Posts tagged website
Podcast progress
May 13th
I wrote recently in Unexpected Pleasures about how wonderful it is when something good happens that you haven’t had to work or push for. It’s a salutary reminder that life doesn’t have to be a struggle!
I also love it when out of the blue an answer arrives to a question you have been puzzling over and finally let go of out of sheer exasperation of ever finding a solution. It happened today, funnily enough once again via the lovely San Sharma of Enterprise Nation. Last time he put my book about working from home on the EN Amazon wishlist. Today he has enabled us (OK, to be completely honest, my long-suffering IT helpdesk, A) to put two audio clips on the site that have been languishing unheard for months.
You can find them both on the Judy Heminsley page, but in the same spirit of effortlessness, here’s one you can play without any more clicking. It’s a chat with Nick Williams of Inspired Entrepreneur about cleaning, writing a book and the many joys and challenges of working from home. Thanks, San!
Frome Jelly 19 May
May 10th
Just a quick announcement of the next Jelly in Frome. It’s been a while due to all my recent upheavals, but finally I’ve got it together for Wednesday 19 May, from 10 am to 4 pm. We’ll be at The Old Church School again, thanks to our ultra-supportive host Gavin Eddy.
I’m looking forward to seeing old and new faces, and for the latter there’s new information on the site about what to expect when attending Jelly, plus some pointers about what you can hope to achieve. The glass-walled meeting room holds eight people, so don’t delay – booking starts 12 May.
For first-time Jellyers
May 6th
You may have read my posts banging on about how wonderful coworking and Jelly are, and wondered what on earth actually happens there, and what you could take along to do. I know I was a bit puzzled before my first Jelly in Bath, because I work alone in my home office, and I couldn’t imagine how I could possibly work surrounded by other people. People who might want to talk, for goodness sake!
So I’ve added a new page called Attending Jelly to the Work from Home Events section and hope it will help puzzled first-time Jellyers. @JanMinihane, who organises Shropshire Jelly, has shared her experience of Jelly and what she particularly likes about it. As is so often the case, it’s the little things that make all the difference, things like sneezing and tea!
I’d like to thank Jan for providing that, and also for giving me ideas to add to the information on How to Start your Own Jelly. It’s a good example of the collaboration enjoyed by Jellyers, in sharing experiences, getting inspiration from others and coming up with something much better as a result. Oh, and it also gives me an opportunity to show off the Shropshire Jelly logo, which is as colourful and full of character as the actual occasion!
It’s good to talk
Mar 16th
One of the major problems of working from home is that being in the same place all the time makes it very difficult to get any perspective on challenging issues and you can end up tearing your hair out. I speak from experience!
So I’ve been trialling the Work from Home Audit, which is a phone or Skype conversation with me to talk about your sticking points and come up with creative ways to get round or through them. The results have been far better than I ever dreamed and I’m thrilled that Kate and Fiona have made so much progress on their home businesses – and are having fun in the process! You can read what they say about our chats on the new Work from Home Audit page.
Can’t see the home working wood for the trees? Get in touch and we’ll chat. You’ll feel much more positive afterwards!
Just do one thing at a time!
Jan 21st
I’m pleased to say my advice to myself worked and I was able to get stuck into my new webpage on how to start your own Jelly. It’s now published apart from some pictures I’m waiting for A to put on as we have a glitch with the site that means pictures have to go on the server first…or something. Something that I need to stay well away from, anyway!
I’ve written the new page in response to all the questions about Jelly and coworking that have been coming in to me and Lee Cottier, who organises Jelly in Bristol and Bath. It seems that although the idea of coworking has been around in the UK for a few years, it’s now really taking off. Timing is all.
Having completed this, I’m keen now to crack on with my page for freelance writers working from home.
Work from…where?
Jan 5th
We had some disappointing news before Christmas. Our landlords have decided to sell the house we rent and so we will have to find somewhere else by March. It’s a shame because we really like it here, it’s light, roomy and a quick walk into the town centre, which has all the amenities a home worker could want – Post Office, banks, building societies, cafes, library, good mix of shops, markets etc.
It’s a big upheaval to move two businesses as well as all our belongings and inform all the authorities about our change of address, make sure post doesn’t go astray, arrange for new phone lines and internet and so on.
A level of insecurity goes with renting, but we are just not ready yet to commit to buying again. We both want to get our businesses firmly established and know for sure where we want to be. So if you know of a nice house in Frome with 3 bedrooms or enough space for us both to work from home, please get in touch. Oh, and a woodburner would be good…
Newsflash – page about Jelly
Dec 9th
I’ve just added a new page about Jelly that includes a couple of videos from the first Frome Jelly in November. New pages are listed under Tips on the menu bar and also in the right-hand column under my tweets.
Ooh err, I wonder what that does…
Dec 6th
I’m like a child with a new toy – I keep coming back to my new site to admire it and play around some more, and I’ve found some more new features you might like:
If you run the cursor over the top right-hand corner of the site, where it’s completely black/purple, a couple of little squares drop down. One is to change the size of the font so you don’t strain your eyes using a laptop, the other lets you widen the page.
You might have noticed the comments are now at the top of each post. Click on Comments and run your cursor over the person’s name, and if they have a website, a little screenshot of it pops up so you can see if you want to have a closer look. (Sorry, Jenny, I don’t know why yours is blank).
Above the comments is a heading ‘Share this post!’ and if you hover over it, it goes blue and brings up links to Twitter, Facebook and other social media so you can share the info if you think other people would find it useful.
Apologies if you know all this already. I do lots of surfing and a lot of it is new to me, so I just couldn’t resist sharing!
The new look Work from Home Wisdom
Dec 4th
Welcome to the new look Work from Home Wisdom! It’s taken rather longer than I anticipated to get here, but I hope you like the new style and layout as much as I do. Now that my blog is on the home page, there will be something new to read, listen to or watch every time you visit.
Have a click around and explore all the new features. In the right-hand column below my book is a row of little icons that allow you to search blog posts by category, tags, archives, favourites and recent comments.
Under these is a search box where you can type in a word to bring up all the blogs that mention it. Below you can see my latest tweets and click on the links to follow me. Oh, not to forget that there’s another link to my twitter account tucked under the menu bar at the top of the page, next to an RSS button. Clever stuff, eh?
And this is just the start. From next week I will be adding lots of new information to help you work from home as happily and profitably as possible, with articles, audio, video and links tailored to all kinds of home worker.
Whether you are downsizing, making changes after redundancy, writing from home, a mum returning to work, living in the country, interested in making some income in retirement or any other kind of home worker, there will be something of interest for you. Happy browsing and do come back soon!
Website live again
Dec 2nd
We would like to thank our server hosting company Foxhall Solutions and especially Richard Sheppard for getting the website up and working again.
Thanks guys – much appreciated.
Please explore the site to your heart’s content and come back for more content soon!
