Archive for April 30th, 2008
Sewing is a talent, one that not everyone has. It’s always great when I get to see a success story about a mom who takes her talent and turns it into a business. In this case, Caroline used her sewing skills to sew herself a unique diaper bag. She didn’t want what everyone else had. [...]
"Green Moms" Launch Family-Friendly Greensite
The Mercury News: Raising a child in a world with fears over toxic plastics in baby bottles and children’s toys isn’t easy, just ask any mom or dad. Things get even more complicated when you start to wonder which fruits and vegetables are most important to buy organic to avoid pesticide fallout, or even choosing [...]
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The Office Meeting – FedEx Kinkos
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When Hard Work Doesn’t Pay Off
From MSNBC.com BEIJING – A $286,000 sculpture in northeastern China that took two years to build was dismantled days before its unveiling because a senior government official disliked the color, local media said on Tuesday. “Fly,” a show-piece installation at a new airport terminal in China’s northern port city of Tianjin, was taken down after [...]
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Cube News: My Nuts Are Your Nuts
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Where Do You Go To Slack Off At Work?
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Coffee Shop Opens in Bad Economy
Wluct6: The economy may be struggling nationwide, but that isn’t stopping one entrepreneur from starting her own business in Escanaba. Cynthia Wakefield opened her coffee shop, Biggby Coffee, nearly two weeks ago in downtown Escanaba. Her goal was to not only serve a great cup of joe, but also to give patrons a great environment [...]
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Small print reads: “Come Face-To-Face With The Top Of The Food Chain. Book a behind the scenes tour with the lions at calgaryzoo.com.” Nothing says behind the scenes fun like the idea of being eaten!
Office Dominoes – Chaos In The Print Shop
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Springwise: Our brains resemble our muscles in one key respect: don’t exercise them, and they’re likely to lose strength. Conversely, many experts now believe that brains stimulated in a healthy manner can better resist debilitating mental conditions such as Alzheimer’s. Which begs the question: how to keep brains in top shape? The solution offered by [...]
Burp rags are the best friend of a new parent. All the spit up that happens when burping our babies after a bottle makes us thankful for a good burp cloth to help get us through that time in our children’s lives. It was Sheila McGoldrick that took the burp cloth that we all know [...]
Burp rags are the best friend of a new parent. All the spit up that happens when burping our babies after a bottle makes us thankful for a good burp cloth to help get us through that time in our children’s lives. It was Sheila McGoldrick that took the burp cloth that we all know [...]
Got An Idea That Could Make You Rich?
Fortune Small Business: A lot of businesses wisely secure partnerships with large corporations to help them refine, expand and properly market intellectual property. But it’s best to be cautious when you pitch your idea. Just this week a woman sued Victoria’s Secret for rejecting a product she pitched them and then putting the product on [...]
Entrepreneur Becomes Millionaire… Without Spending A Penny
Daily Mail: A businessman whose invention made him the star of BBC’s Dragon’s Den has made his first million just three months on – without spending a penny of the £150,000 investment. Budding entrepreneur Peter Moule, 53, secured the cash for his innovative plastic electrical wire junction box – called a “Chockbox” from two dragons [...]
Biz Resource: TypeRacer Tests Your Typing Skills
Webware: One thing that affects your productivity when using a computer is your typing speed. If you’d like to know how you stack up in the typing world, there’s TypeRacer–a wonderfully simple game that pits you up against other typers, and of course your 100-plus key stead. The goal is to type as well as [...]
10 Hacks To Improve Home Office Productivity
Lifehack: If you work from home, the central part of your work life is the home office. For some, that means the kitchen table, but most of us assign a specific room to be the base of operations and (try to) do our work from there each day. If you can’t identify the things that [...]
When your Internet service is interrupted, does your business stop? No Yes Internet outages are minor and have no effect. View Results In comments, tell us how you handle your business when you can’t get online.
