Kristin van Ogtrop's Blog, page 278
January 12, 2012
#BeNiceWeek: Is Your Cell Phone a Menace to Society?
The last public place you want to hear your cell phone ringing is in a concert hall, where the finely tuned acoustics will amplify your mistake. But that's exactly what happened at a New [...]
January 11, 2012
The Nicest Place on the Internet
We're so excited by the response we've gotten from all of you regarding our Be Nice on the Internet Week, so we wanted to share a great site that one of our Facebook fans [...]
Should Petite Women Diet Differently?
In a recently published book called The Petite Advantage Diet, author Jim Karas, a Chicago-based lifestyle expert, claims that if you're under 5'4″ (which pretty much aligns with the height of the average American woman) [...]
Gail Simmons on Handling Negative Responses Online
"During the first season of Top Chef, I was horrified when I read the blogs and online forums about our show—forget what people said about the show content itself, it was the personal attacks [...]
Kindness Online Starts With You (and We're Here to Help)
Have you ever had someone write something horrible online that was to you, for you, or about you? You know, the sort of thing that most people (either out of a sense of politeness [...]
Can u Read ths txt? do u want 2?
I got a strange text from my friend Rahel the other morning, just as Real Simple's Be Nice on the Internet Week was getting underway. She wrote: "What or rather WHO is Scruttie?" The [...]
The February Book Poll Is Now Open
Hi, Bookies: My niece and nephew each got a sled under the Christmas tree this year—not of the Radio Flyer sort that I had when I was a kid, but slick molded-plastic numbers with [...]
Breakfast To Go
I thought this was a really sweet idea from Southern Weddings if you're hosting a morning or "breakfast event." Pass out yogurt to your guests in miniature weck jars with fruit and yogurt to [...]
January 10, 2012
#BeNiceWeek: To Tweet or Not to Tweet?
How to behave politely on Twitter is one question Hamlet did not have to face. In retrospect, the prince of Denmark got off easy, because the only sticky social situations he had to navigate were [...]
January 9, 2012
Create a Home Inventory with iKeepm
We all know that keeping a home inventory is important, but that it's also incredibly difficult to get started. Thankfully, there's a new website that makes it easy to catalog your belongings. iKeepm is a [...]
