It’s About The Smiles – EuroSTAR Video Competition

By on April 22, 2013 in Me, Software Testing

I entered a competetion to win a ticket to EuroSTAR 2013.  It features smiles, a roar, lots of testers with a stealth ninja type song I’d like to go, so please consider voting for me  

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A Story of A (Testing Planet) Bug

By on April 12, 2013 in Me, My StartUp Life, Software Testing

I’m a tester. I run websites aimed at testers. Strangely testers seem to get this weird pleasure reporting bugs to me. I won’t tell you of all the bugs that I know exist, but I can tell you of one. The one that made me laugh at first then wonder how we were going to fix [...]

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Testing Photo Fun, The Results #testbash

By on April 8, 2013 in Me, Software Testing

In my last blog post I promised to take some photos during ‘TestBash’ week in a self potrait and relaxed style. Here are the results:

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Join Me In Some Testing Photo Fun

By on March 12, 2013 in Me, Software Testing

In the testing community, sometimes I feel like we all don’t know what we all look like. Is it important?  Maybe or maybe not, either way I think we could have a bit of fun along the way whilst getting to know each other a bit better. So next week, when I meet and speak [...]

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The Art of Asking – Amanda Palmer

By on March 7, 2013 in Me

Thank you Justin.

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Start With Why

By on February 27, 2013 in Business, Me, My StartUp Life

I enjoyed watching this. In a nutshell – have a purpose!  The video talks about it in the context of business, but am sure this could apply to many aspects of ‘life’.

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A Reminder Of How Sales Are Made

By on February 26, 2013 in Business

As a somewhat unintentional sales person now, sometimes I need to remind myself to ‘let them know’ that something exists. I don’t feel comfortable being perceived as a sales person, whilst I am to a certain extent.  It’s my responsibility to make sure my business achieves the sales it needs to make things happen. As much as [...]

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Community As A Business – Achieving The Win Win

By on February 23, 2013 in Business, My StartUp Life

There was a panel on at #vircomm13 the other week about The Business of Community – Monetisation and Marketing. It spurred me up to write about this as it is something close to my heart and the things I do on a daily basis for my business/community. What gets to me every time is the [...]

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Conference Observations

By on February 21, 2013 in Business, Community, My StartUp Life, Software Testing

During my limited time of running conferences I’ve come across some observations that I thought I would share.  This is from experience of organising TestBash. People Advised Me Against It Before starting TestBash I spoke to several people about the idea.  Many of them told me to be very careful. That conferences are very hard [...]

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I Don’t Do Meetings (And About Being Grateful)

By on February 14, 2013 in Business, Me, My StartUp Life

It dawned on me the other day that I don’t do meetings, yeah like doh, it doesn’t take a genius to figure that out! As a virtual team, instead of meetings we have conversations, (skype) chats, Yammer conversations, emails and telephone calls (normally just for customer enquiries). The more I thought about it the more [...]

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