Solo members with current active profiles on the SOHO Solo Ireland members directory at the time of judging can be considered for this competition

3. The decision of the judges (Network Coordinators Jackie Gowran and Calvin Jones) is final

Winners of the October competition will be announced at the SOHO Solo West Cork meeting in November, and afterwards on this blog.

If you would like to sponsor this competition by contributing one of the monthly prizes please drop us a line using the contact form.

Our thanks to this month’s sponsors:

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Calvin September 26th, 2008

Catherine Wall of IT@Cork sent an e-mail earlier this week offering SOHO Solo Members free entry to the event “Media and Marketing in the Digital Age” with prominent Irish Blogger, columnist and digital media commentator Damien Mulley:

Where: Webworks, Albert Quay, Cork
When: Thursday October 16 at 11am
Registration: To register please email admin@itcork.ie or call 021 2307011 (don’t forget to mention you’re a SOHO Solo Member).

Should be a great event – here’s an excerpt from Catherine’s e-mail to whet your appetite:

Damien Mulley will go through tips and techniques on how to deal with the media in 2008 and then explain how companies can market themselves online. Can Bebo, Facebook and LinkedIn actually get you business?  Damien will explain how they can.

Damien Mulley organises the Irish Blog Awards which has now been running for 3 years. He teaches business blogging, PR skills and Online Marketing to private businesses, Universities and has given public training classes on business blogging to WIT, Wicklow County Enterprise Board, Galway Skillnet and the Irish Computer Society.  He is a trained technical writer, former technology columnist for the Sunday Tribune and holds a diploma in Law from UCC.

So register now, and I’ll see you there.

If you’re not a SOHO Solo member yet you can still attend the event at a cost of €30 – or why not take this opportunity to join and attend the event for free?

Our thanks to IT@Cork for extending this invitation to SOHO Solo members.

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