A few days ago the makers of pain-reliever Motrin (Johnson & Johnson) launched a commercial campaign that annoyed and outraged mothers around the world.

“That couldn’t have been written by a mother,” noted my sister, Jennifer. “The speak about how carrying your baby around is in fashion, but it’s certainly not a passing fad nor [...]

Gift cards are everywhere these days and just this morning I heard an ad for Safeway that boasted their selection of 100 different cards, from pre-loaded meals at Earls to weekend getaways at a Marriott hotel - you can give anyone, anything this holiday season and it will all fit nicely into an envelope.
While [...]

Last night at Yaletown Brewing, 6s Marketing revived Ideas on Tap after a decade-long hiatus (you can read more about the history of the event over on the sixty4media blog).
Ideas on Tap, an evening of networking that celebrates business n’ beer, saw five people from five seperate companies have one minute to pitch ideas and [...]

Whatever happened to the basement suite? Those were the days. Just a few weeks after the Quattro fire (by the way, it’s worth taking a look at some of the comments on that post), Surrey largest development, Infinity at Central City, is now seeking bankruptcy protection.
Photo via Caleb Quinton
The developer of the five-tower Infinity project [...]

As stated when I first started making my site open for advertisements, I will always disclose when a blog post is a part of a paid ad placement. As I choose my advertisers probably as carefully as they choose me, I make sure to remain above board for my readers.
UQ Events is the latest company [...]

Mondays and Tuesdays are my big writing days where I prepare my contributions for E!Online as well as HockeyStars. A big part of my new ventures into the realm of self-employment is freelance blog writing. Our company, sixty4media, offers tutorials, training, setup, coding, themes, podcasts, screencasts etc. but we can also find the right person [...]

Ever since I used Zipcar’s service for National Digital Media Day I’ve been hooked. I still walk where I need to go, take the bus etc. but it’s great to have that option. Last Sunday we were supposed to head out to Surrey so that my family could celebrate John’s birthday with him however, that [...]

This morning I was pretty down as I was having one of those moments when I started to question where all this blogging is going to take me. I’ve been working 12 hour days with our social media consulting company, Miss604.com, our podcasts, and my freelance gigs and I suppose it all just hit me [...]

Blogger relations panel at Convergence08Photo credit: Raul on Flickr
I have been asked to sit on a panel at the upcoming Making a Scene Conference that will be taking place at Granville Island from November 13-16, 2008. I’ll be talking about “The New Face of Marketing: Facebook, text and the bloggers’ world,” alongside Rebecca Coleman, Simon [...]

There are only four days left in my DreamBank campaign, raising funds to get me over to the Blog World conference while also contributing to Save the Children.
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank those who have tossed a nickel or ten my way in order to make this little trip possible.
Julie Szabo, [...]