Milk.ly

HelenM

<h1 class="headline" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 10px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); text-align: left; ">London Living Season introduces Milk.ly</h1><ul style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 5px 10px 15px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; "><li style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.haringey.gov.uk/bullet-one.gif); margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; line-height: 1.5em; background-position: 0px 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Category : <strong style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; ">Community events</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.haringey.gov.uk/bullet-one.gif); margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; line-height: 1.5em; background-position: 0px 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Event date : <strong style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; ">Wednesday 5 December 2012</strong></li></ul><hr style="border-width: 2px 0px 0px; border-style: dashed; color: rgb(76, 114, 29); margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: left; "><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; "><strong style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; ">What's Milk.ly all about?</strong><br>David Griffin explains about this newly launched community skill sharing platform enabling local entrepreneurship and the desire to 'Do what you really love!..</p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; "><strong style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; ">Show, share and sell with your easy online store<br></strong>Milk.ly lets you easily build a beautiful online store in minutes to share and sell your work. "Mumpreneurs", locals with services, skills or talents you're serious about using; come along and find out more about registering for free.</p><ul style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 5px 10px 15px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; "><li style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.haringey.gov.uk/bullet-one.gif); margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; line-height: 1.5em; background-position: 0px 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Free event: Wednesday 5 December 2012 - 5.30pm</li></ul><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 1em 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; ">Enquiries: 020 8489 8776</p><hr style="border-width: 2px 0px 0px; border-style: dashed; color: rgb(76, 114, 29); margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: left; "><ul style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 5px 10px 15px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; "><li style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.haringey.gov.uk/bullet-one.gif); margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; line-height: 1.5em; background-position: 0px 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Venue : <strong style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; ">Stroud Green & Harringay Library, Quernmore Road, N4 4QR</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://www.haringey.gov.uk/bullet-one.gif); margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; line-height: 1.5em; background-position: 0px 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Price : <strong style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; ">Free</strong></li></ul>

miss annie

This is today? If I'd known sooner I would have come along!

andy

jargon: "newly launched <span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">community skill sharing platform enabling local entrepreneurship:</span><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; font-size: 10pt;">translation: "online shop". </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;">Perhaps even "virtual sweatshop" if you were being specific.</span></div>

HelenM

Annie - all the library events in Haringey are advertised in a monthly booklet that you can pick up in the libraries on the 1st of the month. This was also on the council website. I can give you an email address for Milk.ly if you would like? Don't tell Andy though! <div><br></div><div>Andy - I promote events at Stroud Green & Harringay Library, so I don't have any interest in Milk.ly itself but accusing someone of running a virtual sweatshop seems a bit unnecessary. I'm certain there's room for more than one website per area.</div>

andy

<font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">It's the jargon I object to, not the website. There are loads of these sites popping up, especially in the US.</font><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">They are a mixed bag. On one hand, it's good that you can connect people who want jobs done with people who want to do them. On the other hand, it creates a race-to-the-bottom culture of bidding low for odd jobs and getting around the minimum wage and any other sort of social protection. Which is what a virtual sweatshop would look like.</font><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">It's like Wonga. In the abstract, perfectly reasonable. In practice, often unreasonable.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="font-size: 10pt;">Here is an article in the well known communist revolutionary pamphlet, BusinessWeek about taskrabbit, which is basically the same:</div><div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2">http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-13/my-life-as-a-taskrabbit</font></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">So having written this, it might be that it's not just the jargon I object to.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Can anyone with a nice powerpoint presentation get a pitch at the library?</div>

Harry Wood

Sounds quite interesting to me... but I see I've missed it. You should've gone there aren heckled andy :-)

Mirandola

'Mumpreneur'? Really? I'd have them shot for that alone.

gardener-joe

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Mirandola

The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for 'entrepreneur'

emine

Mumpreneur always makes me feel ill, but it's not as bad as "mummy porn"

ADGS

'Mummy porn' always makes me think of the other sort of mummy. And then I start coming up with names like 'Tutwankhamen' and 'Ram-her-ses', and it's all downhill (or downpyramid) from there.