EFA Chat - Help!

Gena needs help from sellers who attend the popular weekly chat in the Etsy Virtual Labs.

Gena says:

I need someone to help with with the weekly chats in gathering information together

I also need someone who can fill in every once and a while like this .... 27th August 08 I have a company meeting at work.

If you can help Gena out it would be a big help and also count as 'participation' for submitting your EFA Charity of the Month nomination. Gena will fill you in on the details but I don't think it's rocket science. A Northern Hemisphere EFA member would be most helpful as those of us in Australia and NZ are, I think, asleep then :-))

Convo. Gena at her store (link above) if you can help.

Meet Dogonwear, the EFA chat coordinator

Note from me: As many of you know, Dogonwear - a.k.a. Gena - leads the EFA street team weekly chats in the Etsy Virtual Labs (Thursday 10:30 to 11:30 ET). She also coordinated the EFA quilt project. Here's a little bit more about Gena - in her own words.



Gena says:
I am a "30-something" Southern woman, my business partner is Joan, and we are a collective ALL handmade shop. We worked at the same company for several years, but barely knew each other. We shared a desk, Joan during the day and Gena at night, and we also shared a dream. Each dreamed that some day she would own her own business, but it was just that, a dream. Then one day Fate stepped into our dream and downsized us right out of our jobs and, out of necessity and our shared love for our dogs, Dog-On Wear was born. Now the dream is reality! (Be careful what you wish for - you might just get it!)

Now we have been in business for almost 4 years, running from show to show. We like to support charities that are actively finding homes for shelter/rescue dogs, such as the http://www.bayareagreyhounds.org/, and we have incorporated this passion into our business which led us online so we could display more pictures of adoptable dogs.

We heard about Etsy on early morning TV (I believe it was the Martha Stewart show). EFA was the first team I joined. I was quiet for some time just watching and learning my way around. Once I decided I could fit in there I jumped in with both feet and have been making friends ever since. I find myself checking my Etsy "convos" before I go to my own e-mail. I have now developed a network of people with a common interest: animals.

In response to Michele's question below, the greyhound is Yukon, a retired racing dog who is looking for a forever home, and the Fox terrier/Pekinese mix at the right is Gena's dog (and top model!), Jonny.

EFA Virtual Lab Chat - new time!

New chat time! The EFA Chat hosted by Dogonwear will now be held every Thursday at 10:30 AM Eastern US time in the Etsy Virtual Labs.

Click on the orange "Teams" room to enter, then click on a seat to sit down.

Stop by and say hello if you can.

AMENDED VERSION ** Attention ** EFA Web-Chat Virtual Lab rooms

OK this is a new venture for us all at EFA a live chat in the Virtual Labs at Etsy. Times are on Wednesday 7 June at 10 am and 8th June at 9 pm.

Please support this or they won't let us do this again for ages :-(. We need fifteen folks to do this so, please, don't just think other people will do this, if you don't they might not, lazy huh? And think about it ....... don't you know that it's just amazing to be able to grab a hold of this technology and USE IT for ourselves.

We owe a big than you to Dogonwear for taking on the organisation of this. She has worked hard organising times, dates and liasing with Etsy.

You don't have to stand up and make a speech, just come along, say hello and support this new venture.