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“I think we’re starting to see a fundamental shift in the way small businesses are started and the way that they’ll succeed. I’m hoping future small business owners will ask themselves what part their business will play in wider society – what impact will they have, socially and environmentally? What can they offer and what can they give back to the community in which they’re rooted? I’m convinced that those kinds of questions will assume increasing importance. And I’m wildly …
Finally the podcast from the panel I did at SXSW in March is up. Listening to it I felt really proud (yes, even with the embarrassment of realising I talked about vomit) of all that we said in it. The advice that Emira, Lauren, Jenny and Vickie shared I think is really valuable and I hope the fun we had really came through.
“Successful, creative and self-taught entrepreneurs (from graphic designers, to producers, to crafters) will discuss and offer advice …
One of the highlights for me at this years SXSW was Dan Rather’s Keynote. It spoke a lot about truth in media which is something I think about a lot as both a reader and a writer.
I found it very enlightening to hear the differences in reporting from twenty years ago and now. The biggest difference that I found was how at one point reporters banded together. If a reporter asked a question to say the President and the President …
When I attended a BlogHer panel today I left really, really frustrated Both the panel and the audience, and perhaps rightly so, seemed to be very “grrrrl.” Everyone seemed to reflect each other both in dress and in speech and it everyone seemed to be just so focused on the pain of women, how women writers need to tag everything they do as “women” and how we need to kick some ass (ours! theirs!) and get angry at not being …
In the several years I’ve been working as an artist, I’ve asked for outside help with projects only a handful of times, if that.
Despite having access to a lot of fabulously talented and helpful people, I’ve never really called on any of them. Oh there have been so many times I’ve secretly asked for help but the words never came out of my mouth. It’s not that I was afraid of rejection or people giving negative feedback or help, but …
There have been many occasions when I’ve thought of jotting down a note or two here to either update people on what’s going on or share something I’ve learned but I’ve hesitated. The energy has been gone, the desire has been gone, the want has been gone.
I’ve been confused as to why I have found it very difficult to update here and also on my other sites, which are also high profile and receive a tonne of visitors (a combined …
I realise it’s been over two months since my last real update which might make one wonder if I’m still around.
I am.
But this past year I’ve become a lot more private and to a certain extent, guarded. My want to share has dwindled and it�s only now I’ve fully realised why.
For over two years I’ve felt I’ve been highly open and public and that had begun to wear down on me. The expectations from others that I felt seemed like …
The Chronicles of Girl at Play began in April 2001 as a way for me to chronicle my leaving a successful corporate position to become a self-employed writer.
