A couple of years ago I started the Software Testing Club. It is a lovely community at the moment. It has truly blossomed into something special and unique. A real community of practice for software testers, me thinks. The dilemma I faced after a couple years of running it and 3,500 members later was – [...]
Room for improvement
The more I look at the web in relation to building online services, the more I see most of it just doesn’t work (well). I’m referring more to scenarios like people job hunting, finding clients and finding talent. There are many other scenarios this could refer to – but basically it’s about finding the people [...]
Tip – don’t write about freelance work unless…
A while back, about 18 months or so ago I wrote a blog post on Freelance Software Testing. I shouldn’t have because now every week I get a handful of impersonal and full of spelling mistake requests from so called testers asking me to hand work to them on a plate. It is very annoying. [...]
A note to myself: words not to use
I do a fair bit of writing on the web. I’ve now got three blogs (software testing, girl geek and the one you are now reading). I’ve also got my software testing business website. Each blog has a different focus, which is important. Most of my software testing readers, for example, would not be interested [...]
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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.
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