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Re: Working from home

Calvin Jones — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:41:13 -0000

Hi Andrew,

Great post -- and thanks for the link to mine.

I've been working from home since 2001, and there really is no going back. I love the freedom it affords, and although there are significant challenges the good outweighs the bad exponentially.

Check out this tongue-in-cheek look at some of the less well publicised benefits of working from home that I wrote over on the SOHO Solo West Cork blog (a network specifically for home based workers in South West Ireland).

Listening to the traffic report on the radio has become one of the favourite parts of my day :-).

Re: How Does Your Blog Relate to Your Business

Calvin Jones — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:34:50 -0000

Hi Chris,

It does and it doesn't, is the short answer.

As a writer my blog serves primarily as a very public outlet for my writing. In so far as it provides a readily accessible and constantly up-to-date sample of my writing to prospective clients, it does relate to my business. But in terms of content it's very open ended. That lack of focus is both a blessing and a curse -- it demonstrates versatility as a writer, but also makes it more difficult to establish relevance and authority in any given area, both for humans and search engines, I guess.

C'est la vie!

I do plan to launch a more business focussed blog to support our photo wedding invitation business (http://www.imageinvitations.com -- site needs LOTS of work), and that will certainly focus on more "on-topic" content.

At the moment though, I'm in the same boat as you: time is in short supple(isn't it always), so the wedding invite blog is on the back burner, along with about a zillion other projects.

All the best.

Calvin!

Re: Pixenate and Twitter in a tree, k..i..s..s

Calvin Jones — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:45:55 -0000

Guess that means Walter has 800+ twitter account usernames and passwords... including mine. Lucky he's such a fine upstanding member of online society.

While Pixenate is of course squeeky clean in this regard, I can't help wondering how long it's going to be before some unscrupulous but "cool" third party web app does steal twitter identities.

Or is there some technical wizardry in the twitter API that keeps our details secure?

Re: SOHO Solo Conference

Calvin Jones — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:16:38 -0000

Thanks for spreading the word Conor... hope to see you and lots of Web2Ireland's readers there. Should be a good day....