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  1. The NHL Is Losing Its Brains

    4/23/12 4:27pm by zchamu
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    NHL game via Flickr

    Because they’re all getting smashed in to a pulp against the boards.I’m telling you, [NHL exec] Brendan Shanahan has got to feel cursed. Here he is, with the highest TV ratings of a playoff round in years. The US audience is actually tuned in for a change. And yet at the same time, every single night his iPhone lights up with 10,724 voice mails, texts and twitter messages about yet ANOTHER player getting floored by yet ANOTHER dirty head shot.Hope he has a flat rate for texting, is all I can say.  Read more >

  2. The Potty Is My Alamo (And I Can't Blame My Child)

    3/27/12 9:00am by zchamu
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    potty training

    I am pretty sure I'm doing this potty training thing wrong. mean, I think I know "how" to do it "right," or at least "right" by various wise people's definitions. Except I can't seem to do it. My part, anyway. I cannot just bite the bullet and pitch the diapers and just DO THIS. This is my first real parenting mountain that I'm having trouble climbing, as it were. Potty training is scaring the crap out of me.  Read more >

  3. Clarification on ticket reselling

    7/24/11 10:16am by zchamu in BlogHer '11 Community Forum Comments (1)
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    Hi all, I'm seeing conflicting information on whether you can resell tickets at this date. I want to ask for clarification on it. I understand BlogHer won't put new names on the badges. But if I sell my ticket and someone else shows up under my name, can they collect my badge and just put their business card in it or otherwise display their name?Also, were we meant to get tickets in the mail this year?Thanks!  Read more >

  4. The Great Unsubscribe of 2010

    11/12/10 12:30pm by zchamu
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    Inbox

    My inbox overflowed. Every single day. Emails. Emails. Insane amounts of emails. My inbox was crazy. All of my inboxes were packed. I have 7 inboxes that I actively use, and all of them were crazy, with my primary account being the craziest of all. And were these emails from friends, family, business contacts? No. These emails were from marketers trying to sell me things. And it was all my own fault.  Read more >

  5. Babies, BlogHer and complete and utter denial: a self-pitying rant.

    6/15/09 11:30am by zchamu
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    So I was 38 weeks pregnant yesterday. And yet I still hold a valid ticket and hotel reservation for this.  Read more >

  6. Motringate: The ad wasn't the issue. Motrin just didn't listen.

    11/17/08 8:45am by zchamu
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    OK so, if you have a life outside the internet, and if you don't find yourself obsessively checking Twitter all the time, and you're generally not a big fat geek, you may not have heard of Motringate. The Reader's Digest version goes, Motrin posted an ad on their website.  Read more >

  7. What it's like for a Canadian: An Electionary Fable.

    11/5/08 1:36pm by zchamu
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    It's as if you had a sister. A sister you loved dearly, who you certainly had some disagreements with but who overall you really loved and wanted the best for. And for a long time, your sister has been making really bad choices in men. And even though you kept telling her that these jerks she was with were no good for her, in reality all you could do was watch, because she wasn't going to listen to you anyway.  Read more >

  8. It isn't about Obama.

    11/4/08 9:16am by zchamu
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    It's about You. It's about millions of people just like You. People who are being inspired. Being engaged. For perhaps the first time in their lives, feeling like they are a part of Something. Something they'll tell their grandchildren about. Something that will be legendary. Something that will change America, and change the world. And it's not going to be because Obama is in the White House. It's going to be because You put him there.  Read more >

  9. John McCain, Air Quotes, and Abortion.

    10/29/08 10:04am by zchamu
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    Ever since John McCain used air quotes to mock the "health of the Mother" as being, in his view, an "extreme pro-abortion stance", womens' groups, political pundits and bloggers have been on fire with discussion.  Read more >

  10. Pitbull in Lipstick, or Chihuahua on a sparkly golden leash?

    9/10/08 3:03pm by zchamu
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    Am I the only one who's disturbed by the way the Republican party is marketing Sarah Palin? She's a "Barracuda".  She's a "Pitbull with Lipstick". What's the implication here?  Read more >

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I am an Ottawa mom, writer, wife, beagle owner and all-round chum. I originally came from Nova Scotia and while I left many years ago, I have not lost the ability to dismember a lobster with my bare hands. I worked for many years in high tech in both Canada and the UK as as a Technical Consultant, Engagement Manager and Director of Client Services in a number of companies including Adobe, Tomoye, Shopify and Overlay.TV. Now I'm a full time mom and social media darling. I co-host the Ottawa Brain Drain, a semi-frequent gathering of similar Social Media minds. I also do social media consulting and other work during naptimes, including communications for BlissDom Events and writing at the best places on the internet.

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