TweetWhile at Blissdom Canada ’10 I had the opportunity to sit and chat with Candace Derickx of Best Tools for Schools. She’s a smart cookie and I’ve admired her since I first “met” her on Twitter. I apologize about the banging, clanging and general state of chaos of the interview site. Candace and I wandered…
Category Archives: entrepreneurial journey
Lots of deep breaths and a few leaps
Tweet Let’s take a look at where I was this time last year – looking forward to 2010: 2010 is not going to be a year of resolutions for me. (I’ve never been a fan of resolutions anyway, so not having them is really not that much different for me!). This coming year…. which, by…
The yo’ books birth story
TweetI had a job up until September 2009. I’d always had a job. Ever since I graduated from Marketing in college. I graduated in April and started in May. I’ve had a full-time job with benefits since 1995, except when I moved to Toronto and had decided to change careers. I always chose when to…
I was born to do this. Literally.
TweetFrom as far back as I can remember my mom always had her camera with her. (And my mom is a big reason why I’m doing this – then and now.) We have pictures of almost everything. Lots of photo albums full of great memories (because we don’t photograph the bad usually, do we?). Lots…
I had a Facebook party and all I got was a bunch of awesome
Tweet I had planned to do a Twitter party to officially launch yo’ books and the website – www.yobooks.ca. I had seen Twitter parties done successfully by a number of people. Two that come to mind immediately are Eric Alper (@thatericalper) who has thrown parties using the hashtag #ericparty. (For those of you not on…
Why am I doing this?
TweetWhy am I starting yo’ books? Why have a ventured onto this scary-ass path and not just stayed on the ‘safe’ road of a steady paycheque and benefits? Why? Instead of saying these words to my children, I hope to show them with my actions. I am doing this so they have the strength, the…