Every year for the past 37 years, a folk music festival had been held in Israel called Jacob’s Ladder. The founders moved here from England and missed the rich folk music culture so much that they created their own festival. For the past few years, the festival has been held on the...
Have you received a ...
posted by Jo Savill
I recently received the Liebster Blog Award. After my initial excitement, I realised I'd been awarded a meme. A meme is an idea, behaviour, style, image, or video that spreads from person to person like a virus.
Oops! Did I choose a...
posted by Jo Savill
I sit at my desk in our apartment in Tel Aviv, and every other day I wonder if I’ve made the right career choice. Being a freelancer and helping run a small business is not always what I thought it would be. I worry about money. I worry that I haven’t found my purpose. I worry...
A beginner’s guide t...
posted by Jo Savill
Part 3 in my series on how to get your business online. Social media can be a powerful marketing tool for small businesses. It allows you to communicate directly with current and potential customers. You can update your followers with the latest news from your business, ask questions,...
I have a website, no...
posted by Jo Savill
Part 2 in my series on how to get your business online. 8 things you can do to get people to your site and help you understand how they find it.
How to create your o...
posted by Jo Savill
Part 1 in my series on how to get your business online. 6 easy steps to creating your own website - tips, recommendations, and lots of info for beginners in the virtual world.
Not deciding what you want to do with the rest of ...
posted by Jo Savill
When we were children, we were always asked by adults “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I can remember some of my answers from the ages of 5 to 10: I wanted to be a hairdresser, an actress or generally famous. How can a 5 year old answer a question like this? After age 10 I started saying “I don’t know”, and I’ve been saying that ever since. I’m not a person of one calling (life would be so simple if I was!). I’m interested in many things. I know a fair bit about a lot of things. And I become interested in something new every other day. To decide on just one things feels like I’m strangling my potential. I...
5 lessons from 5 wee...
posted by Jo Savill
Stick Around has been available for five weeks now. These five weeks have been filled with amazing moments, like the first time someone bought Stick Around online, and when the first store in Tel Aviv started selling our product. We love seeing when people take Stick Around into their hands,...
5 great things about...
posted by Jo Savill
1. You don’t get sick much This is the first time I’ve caught a cold since December. Last winter, when I was working in an office, I had a cold every month. Everyone in the office was constantly infecting each other, coming into work when they were contagious with a virus. When you...
What is an entrepreneur?
posted by Jo Savill
I’ve been writing about entrepreneurship for almost three months now, but the other day Amit said that he doesn’t really feel like an entrepreneur. So I started investigating – are we entrepreneurs, a small business, or just kids playing? en•tre•pre•neur/ noun. A definition of entrepreneurship that describes why it is so challenging yet at the same time so exciting comes from the Harvard Business School professor Howard Stevenson: “Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.” From Inc.com This certainly describes the risk-taking behaviour inherent in entrepreneurship....
What is your working...
posted by Jo Savill
What is your working style? Amit and I started to have morning meetings, but the length of our to-do lists started causing me angst!
Escape the City
posted by Jo Savill
About a year ago I came across a website called Escape the City. It is designed for people wanting to escape their big corporate job, and find the thing that makes them come alive. It is an idea that resonates with a lot of people. Every week the Escape crew send out a newsletter with 10 top...
Are you a science to...
posted by Jo Savill
I began to think about Science Tourism the other day when I reflected on our recent honeymoon on Heron Island, a small coral cay in the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. One thing I really loved about our stay on the island was how accessible science was, which makes it a...
Launching Stick Around and josavill.com!
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Last week was a huge week, with not one but two launches from our home: 1. The launch of our first product – Stick Around! 2. The launch of my new website josavill.com – you’re looking at it! This is all very exciting. After a few months of talking about being an entrepreneur, I can now say that I am one with the launch of Stick Around! Stick Around Stick Around are stickers that help you learn Hebrew. The packet contains 529 stickers, each with a Hebrew word, its translation and how to pronounce it, to stick on objects around your house. It was inspired by stickers that Amit hand-made for me one day to help me learn...
How I became a science communicator
posted by Jo Savill
I’m a science communicator- people often ask me what this mean, and really it’s in the title. I communicate science. I help others communicate science. I write about science, develop communication strategies, write science shows, create educational material, and present on radio shows. Most of the time I help scientists communicate what they do via web pages, articles for magazines and newspapers, and newsletters. I write about science in a way that’s accessible to more people than just scientists or those that have studied science. I make science accessible and relevant to everyday life. As an university undergraduate I...
Nanotechnology dilem...
posted by Jo Savill
Watch videos about consumer dilemmas in nanotechnology - with my voice-over!