Submitted by James Purser on Mon, 30/03/2009 - 22:07
I'm going to be running a workshop for Not For Profits in the Illawarra. We're going to be covering the cool tech and services available to NFPs in the web2.0 space, including social networking, extranets, and all those cool things which don't cost the earth.
Details can be found here so if you know someone involved with a NFP in the Illawarra who might be interested, point them our way.
Submitted by James Purser on Mon, 23/02/2009 - 05:22
I've put this post in a couple of different categories, because what I'm going to talk about affects so many people.
Submitted by James Purser on Fri, 20/02/2009 - 03:15
Well I'm still looking at different CRM's, however I have decided that it isn't going to be CiviCRM. While CiviCRM looks good for the online community management sector, it certainly doesn't meet my needs as a specialist small business operator.
So that leaves vTiger as the lead at the moment.
On a side note, one of the biggest challanges I've noticed in this search for the best CRM is the fact that I really am not up to speed with the marketing speak that seems to be an essential part of this software. So all in all, the process is providing a bit of an education.
Submitted by James Purser on Fri, 13/02/2009 - 04:31
As part of the whole growing the business thing, I've been looking at ways to improve my business work as opposed to my development work.
For the last few years I've been putting the developing of code ahead of the day to day running of the business and this hasn't been helpful at all. If I want this business to grow (and I do) I'm going to have to seperate the business side fo things from the geek side of things.
So with that in mind, this is what I'm going to do:
Submitted by James Purser on Fri, 30/01/2009 - 21:15
Well I've been up for a little while so I thought that while the kids were occupied I would jot down a few notes.
Firstly, let's tackle politics for a moment (I know, shocked aren't we). Can someone please figure out a way to force the NSW government to go to an election early? There were two running themes this week that really drove home how completely broken the whole situation is.
Submitted by James Purser on Wed, 28/01/2009 - 22:29
Well I have to say, I'm happy with the response we've recieved to the Open Source Startup Group. We now have 20 members and there has been some discussion on the list.
A thanks goes out to Michael Chesterton and Jacinta Richardson* for contributing to the information pages that we're putting together and a welcome to everyone who's joined.
Submitted by James Purser on Mon, 26/01/2009 - 22:54
One of the activities I took part in during the excellence that was LCA 09 was the Startup BoF - both of them in fact. The first one was less than successful and yet and enjoyable time was had, so we decided to have another go at it. At the second attempt we managed to actually talk about running an Open Source Startup :)
One of the upshots of that was the suggestion that a mailing list be setup to try and keep the communication up. After some thought I decided that it would probably be best to setup a google group and we could take it from there.
Submitted by James Purser on Wed, 17/12/2008 - 03:39
"If you live in the Kensington area of the Randwick Local Government area, you should be recieving a pamphlete informing you of the launch of a new site - kensotraffic.com.au, specifically put together to both get information out to the public about the ongoing issues of traffic and transport in the Kensington area, and to get feedback from the residents."
Originally posted here: http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/kensotraffic.com.au
Yup, we've put out another one :)
Submitted by James Purser on Wed, 26/11/2008 - 03:13
Well my history with webinars is now 1:1 bad vs good. The last one I did was to introduce a few Local Government people to a new service that I am running. It went quite well, so I'm going to tempt fate once again and I'm going to be running another webinar about Open Source and Local Governments next Monday at 11:00am AEDST.
