Building a community that's
working with micro-enterprises
As part of its programme of
work to promote the use of micro-enterprises, the NDT has launched
the Micro-Enterprise Development Network (MEDN).
The first and main part of
this network is an email discussion forum, which will be supported
by Web pages that offer useful resources for people developing micro-enterprises.
The discussion group
The forum has been set up by the National Development
Team so that people can share their experiences in developing micro-enterprises,
their problems and successes, and useful resources that they have
found. While we hope that the main focus will be practical and personal,
broader discussions about general principles and policy issues are
entirely acceptable, provided they are clearly relevant. As the
forum is only now getting started, we don't know what sort of group
it will be - that depends on the people who belong to it. At the
very least it will be a way for the NDT to send news about events
and other developments
Anyone is welcome to join the forum, and send in emails,
provided that they keep to the Acceptable Use
Policy.
How to join the group
To keep things simple, the Forum has been set up as
a Yahoo! group. This arrangement means that you can choose whether
to be sent all messages, or look at them on the Yahoo! Groups site,
and you can subscribe and unsubscribe easily. The only snag is that
you need to register with Yahoo! before you can join the group -
but this only takes a couple of minutes. (Yahoo! is a reliable service,
and there is no reason to suppose that registering is in any way
risky.)
When you have finished registering
your browser will go automatically to the Yahoo! page for the
micro-enterprise group.
At the Yahoo! page for the group
you can choose how you want to see messages. If you choose to
have messages from the group sent to you by email, you won't
need to visit the Yahoo! site again!
If you have difficulties subscribing to the group,
or using it, please contact Steve
Dowson.
