Traveling with your favorite beauty products is a pain, no matter which way you slice it. Either you’re squeezing lotions and potions into too-tiny bottles, crossing your fingers that you have enough serum or face scrub to make it through your trip, or you lug your full-sized bottles with you, and you’re the poor girl waiting for your baggage long after the carry-on crew has left the building. Thankfully, the ladies at 3floz.com have a better way— they send you TSA-approved, travel sized bottles of your favorite high-end beauty products. Have them shipped to your house so you can pack them before you leave, or send them to your destination so they’re waiting to make you beautiful when you get there. 3floz.com is proof that good things come in small, security-friendly packages.
If you could give advice to your pregnant, pre-kid self, what would you say?
During the summer I spent in the Great White North, I had the opportunity to be involved in a photo-shoot-turned-tear-jerker video project that asked that very question. When I smiled and held up my card, I had no idea what a powerful message would result when all our collective wisdom was strung together with music. Check out this beautiful video, masterminded by Scott Stratten from Unmarketing and Alison Kramer from Nummies. Thanks so much for including me. It was so fun to be a part of it!
If you could go back and talk to your pregnant self, what would you say? Let me know in comments!
Sometimes, you want to shop in your jammies. You want to point, click and buy. You want your spoils to arrive in a brown box carried by a man who looks good in brown shorts.
God bless the internet!
There are some times, however, when the internet just doesn’t cut it. Maybe you want to get up close and personal before you make your final purchase decision, or you just crave that instant gratification that Mr. Buy It Now button just can’t provide.
When you want to research online but shop local, use Milo.com to see what’s available at local stores in real time. Milo scans the shelves of stores near you so you know what’s available where before you leave home— no more running from store to store hoping that they’ve got what you need. Clothing, home improvement, electronics, books and more… if it’s in Milo’s database, you’re assured a successful trip to the local store.
Recipes are fun. Organizing recipes and creating shopping lists is not. Enter ZipList, the app that helps make easy work of keeping your recipes all in one place (even the ones you tear out of doctor’s waiting room magazines), and creating shopping lists from the recipes you want to make each week. Check out the video and watch how easy it is to get started creating a digital shopping list that anyone can update and won’t get left on the fridge.
What’s your biggest grocery/meal planning challenge? And where do you get your recipes from? I’d love to hear from you!
A few months back, I reviewed Passpack, an online password management system that safely stores all the usernames and passwords for all the websites you visit online. At the time, I had only begun to play with Passpack’s power app, and since then have transferred every last login and use it every day. So it’s time to reintroduce… Passpack!
Passpack securely stores all my passwords and gives me one-click access to any site whose information I store in it’s Fort Knox-like coffers. You can create the most complex, hacker-resistant passwords and never have to worry about keeping track of them all. Your information is so deeply encrypted, not even the folks at Passpack can access the information! But you, my friend, can access it from anywhere.
I’m thrilled to be representing Passpack at BlogHer this week. Check out these videos to learn more about how their awesome app works.
How to use Passpack’s Auto Login and One Click Login features
How passpack keeps your information secure
How to use Passpack to securely share passwords with a team
Tweets, pokes, followers, friends… sometimes social media can feel less like a cocktail party and more like being a waitress at a cocktail party. It can be such a project to keep up with all your social media channels, and who really has the time to nurse them all with frequency?
That’s where Nutshell Mail comes in. It delivers the latest happenings from all your social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn) to your Inbox in an easy-to-read digest. With easy set up and customization, you can get the 411 in one, digestable email— click on any link or post and go straight to the web to react, or just read it and get on with your day.
I’ll show you how to get an account, and what your email will look like when it shows up in your Inbox!
What do you you do with all the articles and blog posts you want to read… later? How do you track all those pages so that you can find them all when you have time? And what if you don’t have an internet connection when it’s time to start reading? Read It Later answers all those questions and more– watch this 2 minute video where I show you how to use this simply powerful application to track things you want to read later.
Are you feeling the schedule crunch? Cozi.com wants to help you simplify and organize family life. They have “just enough” technology– everything you need and nothing you don’t– to keep in touch and coordinated with your family members. Plus to-do lists, shopping lists, and a great journal to help you jot down quick memories and photos to share with family and friends. It’s FREE and easy to sign up and get started!
Evernote is like a part of my brain— I use it to store all kinds of digital information I want to retrieve later. Web clippings, voice memos, notes, emails… there’s nothing digital that Evernote can’t store and organize for you, taking the strain off your brain and putting you in control of all your digital scraps. In this video, I’ll show you some ways I use my Evernote, and maybe you’ll get some ideas for how to use yours!
Is your Inbox bulging with correspondence overload? Does looking at it make you want to curl up in the fetal position? Fret no more: OtherInbox.com has come up with a nifty web application that analyzes your inbox and organizes all the letters that aren’t from “real people” (ie. Amazon receipts, Ebay notifications, Facebook friend requests, department store coupons…), giving you room to see the important emails from friends, co-workers and family. It’s a snap to set up, and will help you manage your Email Overload!
Working with Carley made me highly motivated to continue and build on the work I’ve been doing. I love the way she knows you can do things even when you aren’t sure. Her energy is amazing and yet she has a calming presence at the same time. Her practical approach to getting things done really does allow you to move forward on the things you want to accomplish. — Erin Baebler, Life Coach, The Magnolia Workshop
