Today we’re pulling the wrapping paper off something very, very exciting. We are beyond thrilled to unveil a project we’ve been scheming about for a few months, which is to bring a chapter of the Grassroots Business Association to our hometown of Vancouver. As some of you may know, the gals who run the Seattle [...]
Entries from September 2009
Announcing the Vancouver Grassroots Business Association
September 29th, 2009 by Lauren · 4 Comments
Tags: Entrepreneurial Inspiration · Events · Our Story · Resources for Women in Business
The Balance Myth, Part 2
September 24th, 2009 by Lauren · 3 Comments
In my previous post on this subject, I suggested we relax our hold on the myth that we can achieve a perfect balance between work & personal life, online & offline, etc. This philosophical musing was inspired by the following question from a friend during an email conversation about Twitter: How the hell do you [...]
Tags: Business Advice · Our Story · Thoughts
The Balance Myth
September 23rd, 2009 by Lauren · 15 Comments
A friend of mine sent me an email today that contained 3 questions about Twitter. The first two were standard “how-to” questions (inquiring about such things as the simplest way to send a direct message), but the last one gave me pause for thought. Here’s what she asked me: How the hell do you balance [...]
Tags: Business Advice · Our Story · Thoughts
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Twitter
September 15th, 2009 by Lauren · 5 Comments
It was March 2007; I was in Austin for South by Southwest Interactive, the annual gathering of the tech-geek tribe, and it seemed like Twitter was all anyone wanted to talk about. The Twitter server kept crashing because everyone at SXSW was using it nonstop: to tweet about the panels & keynotes, to find each [...]
Tags: Business Advice · Our Story · Thoughts
