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 [...]
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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. [...]
What Guy Learned From Steve Jobs
(A bit of a reminder for myself) From Guy Kawasaki – full original list here. Experts are clueless. Customers cannot tell you what they need. Jump to the next curve. The biggest challenges beget best work. Design counts. You can’t go wrong with big graphics and big fonts. Changing your mind is a sign of [...]
Running a virtual lean machine
As Software Testing Club has grown we’ve opted to work as a mean, lean, virtual machine. How do we do this? Google for email, RSS, document collaboration Yammer for conversations. Highrise for a CRM FreeAgent for accounts Dropbox for documents Mailchimp for email marketing WordPress for making websites Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ for Social [...]
Using big meaningless words
How often do you go to a website or read about an organisation that makes claims like: we are the first… we are the largest… the most popular… the fastest growing… Don’t let these types of words fool you. It doesn’t mean they are any good. And actually in many cases they can mean a [...]
Funding Thunder Lizard Entrepreneurs
I enjoyed watching this video. Worth checking out the other videos from Standford’s ecorner. About the video Stanford Engineering lecturer and FLOODGATE partner Ann Miura-Ko offers insight into the democratization of innovation in the Internet age, and its affect on investment cycles. Additionally, Miura-Ko speaks candidly about the need to test business models, her firm’s [...]
The Testing Planet – Issue 5
The 5th Edition of The Testing Planet is out. Currently available to print, ebook, Kindle paid subscribers. Free version coming out at the end of the month. Go get it before the rest of em!
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