It’s time for another Anti-Sell Story! (You can see previous Stories here on the blog and/or in the book!) This time we have Alexis Charkiw (or “Lex” for short). Lex and I live locally (South Wales) and both know each other through Welsh ICE, the coworking space and startup hub based just outside Cardiff. I’ve…
Our latest guest post comes from Jon McGreevy. I’ve known Jon since his pre-freelance career, so we’ve known each other for a while. He recently celebrated his first-year freelancing anniversary (freelanciversary?! nah, never mind) – and it’s so, so good seeing him do so well since he’s gone solo. In my book Anti-Sell, I talk…
Around this time last year, I published an analysis of the speaker gender divide of all the South Wales tech/digital meetups I could find in 2017. Now that we’re well and truly in 2019, I was able to do the same for all of 2018’s events.* The short version… The good news: the divide has…
Lack of women speakers at events is an important topic at the moment – not just in Cardiff/South Wales but worldwide. Recently I had the idea to look at the speaker gender divide of all the tech/digital meetups in South Wales that I could find which took place in 2017. Thankfully, with many of them…
This is the first of a series of Q&A interviews we’ll be holding with meetup organisers based in South Wales. Want to be interviewed? Let us know! First up we have Steph Locke (@SteffLocke) of Locke Data, who runs multiple meetups in Cardiff. Hi Steph! First of all, please introduce yourself and your business. Hi!…