by admin | Oct 11, 2010 | Blog, Eclectic Living
Imagine a vending machine that sees you coming and based on what it sees it offers you what it believes you will want. How does it know? Well, because of the demographic information programmed into it. But, from a marketing perspective, its real beauty lies not in its...
by admin | Sep 23, 2010 | Blog, Eclectic Living
Ever since I first read about Habitat for Humanity builds in Time magazine in the 1980’s I have wanted to take part in one of their builds. Initially, it was because I loved the idea of building a house – I have a thing for tools. In more recent years, it was also...
by admin | Sep 7, 2010 | Blog, Eclectic Living, Women and Politics
I hemmed and hawed about whether the title to this blog should be following your passion AND making your life work or if it should read, as it does now, with OR as the conjunction representing the need to make a choice. I chose to go with “or” because there is so much...
by admin | Aug 4, 2010 | Blog, Eclectic Living
Over the years I have worked on and developed many project plans. In groups I often end up being the one who asks the questions that help us outline a strategy. It is something I do well, BUT, it is something that if you start with the ten easy steps listed below can...
by admin | Jun 10, 2010 | Blog, Eclectic Living, Uncategorized
For many years now I have made the effort to attend a variety of women’s events. For the majority of these years I have been sorely disappointed, at times frustrated and on occasion felt ripped off. In the past year this has begun to change. I’ve attended a couple of...
by admin | Jun 4, 2010 | Blog, Eclectic Living
On May 18, 2010, the Globe & Mail’s Martin Mittlelstaedt reported the forestry sector sees “green as the colour of hope”. It appears that Canada’s rapidly shrinking forestry sector ($80 billion last year down to 54 billion this year) is looking to “green” itself...