The Boss of You

When my busi­ness part­ner Emira announced that she was expect­ing a baby, my delight at her good news was accom­pa­nied by a creep­ing feel­ing of dread about tak­ing on some of her key respon­si­bil­i­ties at work while she went on mater­nity leave. See, we’d always divided the work­load between us so that while I handled […]

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Oh my good­ness. Where to begin?
We’re only a month into 2010, and already it’s a doozy. Emira’s started mater­nity leave (more on that soon); we just hired a new employee; and we’re in a bit of a tug-of-war on a busi­ness mat­ter that I don’t really think I should talk about here, but will just say […]

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Nearly 10 years in, I still get asked all the time how we came up with the name Raised Eye­brow Web Stu­dio. Maybe peo­ple are just being polite to me at networking-type events, but I always take it as a good sign that it’s an inter­est­ing enough name that they want to ask about it.
In our […]

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I hope it will come as no sur­prise when I say that we don’t always live up to the stan­dards we put forth in our book. We’re human, after all, and although we believe pas­sion­ately in cre­at­ing and cel­e­brat­ing new mod­els for suc­cess, not every day at Raised Eye­brow is a ban­ner Boss of You […]

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Yes­ter­day I received a very top­i­cal and timely email in my inbox from one of my favourite email newslet­ters, Yoy­oBelly. The email, which you can read here, was all about Employ­ment Insur­ance in Canada for gals tak­ing time off to have a baby and for those of you work­ing in Canada and plan­ning for a […]

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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 Grass­roots Business […]

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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 balance […]

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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 your workload […]

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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 other, or […]

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Next March, many of us Van­cou­verites are going to be sweep­ing up the con­fetti from the 2010 Win­ter Olympics — but some of us will be recov­er­ing from that civic-chaos hang­over by div­ing straight into another whirling cloud of mad­ness, the geek con­fer­ence extra­or­di­naire, South by South­west. (No, not the cool music festival. […]

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