New images for floating office

The floating shedlike H2Offices which we profiled last year continue to develop with new concept details emerging. More information at their site here.

Enterprise Nation - Twitter Mania

This week, Emma Jones from Enterprise Nation looks at the microblogging site Twitter.

You know there’s something happening when you speak at a business event, mention the benefits of Twitter and, by the time you’re home, have 13 new followers. Twitter is catching on. Fast. And it’s a great little tool for business, if you know how best to use it. Not only are people signing up to Twitter in their millions, it’s the application on everyone’s lips. In the past two days, popular blog Zen Habits has posted a feature on ‘how to get things done with Twitter’ and copyblogger.com is advising on ‘how to go viral with Twitter.’

The more this micro-blogging platform is spoken about, the more it will continue to catch on. And why not? When Twitter is free, quick to use, and easy to maintain, it’s only right that so many people are opting to post life and business snapshots in 140 characters or less. Here are some tips on how it can work for you.

Make it easy for people to follow you – display a Twitter feed on your website or blog and include your Twitter identification at the end of presentations and on profiles.

Ease in to it gently – post gradually at first and get comfortable with becoming a micro-blogger. People have told me they don’t feel Twitter is for them. I reply to say that’s how I felt at first. But if you see Twitter for what it is (a useful business tool and social meeting pot) then it soon becomes a useful and enjoyable part of everyday life.

Share your expertise – Twitter is a great outlet for sharing your knowledge. Post links to industry news and snippets and upload your thoughts and ideas. This will enhance your image as an expert and encourage people to buy from you.

Get feedback – asking questions via Twitter will result in almost immediate responses. Journalists post and ask for case studies, pollsters ask for views and on the road homeworkers ask for hotel recommendations.

Join the conversation – make the most of Twitter as a business and social tool. When you work from home it’s good to have a network of chattering contacts that you can step into on a 5 minute break or breather.

I would recommend Twitter to you all. Sign up at twitter.com and find and follow me at emmaljones – I share home business tips...and offer what one shedworker believes to be out-of-touch homeworking playlist recommendations!

Emma Jones is Founder of Enterprise Nationand author of ‘Spare Room Start Up – how to start a business from home’

Shackleton's Hut

It's quite snowy here at the nerve centre of Shedworking (I've just nipped out into the garden to prevent our ceonothus from snapping) but this is very small beer indeed compared to conditions in the antarctic. Artist Michael Bartalos is there at the moment as part of his current project, The Art of Recycling in Antarctica: The Long View and has recently been admiring Shackleton's hut which is in surprisingly good nick. You can read more about his travels and work at his excellent blog The Long View, and more about his visit to the hut here where there are also many more photos of the inside of the hut.Thanks to James Westwater for the alert
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Snowy garden office roundup

Thanks for sending in your photos. Keep 'em coming. Above is Man in a Shed's. Below is Mark Ramuz's from Garden2office.And here is Creative Charlie's.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Shedworking HQ this morning

Please send in your photos of snowbound garden offices and we'll put them up here on the site.
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Shedworkers laugh in the face of snow

While England shuts up shop for a bit because of a light dusting of the white stuff, those of us who work in garden offices can obviously carry on regardless: pictured above is shedworker Phil Sorrell's shed this morning. Of course we can also enjoy the snow too - I plan to go sledging with the boys this morning. It underlines what we already know. That working from home is the ideal flexible working environment.
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Interact with Roald Dahl's writing hut

If you've always fancied a poke around Roald Dahl's iconic writing hut, nip across to the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre where they have an interactive version: you can zoom in and out, rotate and click on key items (bin, chair, writing board, etc) for more information.