the IT girl

Heron Practice at Lyddon

Glorious sunshine (at last) on Saturday when Ed went to test drive the Heron at Lyddon. He had just re-built the engine and needed to check performance as we have a last minute invitatione to  Goodwood Revival next weekend.
The Goodwood Revival is amazing - for we ladies it's a chance to get out the dressing up box and re-enact the late 50's and early 60's for a long weekend and for the men - well boy's toys is all I can say.

Our First Blogging Workshop

Karin Hermans and I had a great set of 'new' bloggers at our workshop on Friday. They each had very different reasons for wanting to start blogging and were not too sure at the start of the day. By the end of our sometimes fun, sometime serious day we had six converts. Check it out at The Blogging Studio. Your comments would be appreciated. We had support from Karin's blogging friend Kent Blumberg. Itook his tip and read Blog Wild! by Andy Wibbels. Thanks for the Advice, Kent. This should be a must for every new blogger.
I'm really looking forward to our next workshop on Tuesday 18th September - beginning to feel like a disciple!
Training Advanced Excel tomorrow which is always fun. Delegates get so excited when they start to realise what Excel is capable of doing!

Blogging Workshop

In addition to our software training courses, we are going to start running blogging workshops as there seems to be a great need for this. The 'we' in this case is myself and my friend and fellow BNI'er, Karin, who is an old hand at blogging. She has five blogs through which she has made friends worldwide and also gained many new customers for her Wooden Flooring company as well as fans for her book The Kiss Business.

Our first workshop is being run this Friday 24th August. I am beavering away at preparing a manual for our delegates whilst Karin has set up our blogging workshop site, invited all the delegates to sign up as contributors to our TypePad blog and is preparing her input for the day. We are thrilled to have received help from Kent Blumberg in the form of two PowerPoint presentations that he use for his blogging training. Many thanks, Kent, for your generosity. (Kent is one of Karin's many blogging friends).

Our first workshop is full and we have only a couple of spaces left on the second (18th September). Exciting times! Guess I'd better get back to writing that manual