I’ve been busy over the past year or so learning more about how to do business and take action on ideas that I have. This has mostly been through The Software Testing Club, but hopefully, overtime it will be for other things too. Following are some tools and books I’ve looked into and use to [...]
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Mum bloggers
I find the whole movement of mum/mom/mother bloggers intriguing. RWW says that The Best Mother’s Day Gift Is A Six-Figure Blogging Income – and I suspect this is true to some extent. But it would be true for Father’s day too. I guess many people love the idea of making money from blogging. The reality [...]
How did my workliday go?
It’s Sunday night (or Monday very early, jetlag!) and I’ve been back from my Workliday a couple of days now. How did it go? Mostly good as I didn’t do too much work at all. Was travelling with the (3) kids exhausting? Yes. I’m now trying to figure out how to get that relaxing holiday [...]
I made it through the TestBash
Those around me know how much I wanted the TestBash to go smoothly. And it happened, and I’m so chuffed to bits. Awesome is a good word to use. A good size gathering, about 65 of us. Not too big, not too small. I met people! Like Phil Kirkham who has been helping out with [...]
My First Workliday Abroad
My work and home life very much overlaps. I do what I need to do to get things done. Sometimes this means working late. Sometimes it means having a lie in. Sometimes stress is included too – “like argghh, I’m supposed to be looking after the kids, but all this stuff is happening around me!” [...]
I’m Writing a Book
I recently started a private blog, writing about things involved with running Software Testing Club and working towards my personal aims of running a flexible and sustainable business. The highs, the lows, nitty gritty details that I normally wouldn’t write about online. Perhaps an odd bit of Rosie humour in there too! It’s not something [...]
Customer Service That Matches The Brand
For Software Testing Club stuff I use MailChimp. And the Chimp is so lovely, almost makes my heart melt. I wish I had one of my own! But seriously, in a non-serious kind of way it’s like I have been building up this relationship with a non existing chimp. Everytime I login into MailChimp (sometimes [...]
My online plans for 2012
Nope, this is not a new years resolution. Just my ideas at this stage which are likely to adapt and evolve. Blog more on Rosie Land I’ve been a bit slack here for the past couple of years. Part of it has been personal reasons. Other parts has been the ‘confusion in my head’ of [...]
On Communication: Drop Box Stalking
We use DropBox for producing The Testing Planet. Being a virtual team it is very handy! One thing about working virtually is that it can be quite hard to know if someone has started on something or what stage they are on a certain project. With The Testing Planet it is a case of managing, [...]
Things don’t just happen
The Software Testing Club didn’t just grow on it’s own. The Software Testing Club Meetups don’t just happen. The Testing Planet isn’t a 5 minute job. The Brighton Girl Geek Dinners I once organised, didn’t just happen on their own. People don’t flock to coworking spaces just because they exist. Events don’t just happen. [...]
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About
I'm Rosie Sherry. I currently spend my time working on building up community and products for the software testing industry. This includes running the Software Testing Club, a community of 11,000 registered software testers. Producing The Testing Planet, bring awesome-ness content to software testers. And The Ministry of Testing - events and learning opportunities.
I love the web and all the opportunities it brings.
Keywords that describe me: (lean) startups, communities, social web, business strategy, collaboration, coworking and software testing.
I'm married with 3 young kids. One of my biggest drivers is to achieve a work life balance for my family. This isn't easy.
