Oh, Froggy went a-courting and he did ride ... in a big, green plastic box that is an environmentally sustainable answer to the eternal cardboard conundrum. Dragon Den's Jim Treliving has a stake in this Vancouver-based company, so it must be a good thing, right? Well, actually, it looks like it probably is. Full disclosure … Continue reading Froggy Love
Tag: Competition
Driven
a guest post by Holly JahangiriI was telling one of my blogging buddies, today, what drove me to enter Weblogbetter’s Surviving the Blog Contest. “I had every intention of buying front row seats in the Peanut Gallery and heckling the contestants through comments and blow-by-blow commentary on my own blog. I was finally going to … Continue reading Driven
On losing
Of course when you take part in a competition, you run the risk of losing. I sent off little pieces to two competitions recently, and in both of them, I didn't even get an honourable mention. I have no idea where I ranked because they didn't say. I'm hoping not too near the bottom.On the … Continue reading On losing
Competition
Humans are funny creatures. Some of us just can't leave well alone, and feel a need to measure ourselves against others. Take my friend Holly Jahangiri. She's in the middle of an exhausting blogging competition that won't even let her do NaNoWriMo properly. This on top of her day job as a technical communicator and … Continue reading Competition