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 [...]
Imagine being sponsored and not knowing about it…
This has wound me up for a while. P&G’s campaign this year state that they are the proud sponsors of mums. Eh, hem. Excuse me. You don’t sponsor me. And am sure you don’t sponsor millions of other mums, surely you need our permission? What are you giving them if you are? The privilege to buy your [...]
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 [...]
5 wrong and annoying things organisations are so good at
Throughout my years of researching and participating on the social web I’ve increasingly found ways to judge organisations from the way they communicate. And here I present the most popular things that organisations do to annoy me on the social internetz. Claiming Huge Popularity We are the best. We are the first. We are the [...]
The web is a transient place. Live with it.
Stuff comes and goes. And when it comes to the web, things can go quite quickly. The following is a picture of web startups. The ‘x’s are ones that didn’t make it. The green circles are ones that got acquired (doesn’t mean they have been successful). Note that the image is dated 2009, so current [...]
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 [...]
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!
Can everyone blog more please?
Fact: I can’t keep up with Twitter. I miss stuff that is going on. If ya’ all put some of the useful stuff you are saying on Twitter and blog about it, then I’m more likely to read it. Twitter is so temporary, information just gets pushed away so quickly. Blogging brings so much more [...]
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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.
