Business blogging from IBW 1

Over on www.irishbusinesswomen.com, the virtual network of and for Irish business women, they have started a thread where members of that particular network, which recently celebrated the arrival of it’s 3,000 member, can post details of their blogs.

Although most of the blogs involved are business related (more or less) it is amazing to see the great variety of themes and topics addressed, reflecting, I suppose, both the great diversity of businesses that are out there, and also the diversity of the IBW community itself. Over the coming weeks I intend to mention some of them here.

Darina Loakman, aka busywahm on IBW, blogs generally about working from home and stuff like that! Although she might be too modest to say so herself she is THE Irish expert on working from home, so much so that much of what she does is also taken up by key players in the field, particularly in the UK and the US.

If you want a blog about the nitty-gritty, and sometimes not so nitty-gritty, issues relating to being self-employed and running a small business, ie tax, vat, cashflow, profit & loss, filing returns, managing accounts etc. then that of Aileen Hannan, aka AileenH on IBW, the person behind the sortmybooks softwate package, is the one for you. A nice feature of this blog is that from time to time it includes tools that can help manage some key financial management task.

Organic food, organic and environmentally friendly issues, recipes and product reviews are the subjects most usually covered in the blog of Amanda Webb, aka Hamperlady on IBW. Amanda’s aim for the blog is to help promote an organic and eco friendly lifestyle, and I don’t know anyone who does it better. We have never had our own blog awards on IBW, but, if we ever do, I expect that, with a name like organicyum-yum Amanda would win the best-name category by a country mile. She would probably win the best business name category too – what sounds better than feelgood hampers?

One Response to “Business blogging from IBW 1”

1. Alison says:

   June 23, 2009 at 12:17 pm

   a great mix of topics and expertise. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, IBW is a great resource. Think we all wish we had more time to read other member’s blogs etc…