{"id":520,"date":"2009-03-06T06:12:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T06:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localenterprise.wordpress.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2009-03-06T06:12:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T06:12:57","slug":"smartacom-a-step-in-the-wrong-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2009\/03\/06\/smartacom-a-step-in-the-wrong-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Smarta.com &#8211; a step in the wrong direction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a year ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/d2yjp6\">blogged<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smarta.com\">smarta.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was essentially a one page site, full of short videos of entrepreneurs of all kinds talking about their response to certain questions and challenges.\u00a0 You just chose an entrepreneur and a topic and you were away.<\/p>\n<p>No sign ups, no profiles, no networks, no business tools. Just quick, easy access to technical and emotional support for entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>This month the full smarta service was launched.\u00a0 And it appears to have all the bells and whistles you would expect from an online entrepreneurs network.\u00a0 But it is, in my opinion, complicated, time consuming, unintuitive and all those great resources are now presented in a much less creative and serendipitous manner.<\/p>\n<p>I have joined smarta and will do my bit to help it work.<\/p>\n<p>Fingers crossed!<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Olympic Gold &#8211; It all starts with a dream&#8230;.\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/08\/10\/olympic-gold-it-all-starts-with-a-dream\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Olympic Gold &#8211; It all starts with a dream&#8230;.<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Improving Employability&#8230;\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/15\/improving-employability\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Improving Employability&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"How Should We Recognise a Successful Economy?\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/11\/how-should-we-recognise-a-successful-economy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How Should We Recognise a Successful Economy?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Inward Investment &#8211; What&#8217;s the problem?\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/01\/inward-investment-a-dummies-guide\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Inward Investment &#8211; What&#8217;s the problem?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Smile or Die &#8211; Why I don&#8217;t subscribe blindly to the school of positive thinking\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/04\/19\/smile-or-die-why-i-dont-subscribe-blindly-to-the-school-of-positive-thinking\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Smile or Die &#8211; Why I don&#8217;t subscribe blindly to the school of positive thinking<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a year ago I blogged about smarta.com. It was essentially a one page site, full of short videos of entrepreneurs of all kinds talking about their response to certain questions and challenges.\u00a0 You just chose an entrepreneur and a topic and you were away. No sign ups, no profiles, no networks, no business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[65,72,73,136,164,189],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-enterprise","category-entrepreneurship","tag-enterprise","tag-entrepreneursstories","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-network","tag-professional-development","tag-social-capital","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}