South Tipperary Business Women's Network

NETWORK NEWS 2010

January

The South Tipperary Business Women's Network began the year with an enjoyable day at the premises of one of our members, Nina Kati. Nina business is Working Wonders, which combines interior design with feng shui. She also tutors in feng shui principles and our day consisted of finding out about our Chinese horoscopes, how and why we get along with some people and not others, where to build or buy a house, room layouts and possible health problems. Suffice to say we were all fascinated and wanted to know more, especially about our own families!

February

The February meeting was devoted to learning about social networking and how it can be used as a business tool. Johnny Beirne travelled from Carrick-on-Shannon to Clonmel to give the presentation and we had so many questions for him, he could have stayed all night! We all needed to know more so a full day training course was arranged by the County Enterprise Board in conjunction with our member Margaret O'Keeffe's computer training centre, Compulearn. Now we'll all be "tweeting" happily. Let's face it ladies, there's not too much that's free out there so we should try to take advantage of Facebook, Twitter, Linked-in et al.

March

We hosted a meeting for Eddie McVeigh, Political Director for the European Commission in March and Jonathan Fallon of EP Consulting facilitated a very interesting discussion following the presentation. We provided a buffet for this event and invited guests from the Dungarvan network and people from local businesses, followed by a speed networking session which proved very entertaining and as usual when a group of women get together, it was a difficult job to get them to stop talking and move on to the next person!

Other News & Highlights

The President of our network, Rosemary Donovan of the Book Market (winner of the Retailer of the Year Award 2009), was recently invited to be a judge in the schools' business enterprise competition for secondary school students organised by the County Enterprise Board. Rosemary says it was amazing to see such enthusiasm and expertise in these young people and she was very pleased to have been asked to participate. The winners will go on to the regional finals.