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

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

Image via Wikipedia Are you being productive, or are you just busy? Take control of your time with these Time Management links (hat tip to SOHO Solo Jim Flynn of MTS Consulting) Great post on Brazen Careerist – are you working too hard? Despite spam, E-mail is still a potent weapon in the small-business marketing arsenal. West 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