Pamela Chan, BCFamily.ca/Editorial Lean 30 : 30 days of keeping it lean and old school online. More This week as British Columbians took part in Pink Day, I noticed a stream of Pink Day photos in my social media accounts. People sported pink shirts, black shirts with pink writing or talked about their experiences on [...]

The term “personal brand” has reached a point of being overused. Many people in the business and social media communities are pushing back by focussing on the need to be authentic.

Pamela Chan, BCFamily.ca/Editorial Lean 30 : 30 days of keeping it lean and old school online. More This year my family took part in the kindergarten registration process in our local school district.  Individually, as a couple and as a family, my husband, two children and I attended information sessions, met with our neighbourhood school [...]

If there’s one thing I’ve discovered, since social media took root, it’s that people aren’t terribly fussed about Valentine’s Day.  I know without a doubt that there will be a number of “forget you, Valentine’s Day” posts along with cheery, inclusive messages to everyone on Valentine’s Day.  Since I didn’t get married until I was [...]

Pamela Chan, BCFamily.ca/Editorial Lean 30 : 30 days of keeping it lean and old school online. More This BC Family Day weekend my family members and I surprised ourselves.  We decided to go somewhere, grabbed our stuff, got in the car and got there in under 30 minutes.  It was only a ten minute drive [...]

Pamela Chan, BCFamily.ca/Editorial Lean 30 : 30 days of keeping it lean and old school online. More Wow – for an article about marriage and sex, this New York Times piece has it all.  It was written by Lori Gottlieb, psychotherapist and author of Marry Him: The Case For Settling for Mr. Good Enough*.  She [...]

Pamela Chan/BCFamily.ca Editorial It’s BC Family Day long weekend this weekend. Roll out the newspaper articles about events for families. Will you strike out to some of the venues this weekend?  They do sound enticing.  I’ve always wondered how many British Columbians actually do go around to BC Family Day weekend events. Or do they [...]

Pamela Chan, BCFamily.ca/Editorial Lean 30 : 30 days of keeping it lean and old school online. More It’s the major, “trending on Twitter” story of the evening -  “unconfirmed reports” that Toronto’s Mayor was ticketed for jaywalking at the same time that he was intoxicated. More specifically this went down in my neck of the [...]

Pamela Chan, BCFamily.ca/Editorial Lean 30 : 30 days of keeping it lean and old school online. More Last night when I was supposed to be thinking about the fifth installment in my Lean 30 series, I was looking at photos of dogs. I’ve discovered that in addition to dog adoption information on the BC SPCA [...]

Pamela Chan, BCFamily.ca/Editorial Lean 30 : 30 days of keeping it lean and old school online. More As a mid stream Gen-Xer, I graduated from university during  a recession.  It wasn’t quite as deeply entrenched as the recent/current economic downturn but it was significant enough.  In those days 20 somethings didn’t attract much interest in [...]