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#yvrkids: tech tuesday
Filed Under biz tips, tech tuesday | May 31, 2011
Hashtags on Twitter are wonderful things. They allow me to “watch” #canucks games while I’m working at my computer. Follow events I’m not at, check who’s tweeting about us as “yoyomama” and not “yoyomamadotca” and lots more. A hashtag unites global tweets around a particular topic or community and all they are is literally the [...]
just drop it: tech tuesday
Filed Under biz tips, tech tuesday | May 17, 2011
Have you discovered the joys of Dropbox yet? I was introduced to this ingenious product by the lovely Penny of Milk Factory fame a few years ago and have been evangelising about it ever since. Why? Because it’s so awesome. Dropbox makes your files available to you anywhere – on any of your computers, online [...]
qr code
Filed Under biz tips | September 26, 2010
Anyone as fascinated by these as my sister and I are? Anyone even know what this is? Here’s a quick explanation. And here’s mine: I found a great QR Code scanner App called Optiscan that cost $1.99 but I’d totally recommend. It’s FAST. And if you’re on a Blackberry try the BeeTagg QR Reader. It’s [...]
mamas rock: penny seto q&a
Filed Under biz tips, faces & places | August 18, 2010
Here’s the full transcript of our interview with Milk Factory’s Penny Seto. We couldn’t fit all her great thoughts into our article, so we wanted to run the full q&a here: What did you do before you became a mum? Ahhh. Important question, methinks! One that all mums must remember the answer to by keeping [...]
iLove apps
Filed Under biz tips, live and learn, things | June 1, 2010
I have want want wanted an iPhone for a long time now but was locked into a contract and couldn’t stump up the cash to upgrade from a Blackberry. Oops, maybe upgrade is the wrong word but after three whole days owning an iPhone – I’m an expert I know – I don’t actually think [...]
mother of all things intelligently green
Filed Under biz tips, eco friendly, faces & places | April 19, 2010
Here’s the full q&a of our conversation with Lisa Borden of Borden Communications + Design from a recent Mamas Rock profile. Lisa has so much passion that we just had to reprint our interview in full! What inspired Borden Communications? Having developed basic teaching and communication skills as a waterski instructor for seven summers for [...]
oh (green) mama
Filed Under biz tips, eco friendly, faces & places | March 17, 2010
Our interview with Manda Aufochs Gillespie, a.k.a. The Green Mama, went a little long. So we decided to publish the whole thing here as she’s just a wealth of green info! What inspired The Green Mama? My work found me. I worked for ten years in sustainability. I had a healthy lifestyle. I was passionate [...]
why k-y?
Filed Under biz tips, live and learn | March 12, 2010
As part of our blogging mandate to blog about growing our families and our business I wanted to share about a recent business dilemma – okay very small dilemma but still – I recently faced. As we get bigger and grow (yeah!) we’re also approached by and approaching bigger advertisers but when I first go [...]
neighborhoodiness
Filed Under biz tips, faces & places | August 12, 2009
When I popped into the Home Grow-In Grocer to get my Granola Girl fix a few weeks ago I blogged about it and then thought long and hard as to whether or not it would be a good subject for one of our daily editorial. It wasn’t particularly mum and baby focused but I thought [...]
in the end, good customer service will save the day.
Filed Under biz tips | July 23, 2009
We all experience poor customer service from time to time. And with it, that blinding fury of injustice that seems to only subside when we share the frustrating experience with people we know. Thanks to social media, our circles of influence have increased drastically and efficiently. What might have been a cathartic session by the [...]
