Archive for: April 2009

Blogging Ethics

Originally posted on: April 28th, 2009

There has been an awful lot of discussion, debate and, as is typical in the mommyblogging community, drama ever since the Wall Street Journal featured an article, Paid to Pitch. Anyone who has ever chatted with me on the subject knows I have some very strong opinions about blogging ethics. All bloggers need to keep [...]

Test Drive of A Full Cup Coupon Site

Originally posted on: April 4th, 2009

OK, so straight up, I am not a coupon clipper. I like the idea of it, and from time to time I’ve bought papers and cut them up. But from week to week, I just don’t have time to do that clipping and organizing. But then, you know, five humans and four pets and a [...]

NC Arboretum with Kids

Originally posted on: April 2nd, 2009

There is a local attraction that really doesn’t get mentioned often in the kid-friendly category, but it’s one of our favorite places to go with the kids: the NC Arboretum in Asheville. People don’t automatically think to take kids to an arboretum, but this one really has lots for little ones to do. There are [...]

Google Analytics Trap

Originally posted on: April 1st, 2009

Google Analytics is a great stats service, especially for the price tag (free). It has some options not seen in a few great paid stats providers, such as a nice tie-in to Adwords and cool map-clicking to get some geo data (although that data isn’t comprehensive or totally reliable). There’s one major problem though, especially [...]