This is an exciting week for me. I have a truly inspiring interview for tomorrow's Smart Man Online post, and I've been exchanging wonderful emails with members of the American Marketing Association's Internet/ecommerce SIG, having been invited to do so by Toby Bloomberg over at Diva Marketing, one of my favorite blogs. Gee whiz, all the blogs you see linked from Lip-sticking are my favorites! I have quite a few more in my bloglines list, but until I get on the stick and set this blog up with categories, I can't add them all.
Back to the excitement; I also stopped over at Kirstin Osolind's book tour at re:invention blog. Kirsten is interviewing Tom Ehrenfeld, author of The Startup Garden. Thanks for the compliment on my hat, Kirsten. From what you've revealed so far, it sounds like I need to read The Startup Garden soon and post it to my reading list!
Jane has been busy, also. According to Paul Soltoff, over at ClickZ, Jane,
Multitasks, switching quickly back and forth between work and family, home and friends.
She is also a Multibuyer, responsible for investigating and purchasing everything from groceries, clothing, and school supplies to gifts and itmes for herself.
Plus, she consumes several media simultaneously, accessing TV, magazines, Internet, radio, and other media, often while on the way to work, at work, on the way home, and at home.
And, she's a multithinker, making lists of what has to be done, thinking and planning so everyone in her life is taken care of.
This is exactly what Lip-sticking would like you to embrace; that in her role as a multitasker and multithinker, uppermost in Jane's mind is the goal of taking care of everyone in her life.
Over at DiversityInc, an article by C. Stone Brown shows that women are on the receiving end of some business dollars dolled out by the national political conventions. You will need to register to see the actual article, but it's worth it: Brown notes that "So far, more than 30 companies owned by persons of color or women have earned contracts with the convention." He says the Democratic host committee has "a business liason and outreach committees, which were created to educate and promote opportunities to potential vendors, particuarly businesses owned by women and people of color." Apparently the Republican host committee spokesperson did not reply to Diversity Inc's request for an interview, leaving us wondering where they're putting their business transaction dollars?
Talk about Jane doing it all...I came across this little ditty in Reveries Magazine: "Skateboard Moms." How cool is that? This story is full of fun. Barb Odanaka, 41, decided not to give up her youthfulness. "It's all about recapturing that flow, that buzz, that wind-in-your-hair feel, and also coming home bloody," she told Marco R. della Cava in USA Today. And, not content to merely return to the streets with her skateboard in hand, this lady started her own website to support other Moms who love to skateboard! It's part of the International Society of Skateboarding Moms, an organization Barb started after hearing from Moms as far away as Argentina. The article goes on to say that many of these high energy, mentally stimulated, agile Moms are using this terrific sport to bond with their daughters, bringing the girls along to skateboard with them. Skateboarding Moms and their daughters!
What's not to like about that?
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