Tada. Our very first placed advertisement will appear, in print, in one of our favorite parenting publications this winter – Brain, Child Magazine. In fact, a version of the ad is already live on their site. We’re super excited. We must be real, right, if we’re advertising? ;) By the way, if you don’t yet [...]
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Further thoughts on Jeff Bezos vs State of CA
On thinking about this a bit more after all the awesome points raised in the blog comments and on Hacker News… it occurs to me that as a consumer – I buy an item from my house, it arrives at my house – to me, the point of sale is my house. It doesn’t matter [...]
Amazon, how could you dump us? An open letter to Jeff Bezos
Dear Jeff, My husband and co-founder Steve and I have been long-time fans & customers of Amazon. I love what your company brought to online retail, and I love what you’ve brought to our home in particular – books, children’s toys, electronic devices, the kindle, streaming movies, the Amazon Visa card. For awhile you were [...]
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Finally!
We’ve finally freakinlutely unveiled our redesigned website. The graphics have changed (a lot), the functionality largely hasn’t. Go on, check it out. Let us know what you think. Some things that might trip you up a bit at first: there’s no more static homepage describing the mission of the site, we’re just dropping you straight [...]
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New face for the blog
Okay, thanks for bearing with all the construction debris. The new face for the blog – at least phase 1 of the new face – is now complete. Time for the site to catch up, and then I’ll go back and polish off the blog to match… This blog is now using the WordPress framework [...]
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Going plain!
Pardon our new look. Or, rather our un-look. Going to begin to css-ify this blog.
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Redesign, part II: Logos continued…
Last week we mentioned that we’re working with a visual designer to refine the Guild’s look and feel, beginning with logos. Round 1 was here (thanks for the comments & offline feedback!) Todd has since iterated on a narrower set (click to see larger): Again, your thoughts and feedback welcome!
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Redesign in the works! First up, logos.
Happy to say we’re working on an aesthetic refresh of the Parents Guild site, blog and logo. We selected Todd Linkner to lead the daunting effort, and we’re happy we did, he’s amazing. We have no plans to change key functionality but lots of plans to refresh and “upgrade” the look and feel. And we [...]
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We have a winner!
Congratulations to simplymerry in Cheyenne, WY! With an inspired burst in the waning hours of the contest, producing 14 “Likes” and 11 tweets for her question “Cloth diapering, is it worth it?” seemingly out of thin air (aka the magic of social media), simplymerry is the proud new recipient of a $100 gift card for [...]
Parents Guild mentioned on NPR!
It’s the little things that make your day, right? A smile first thing in the morning from someone you love. A nice little exchange with the first person you see out of the house. Or getting the kids packed off for the day and realizing today’s Forum hour (on KQED 88.5, our local NPR station) [...]
