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Why I'm supporting #Febusave
Sound finances give women true freedom of choice, it is the key to giving women options in life. When @fibendall approached me about supporting the ANZ Bank's Febusave campaign I was interested because I have first hand experience of the challenges raised by poor money management skills. I
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Savings and managing credit - a hard lesson to learn #febusave
We do not often share stories about our personal finances (except perhaps to boast of some great success?) but here are some hard won lessons I have learned. My parents were not great savers, subsisting from pay to pay in the way that many workers do. Thus I did not
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Just got my #Febusave blog ambassador badge
Getting women to think about their finances, to plan and save more is important. The better control we have over our finances the more choices we have in life. Why not click the badge below and join us for Febusave?
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It's Caturday & we might as well stay in bed!
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Sometimes on Caturday you just need to ...
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Dirty little secret - women and money #febusave
Women share amazing amounts of information with each other - about relationships, family, sex, fashion, friends - often in quite intimate detail. But one of our remaining taboo areas is money. I can hardly recall any conversations with girlfriends about money and its management. Recently I was horrified to discover
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5 reasons crowdsourcing is stupid
Crowdsourcing is very trendy these days and is touted as the answer to many of the ills of poor design and the need to reduce costs. In these cash strapped days any way to make innovation better-cheaper-faster is extremely desirable. But crowdsourcing is just one of the many tools we
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Yeah yeah! everyone is the king of some jungle on Caturday
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Theme for 2010: reinvention and reinvigoration
Each year, instead of making new year resolutions, I pick a theme for the year. That way when I get sidetracked (as often happens) I can simply return to the theme. Also with a theme there are often many different things I can do to support it. For 2009 my
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Talk about barriers to entry!
A while back I got an invitation to join a new social network 434U & was amazed at the barriers to entry & the onerous rules for participation. It's a new invitation only social network - I do wish them luck. But for me it makes me go
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Twitter 2009 retrospective
For me 2009 goes down as the year other people discovered Twitter. It went from a small and fairly intimate place to hangout to a busy bustling intersection of information, commerce and conversations. It felt almost like moving from a small town to a big and somewhat impersonal city. Some