It can be daunting plunging straight into meeting people when you have no idea who anyone is. So we've created lots of ways you can begin to get acquainted with things, online, at your speed.
When we start facing our fears, moving out of our comfort zone and going outside the front door, we can feel like the 'newbie' or the 'stranger' in town. Getting from there quickly and painlessly can seem a bit of a mountain to climb but not if you can easily familiarise yourself with what is happening locally.
Below are a few things you can get started with... cost nothing, but will begin opening up the flow of local information to you.
Join in with the online business support groups for South West Herts. Depending on your preferred platform you might pick the one that suits best or join in with both of them.
There are a couple of things you can do straight away which are quick and easy and begin connecting you fast.
If you follow the local South West Herts Facebook page, we will be in touch and invite you to subscribe to our Newsletters almost automatically.
The second thing... if you are a Twitterer... then connect with our L4GSWHerts Twitter account. We will definitely follow you back... and if you put @L4GSWHerts and or @SWHertsBDN at the end of your tweets... we'll retweet them (more on that elsewhere)
There is one for local business news and another for local community news. On alternate weeks. There are two websites introducing them, and you can subscribe easily through the websites themselves or via the links below.
Anyone who wants to send information in can do so... this is all part of sharing the good news that is going on around us all the time... sadly most of us just don't get to hear about any of it... that's all changing now.
Business Newsletter - Town Business Creatives (that's us)
Subscribe to receive this here ..... and take a look at the website / including newsletter archives here
The Community hub as the name evokes is the equivalent of the communications nerve centre for rebuilding community across our region. It's basically one great big website designed to be a place we collectively can post what is going on in our part of the local community.
What is different about the Community Hub is that there isn't some business at the heart trying to make money out of it, nor is there a bunch of editors filtering what 'is good to go on there'. Anyone in the community can, and is eligible to post, whether they choose too or not is another matter. It is a living, breathing, organic space that we can populate. So think about Facebook, it's empty without us posting... this community hub needs us to post too, but is designed to bring together our communities into a central place, no ads... not for profit... just to serve us.
There are Business Directories and places for local businesses to talk about themselves and what they are doing. Mini forums or noticeboards... all free to use and post in.
Take a look around... not every part is complete yet... that's where we all come in!