Posted in blog, blogging, family, technology on July 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In my TrendCentral newsletter this morning, I discovered a site that I love! Savvyauntie.com. A community for people just like me – PANKs (Professional Aunt, No Kids). FINALLY someone figured out how awesome it is to be an aunt, figured out that there are other women who love being aunts, and developed a platform to [...]
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Posted in apple, business, corporation, customer service, Mac, technology on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I received a survey from Apple today about my experience at the Genius Bar. They wanted me to rate my experience and give them feedback. Perfect — I had called the store and tried to find an email address but to no avail. So I filled out the survey and one hour later, a Genius [...]
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Posted in business, Business Week, economy, environment, money, recycle on July 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Who doesn’t need a little extra money these days? Pretty soon you may need to look no further than your trash can. This week, Business Week ran an article on the recycling and waste – an area of our economy that is booming despite the loses being felt in many other industries. Green collar jobs [...]
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Posted in books, career, childhood, dreams, Randy Pausch, technology, travel on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few months ago, I wrote a post about Randy Pausch after seeing The Last Lecture on YouTube. I followed his blog, read his book, and thought a lot about my childhood dreams. At 47, Randy passed away on Friday leaving us inspired to have as much courage to live our dreams as he did [...]
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Posted in career, economy, job, money on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Money concerns and economic worries are top of mind for nearly everyone in my life at the moment. Front page news, top of the evening nightly news broadcasts, and the subject of blog post after blog post. As an econ major and MBA, I’m fascinated by the psychology of money and it’s ability to shape [...]
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Posted in Africa, career, travel, volunteer on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Running off to the developing world to make a difference and contribute to humanity used to be the realm of young college graduates. Now, more and more professionals, solo or with family in tow, are finding themselves drawn to areas of the world where they can see the direct impact of their work improving the [...]
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Posted in books, DK Publishing, staycation, travel, vacation on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago I wrote about a family who sought advice on how to wrestle with the problem of not having funds to go on their annual summer vacation. They opted to create a fun summer vacation at home. I read some more evidence today that the trend is catching on quickly, and even [...]
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Posted in Africa, books, community, Hachette Book Group USA, travel on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hachette Book Group USA has put out another book that I fell in love with. (The first set of books from Hachette that caught my attention were those by Stephenie Meyer. I was thrilled to learn that Twilight is being made into a movie set to open on December 12, 2008!) This latest book, Say [...]
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Posted in communication, community, technology, Twitter on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“What are you doing?” is the only question that Twitter, the microblogging site, asks you to answer. In 140 characters or less, please. I had heard of the site a while ago though didn’t really get into it until March when I attended the BlogHer Business Conference in NYC. There, nearly all the attendees were [...]
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