As an experiment I’m adding the brief slideshow I used last night as a post here. It was a great event and we’d all love to see everyone again – please bring friends next time too. The evening Jane Binnion gave a great introduction and explained what we hope to achieve with Lancaster Social then […]
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I recently attended a presentation by Lancashire County Council’s Sustainable Travel Team at Lancaster & Morecambe College. While it was primarily aimed at businesses with a number of employees I was curious to see how freelancers could benefit from thinking about travel sustainability. Initially, the team said, people view what they do with resistance as […]
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As freelancers we need to be insured properly. That means car, home and also personal liability/public indemnity insurance. It can be daunting as there are so many options to choose from – should you find your own insurance or use a broker? What coverage do you need? Which company should you use? My advice, find […]
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We all have them. Monsters lurking in the dark corners or our offices, dripping doubt and ridicule whenever things aren’t perfect. Today is the day you will defeat those monsters. Today is the day you’ll banish them to the depths. Today is the day you will laugh in their ugly faces. Today you will win […]
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I’ve set a date folks. Mark it down in your calendar and come along to be part of the first Jelly co-working event to be held for Morecambe and Lancaster. Wednesday 21st May 2014 It’s going to be held upstairs at The Yard coffee shop, 5 King Street, Lancaster but we need your help. The […]
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I am currently helping to test through an initiative from Lancaster University, the Barter Project. The BARTER research project aims to use mobile and ubiquitous computing to raise the understanding of how fiscal localism can produce new complementary economic models to build a more sustainable society. I’ve only been using the card (as a guinea […]
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I’ve teamed up with Kerstin Hammes to present a day of workshop sessions at Lancaster & Morecambe college. We’re going to be talking about online marketing, blogging, demystifying SEO and getting an effective website for your business (and your budget). It’s going to be a great, informative way to give you ways to kickstart your […]
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Sent with love. You can now get your freelancer paws on a free pdf copy of my book Create Bubbles: Adventures in Freelancing by signing up to my newsletter. This has been something I have been talking about for a few years; it encapsulates what I learned in my first few years as a freelancer […]
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