Making progress

The new KO2 site is up and running now thanks to the fabulous Li Bromfield of Freak or Geek.

Next stop is the fabulous UnLtd who want to help "unleash my energy .. to transform the world". I hope they do cos 2 years of bureaucracy and waiting around to proceed is doing my head in!

I am forever grateful though for the help I'm given along the way, esp. Ange at Business Link, who despite being shafted by Cameron's cuts in spending, has now been able to throw me a rope with mentoring funding allowing me to sit down with an expert to guide me through the minefields of employment law, risk assessment and working with kids!!

Its just not enough in this mad world to simply be a mother who loves motorbikes??

So .. big week ahead, think I'll make it a little more relaxed by going to meetings on the GSX-R. Chances are i'll get there on time and no need for a suit.

Testing the awesomeness of Posterous

The internet is a myriad of ...I'll say goodbye to the Twitterers now unless you click the short code?

.... a myriad of branches and links going off to all kinds of places. Its hard to get your head around all the autoposting capabilities of publishing apps and its very easy to lose yourself in occurrences such as FriendFeed's double posting possibilities but I'm now trying Posterous "the dead simple place to post everything".
I'm writing this post to try and get my head around how complicated this is going to be. This post is "apparently" going to appear instantaneously all over my rather large and complicated net presence, namely; Twitter, FaceBook, my FB charity page (not the group though???), LinkedIn, Friendfeed (which could then cause infinite duplications), Plurk, Flickr, YouTube, Delicious and both the old AVIF blog and the KO2 blog .. (breeeeeathe) .. but not the main AVIF website. I won't bother putting links to all these "profiles" / places because this article is actually going to be published on each one of them, apparently?
So that means that personal stuff I want to share will go all over the place but AVIF's website articles will still have to be added separately, same with postings for the FB group (annoyingly) which still has more use, in my opinion, than a FaceBook page. Posterous also doesn't allow you to utilise FB's powerful tagging facility whereby sticking an @ sign infront of a name automatically tags the person, group, page, application, service etc. But if I stick hashtags everywhere perhaps I can throw it around #Twitter a bit more e.g. #posterous #facebook #bla bla bla
Let me get this straight? If I want to throw something out wide across the net I use Posterous, right? But then the Twitterers aren't even reading this part unless they click the short link several hundred characters back in this post. Surely the thing that keeps social media buzzing is social i.e. personal i.e. REAL stuff .. which you can't get in 140 characters .. how many Twitterers have actually clicked the short code and are actually reading this?
Do I simply use Posterous from now on? ..which is crazy as the whole point of Posterous is that I'm sending you this by simply writing an email in Gmail??
If I attach a little image too they'll somehow pass that onto you, although via email i've no idea where it'll go (at the end maybe)?
So .. let the learning curve continue ...

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I'm so pants

I've not updated this blog in so so long but now I will as I've finally ditched my addiction to flash-based Moonfruit.com and therefore the KO2 website too. A wonderful designer in London, Li, of FreakorGeek, is, as we speak, rustling up a new look site for us but since we're still stalled in process and council ... Yawwwwwn.

I won't bore you with details but we're S-T-I-L-L waiting for a go-ahead from NYCC as to  whether or not we can join forces with their new 40-place BESD School on the Forest Moor site. when things start moving we can too.

Although the waiting around is of course frustrating, while this takes place, Zero Motorcycles are stepping up their presence with the help of the TT Zero event (Year 1) of electric superbike racing on the Isle of Mann. Since KO2 wants to use electric dirtbikes this is all good and will help bring the prices down of the units.

So .. I wait patiently but in the meantime am hoping to go get some valuable experience with Simon "Dakar" Pavey and Charley Boorman over in Wales at his off road skills school.