I've just been on the TBC and it looks great.

Many of my customers and shoppers are around Ashton, Mossley and around Tameside etc.

The OBN has been fantastic for me. Making friends, learning from other networkers and obtaining business leads.

The TBC looks to build on that.

New friends, more advice and more exposure, happy days.

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HI just wondering when next meeting is being held and where

Thanks Dave

Final week for applications for Oldham Youth Zone Chief Exec...a fantastic chance to create life changing opportunities for the young people of Oldham.

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Well that was a blast! The sun shone at the Sunlight Twestival and Chaddy the Owl, a clown, dancing, football, and cupcakes galore all made for a fab event. Over at Boundary Park, the compere, the fun, the prizes, the Twiz, the Eurovision style link-up, Bob the dog's demos, and of course the money raised made for a great evening. We could not have hoped for more from Oldham's inaugural Twestival! And all these shenanigans were in…

This week was the AGM for the Institute of Professional Willwriters.  It was held at the NEC in Birmingham and about 200 Willwriters from up and the country attended.  As sat amongst the esteemed company of my fellow Willwriters, I wondered if anyone had a collective noun to describe the group. 

There isn't of course, but there should be.  There should be a collective name for every group of business people.

What would you suggest as the collective noun for the group you work…

So, it is now upon us, Twestival Oldham happens tomorrow!!!

2 events, 4-6 at Earl Mill and 6-9 at Boundary Park

Website is here, with more info & tickets http://oldham.twestival.com/

Auction site, if you can't attend but want some fabbie items http://www.urbanhaze.com/twestival/

MASSIVE thanks to all OBNers who have donated prizes,…

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I thought id uplaod some photo's onto a blog so that everyone can see what i do at Lavish Events Oldham...Only few pictures but got several partys coming up so will take more pictures to upload!

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Re the response to Kate Harcus, Groundwork, on Healh and wellbeing/stress management in the workplace

Although not an employer, my previous roles involved managing people and my own experience as an employee.

There is a lot of training around, some in house in larger organisations, but even so, my own experience is that

employers don’t take stress as a serious issue for themselves or their staff, as you say.  Although management know this can be…

For every 10 emails you receive full of marketing blurb, I bet you don't read 9 of them.

So what are the ways for your emails to avoid the Spam and being the 1 in 10?

1. Vary the message and style

If you send out an email saying "March Newsletter" then the following month "April Newsletter", you'll soon lose your audience. How unimaginative.

Even more criminal is buying a generic pdf newsletter and sending it out. Lazy and…

This event went well today and was very well received by those attending.    We provided tips on awareness and managing emotional and practical issues being raised by lack of income, money saving, stress and getting/taking action to support yourself through difficult times.  

The idea of these presentations is to offer tips and encourage you to think about what concerns you or makes life difficult - and then how you can better manage yourself and your…

Now, I’m not one to say ‘I told you so’ but, well, I told you so.

I argued in a recent post, The Twitterverse, that we wre about to see major changes in the social media landscape as the major players searched for viable business models.

Well, with Facebooks acquisition of little Beluga, I think we’re beginning to see the build up to a…