The Boss of You

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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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The economic woes we’re facing right now feel awfully familiar.
See, Emira and I started our business in February 2000; by the end of that summer, our industry (and in fact all things web-related) had experienced the first big dot-com crash. Our friends and family wondered at times if we’d hitched our horses to the wrong [...]

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