Shambolic Living

Digital Parents Conference 2013

Janine — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:05:41 +0000

I just spent two days in a castle with chandeliers dripping from the ceiling. Prince Charming wasn’t in attendance, although there was a Daddy Blogger who had ripped his shirt off by the end of proceedings, a brave thing to do in a room full of women! Here’s some of what I learnt. Slow blogging...

A Plea to Gen Y Social Media Inventors

Janine — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:53:43 +0000

Dear Gen Y Techno Nerds I’m calling an amnesty. Could you please stop the invention of any more social media. Just for a little while. Until I get my head around the ones you’ve already created. I’ve done my best. I’ve Tweeted, Facebooked, Instagrammed, Pinned. I know there is so much more out that, but...

A Blogging Birthday

Janine — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:47:46 +0000

Break out the champagne and cake, the blog is celebrating a birthday. Yep last Friday was the anniversary of my first post. Can you believe it has been a year? What a ride. At times I have felt like Alice stepping through the looking-glass into a wild and crazy world. There have been moments I...

I’m Calling A Meeting

Janine — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:01:07 +0000

This morning I have been so bereft of blogging ideas I’ve even packed the dishwasher to avoid the computer. I have a thousand and one ideas but all of them require some level of effort, a little bit of research, a touch of organisation, a request to interview people, preparation of photos, reading books to...

Blogging May Be Sending Me Insane

Janine — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:48:19 +0000

I’m starting to think there is a good chance blogging may be sending me insane. No really, I may need to pay money and go and talk to someone. But where the hell am I going to find a therapist conversant in wordpress.com vs wordpress.org/google page ranks/the merits of posting daily – or not/the possibility...

The Art of Procrastination

Janine — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 07:15:31 +0000

I am on holidays. They started last Friday and give me 10 straight days with no work distraction to undertake all those tasks I have been “gunna” do. It gives me 10 days to implement some of the ideas from the blogging conference. To focus on posts for the blog (maybe even get some written...

Things I Learned at Nuffnang Blogopolis 2012

Janine — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:50:18 +0000

I spent last Saturday at the Blogopolis conference, an oestrogen rich room of bloggers feasting on high tea and information overload. Non-bloggers amongst you, apologies I’ll see you tomorrow! Bloggers here’s my attempt to capture some of the knowledge transmitted on the day, in some cases just rough notes, others I have expanded upon. Pack...

Talking Blogging With Eden

Janine — Sat, 19 May 2012 06:00:51 +0000

Yesterday was a big day. I learnt how to Skype (I know way out of touch, even my Mum has been Skyping for years, but I’ve been busy alright). I had to learn how to Skype because I won a half hour chat with Eden Riley in a competition on her blog Edenland. Eden has...

My Pinterest Life

Janine — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:07:13 +0000

In my bid to create an award-winning blog that gains world-wide recognition and acquires me a Prius, a round-the-world holiday and a Thermomix (cause they are the sort of things you get offered as a top blogger – don’t anyone kill the dream) I am trying to embrace all the social media/apps/fads that are currently...

Best Australian Blogs 2012

Janine — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:34:02 +0000

Well in yet another “what the hell was I thinking” moment I’ve entered a blogging competition. Just me and 1023 others so it’s an intimate affair. There are a number of parts to the competition. You had to pick a category – I tossed a coin and ended up in the parenting section – I’m...