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Ursh's  entrepreneurial skills emerged by the age of eight when she founded a nature club and magazine, and would sell membership subscriptions to the neighbours. She also set up a business selling second hand stamps to her friends.  But she needed robust tools to grow her businesses, and her ultimate childhood dream was to own a typewriter.  She learnt to touch-type on a piece of paper with a hand-drawn keyboard until she got the real deal.

Fast forward a few years and Ursh still loves tapping away on keyboards, small business and and nature. She approaches her work with the same enthusiasm and spark she did as a child.  Her experience to date has perfectly equipped her work with websites and the online universe.

While teaching at TAFE, she learnt how to deconstruct complex concepts and convey them to her particular audience and she was regularly chosen to teach to special needs groups such as newly arrived migrants as well as Indigenous students (so if you feel you have special needs in understanding technology, you have come to the right place).  To this day one of her greatest joys is seeing someone learn a new skill which enhances their life in some way.

Ursh was also one of the first Learning Technology Mentors within TAFE when online learning was very much in its infancy and was concurrently appointed to the role of Virtual Communities officer where she worked to help staff understand how they could connect with each other for mutual benefit.

After leaving TAFE in 2002, Ursh spent the next five years completely immersed in a start up dot com online community, helping build it from a 'spare bedroom' operation to one of the largest online communities within its niche today.

She is now thoroughly enjoying building websites for small businesses and immersing herself in social media, as she believes this is where the future of some exciting opportunities lie.

 

A more detailed work history can be found on Linked In