Going Solo

I’m totally excited about this. If you’ve ever met me, you know I never go anywhere without my MOO cards. Here’s photographic evidence.

I even decided upon MOO cards as the main offline way to promote Going Solo, literally shoving as many as I could into people’s hands (OK — some took them willingly, I’ll admit).

So, no wonder I’m thrilled to announce that MOO is sponsoring Going Solo, and will be providing attendees with a stack of goodies, not least of them the sexy MOO MiniCard Holders, yes!

In addition to providing a sizeable part of the new-media-sphere with original business cards, MOO also have a range of cool products like postcards, StickerBooks, NoteCards, and a great blog written mainly by the lovely Denise.

If you weren’t familiar with MOO products by now, I can guarantee that you’ll be ordering MiniCards or StickerBooks as soon as Going Solo is over!

Finally! As I mentioned, the logo/branding/design aspect of Going Solo is proving more of a headache than I anticipated. I really really wanted to have it all sorted out for LIFT08, but that’s unfortunately not going to happen.

However, we do have something for you. We’ve been asked for stuff to show off on blogs wishing to promote Going Solo (which we’re very happy about), so we went and created some. Thanks to Carlos, who did all the hard work on the first version of these badges while I complained that it should be “more like this” and “a little like that”, and to Steph who came up with what you see below. There are two widths (180px and 150px) to accommodate various styles of sidebars, and also in compact form if you prefer something smaller.

Please hotlink to these images by copy-pasting the code provided.

<a href="http://going-solo.net/"><img src='http://climbtothestars.org/files/going-solo/going-solo-badge-180px.gif' alt='Going Solo conference for freelancers, May 16th, Lausanne (Switzerland).' /></a>

<a href="http://going-solo.net/"><img src='http://climbtothestars.org/files/going-solo/going-solo-badge-150px.gif' alt='Going Solo conference for freelancers, May 16th, Lausanne (Switzerland).' /></a>

<a href="http://going-solo.net/"><img src='http://climbtothestars.org/files/going-solo/going-solo-badge-180px-wide.gif' alt='Going Solo conference for freelancers, May 16th, Lausanne (Switzerland).' /></a>

<a href="http://going-solo.net/"><img src='http://climbtothestars.org/files/going-solo/going-solo-badge-150px-square.gif' alt='Going Solo conference for freelancers, May 16th, Lausanne (Switzerland).' /></a>

Carlos is also responsible for putting together the image file that graces the back of the Going Solo Moo cards that I’ll be carrying around with me at LIFT. Come and ask me for one when you see me!