New Media

What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

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‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ is the question of the moment.Riley says she wants to be a Fire Engine Rescuer. I’m not sure if she wants to a person or an actual fire engine. But she also wants to know what I want to be and what Mr Goog wants [...]

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Criticism and Everything Else

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Often I don’t take criticism well. Part of it is my nature. I’m self critical enough, anything more can seem like too much. But the other part, the bigger part is that the vast majority of information I receive as a parent is negative. People are constantly giving you their advice or their opinions, telling [...]

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Preschool Preparations

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We went shopping on the weekend. One backpack. One lunch box. One snack box. One drink bottle. We already have all of those things from last year. But I thought it would be fun for Riley to get involved in the preparations and pick out her own stuff for the year. She chose an Angry [...]

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Will Blog for DPCON12

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I am speaking at the Digital Parents Conference 2012. I am honoured. I am humbled. I am excited. I am terrified beyond belief. I am panicking about passing out from sheer terror. It will be the first conference I’ve gone to without a second heartbeat. The first the Squishy was on the inside and others [...]

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One Month Is All It Took For Me To Almost Quit My Blog. Almost.

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Now sir you tell me the world’s changed Once I made you rich enough Rich enough to forget my name – Youngstown, Bruce Springsteen One Month. In two and a half years it’s the first time I’ve taken a step back from my blog. It allowed to think of it with far more fondness and [...]

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I am Greedy With My Community

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I’ll be honest. The problem I have with social media is that I’m building a community away from my blog. And I don’t fancy spending hours and hours of time invested in building someone else’s platform. Sure there’s alot of mutual benefits there and you won’t see me abandoning twitter or facebook or even google [...]

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The Veggie Mama Rocks a Tea Party

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I still get hungry looking at that. And yes, it was just as tasty as it looks. More tasty, even. Oh it’s possible, you just have to trust me. And was taking two kids in a four hour car trip worth it for just a one night stay? Absolutely. And I say that even when [...]

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Why Google and Klout are Dead to Me

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As I was surfing around procrastinating on Saturday morning I came across Styling You‘s post about how Google in their infinite wisdom are abolishing the Google Friend Connect widget for non-blogger blogs. I am not happy. I am so far beyond the opposite of happy. For those of you who have no idea what I’m [...]

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Blogger Engagement – It’s Not Rocket Science But It is An Art

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I’ve been to quite a few blogger events and it’s not because I like cleaning supplies or free stuff or whatever product that is on display. It’s because I like bloggers. That’s why I go. And that’s why I’m disappointed when I don’t go. I don’t think I’m alone in this. I think the vast [...]

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Cracking the StumbleUpon Code

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It’s like the DaVinci Code, only it’s actually a mystery. The enigmatic nature of StumbleUpon tends to create people who use it religiously in the hope of those viral hits or people who abandon it entirely as a waste of time. The biggest criticism I’ve heard about StumbleUpon is not about it’s inherent randomness but [...]

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