Milk.ly

edited December 2012 in Sharing
<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>

Comments

  • This is today? If I'd known sooner I would have come along!
  • 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>
  • 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>
  • <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>
  • Sounds quite interesting to me... but I see I've missed it. You should've gone there aren heckled andy :-)
  • edited December 2012
    'Mumpreneur'? Really? I'd have them shot for that alone.
  • edited December 2017
  • The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for 'entrepreneur'
  • Mumpreneur always makes me feel ill, but it's not as bad as "mummy porn"
  • '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. 
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