community workshop: IRL thoughts of today

On June 25th, 2008 Henriette Weber wrote:

Today is a big day for our network startup IRL - offline stuff for online people.

It's a network we made so Laura and I could act out our social entrepreneurship within a framework - and open up the danish web scene for more people.

But TODAY we are having our first workshop - starring the one and only Pedro Custodio who was in Copenhagen anyway for the reboot conference.

The workshop is about Community building and it is a more advanced form of workshop...

I have huge secret ambitions with IRL and I think it has a lot of potential to actually create a network of professional web enthusiasts.... It has been a good start even though we possibly hitted it off to ambitiously. So the workshop today is free =) and we're about 15 people who will be playing with communities togethere with Pedro..., there's still room for 2 -3 persons more if you're interested...

I think it's gonna rock=)

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is the world ready for tiny network based business ?

On June 18th, 2008 Henriette Weber wrote:

yesterday I received a mail from a friend of mine who thought I should sign up for DI's Women On Board programme. I am a boardmember of Morgendagens Heltinder and an advisor of Netflirt.dk (and also a boardmember at my daughters kindergarden) but I would love to work with more projects in that direction.

So I got the application form for DI and started to fill it out. And became depressed. And more depressed. Because this application form wasn't embracing an entrepreneur like me, OR the network based business I am running.

I don't ever think that Toothless Tiger will have employees as a "real proper company" - I don't believe I will measure things in "growth rates or revenue". I believe in working with great people and companies but as small freelance entities... as I consider myself. A Toothless Tiger who is working on getting her own office somewhere and working on changing the world.

So I would claim that there's a lot of network based business going on.. But is it gonna make have another boardmember position if I haven't really achieved anything as a "real company". I only achieve things - and tend to keep on achieving things, as a freelancer and as a tiny company

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