For the record: I still love Twitter, but in 2012 I’m giving G+ more of my time. Follow me @rosiesherry or add me to your Circle on Google+. 1. The search baby! The search on Twitter winds me up to the moon and back. It’s so frustratingly hard to find previous tweets. This is not [...]
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What makes a community?
If you go to seek advice from the ‘experts’ about building a community, they will probably reel off a list of buzzwords and necessities. Oh, you must have a ________. Fill in the blank space with social network / blog / Twitter / ecommerce / marketing plan / advertising / PR / business plan [...]
The 3 Kings – Content, Design, Marketing
There’s a common saying on the web that ‘content is king’. Without good content your website will *suck*. I think this was more true in the *olden days*. You know, as little as 3 years ago – when the social web wasn’t as mainstream as it is now. It is still partially true, but it [...]
39 people are talking about this
An interesting added feature came live for me and The Software Testing Club Facebook page today. It’s a simple added stat that shows the number of *interactions* that have happened on the page. Interactions include things like *likes*, comments, photos posted, etc. The metric is worth keeping an eye on and it gives myself [...]
Perhaps this is why most communities don’t grow
This is my daily routine of moderation with the Software Testing Club. I’m sure this could easily put people off running a community, but it is essential to maintaining the quality of people and content. Note that this is just spam prevention – what needs to be done before we can even start doing other [...]
Robert Scoble on maintaining quality comments
Quality comments is something I am always battling with. Interesting to see how Robert Scoble maintains quality on his G+ network. How he finds the time to do it, I don’t know. This is from a recent post he made: OK, this is something NOT to brag about, but something we must defend every day. [...]
The business of events, for mums…
This whole topic of juggling babies with modern day life has resurfaced itself for me. Obviously it is not a coincidence, it’s all to do with Sherry #3. And with a new baby I think again about how I can get out and involved with events. It’s always a tricky one, that is never [...]
That big wall called a form.
I hate climbing walls. It’s my pet hate. “Hey you. Yes you. We have this free digital thing. It’s worth lots of money, but we are giving it away for free. Just go here to get it now.” They don’t tell you that it involves filling in a form that involves telling them your life [...]
A nice way to access a new feature from Rapportive
I’ve been using Rapportive since it came out. If you are not, you may want to sign yourself up. It is so useful having information on people next to emails in your inbox. It makes it that bit easier to get to know the person you are about to email. I find it especially useful [...]
Surprising people with LinkedIn Recommendations
It’s nice to get a LinkedIn recommendation out of the blue. Every so often I look back on the recent relationships I have built and wonder who I can leave a surprise LinkedIn recommendation for. It is a simple action. Takes 5 minutes. Is hopefully of benefit to them. And puts a smile on their [...]
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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.
