http://blog.parentsguild.com By parents, for parents. Join the guild! Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:11:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/10/first-parents-guild-ad-ever/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/10/first-parents-guild-ad-ever/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:07:25 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=1316 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/10/first-parents-guild-ad-ever/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/07/further-thoughts-on-jeff-bezos-vs-state-of-ca/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/07/further-thoughts-on-jeff-bezos-vs-state-of-ca/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:46:54 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=1296 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/07/further-thoughts-on-jeff-bezos-vs-state-of-ca/feed/ 1 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 [...] http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/07/amazon-how-could-you-dump-us-an-open-letter-to-jeff-bezos/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/07/amazon-how-could-you-dump-us-an-open-letter-to-jeff-bezos/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:07:30 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=1284 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/07/amazon-how-could-you-dump-us-an-open-letter-to-jeff-bezos/feed/ 21 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 [...] http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/04/finally/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/04/finally/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:10:59 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=1254 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/04/finally/feed/ 3 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 [...] http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/12/new-face-for-the-blog/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/12/new-face-for-the-blog/#comments Sat, 18 Dec 2010 06:23:13 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=1175 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/12/new-face-for-the-blog/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/12/going-plain/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/12/going-plain/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:24:20 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=1154 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/12/going-plain/feed/ 0 Pardon our new look. Or, rather our un-look. Going to begin to css-ify this blog. http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/07/redesign-part-ii-logos-continued/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/07/redesign-part-ii-logos-continued/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:43:58 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=939 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/07/redesign-part-ii-logos-continued/feed/ 10 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! http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/07/redesign-in-the-works-first-up-logos/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/07/redesign-in-the-works-first-up-logos/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:21:02 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=869 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/07/redesign-in-the-works-first-up-logos/feed/ 9 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 [...] http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/07/we-have-a-winner/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/07/we-have-a-winner/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:54:09 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=898 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/07/we-have-a-winner/feed/ 1 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 [...] http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/07/kqed_forum/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/07/kqed_forum/#comments Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:26:03 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=888 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2010/07/kqed_forum/feed/ 1 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) [...]