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A Day in the Life

Skype can help friends and family stay in touch, but it’s also a great business tool. Jenny and I use it for bloggy business quite often – communicating with each other, participating in group chats, or making conference calls. I’ve even participated in an job interview over Skype. Oh, and there was that time I Skyped with Kelly Ripa.

Skype is always on, so no matter what time of day we need to get our work done, it’s available.

There’s something about being face-to-face, even virtually, that takes conversation and connection to the next level. You can tell more about a person and form closer connections when you can actually see him or her.

It’s the one thing from Back to the Future II that came true.

How do you stay connected? Comment in the discussion box below for a chance to win gift cards
and other fun prizes!

It’s time to say more and stay human. It’s time for Skype.

Disclosure: Compensation was provided by Skype via Glam Media.  The opinions expressed
herein are those of the author and are not indicative of the opinions or positions of Skype.

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Tide Coldwater “Cool Off” Twitter Party – Tonight!

A few weeks ago we shared with you this awesome graphic – can you imagine what a huge energy savings would be had if everyone in our fair city of Dayton, Ohio washed their clothes in cold water using Tide Coldwater?

 

Tide Coldwater wants to keep the Cool Off fun and energy savings going! Even though our Cool Off party is over, you can still party with Tide Coldwater tonight at 9 pm EST!  The “Cool Off” Twitter party is hosted by Mom Trends and Savvy Sassy Moms and they’ll be chatting about ways to stay cool and cool fashion this summer. They’ll have lots of fashionable prizes to give away too, so make sure and join in the fun Wednesday at 9 on Twitter. Just use the hashtag #TideCoolOff.  Join in tonight for cool off fun and prizes!

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We are being compensated for our role in the Tide Coldwater campaign.  All opinions about the product are our own.

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Cool off with Tide Coldwater

Y’all know how Jenny and I feel about Tide. If this is your first visit to this Mommin’ It Up you don’t, you can read about it here, here, and here. Oh, and here, here, here, here, here, or here. Ok, I will stop now.

Needless to say, Tide is one of our favorite companies to work with because their PR people are fab we believe in the product and we use the product ourselves. (And also their PR people are lovely.) Ever since we first started learning more about the science behind Tide way back at BlogHer ’09 (the conference when I got stuck in an elevator), we’ve been totally brand loyal.

In particular, we love Tide Coldwater. I know that since learning about how much energy can be saved by washing in cold water (and finding out how well Tide Coldwater actually works), our family hasn’t used anything else. It’s such an easy, simple thing to do – but it can have such an impact on the world.

Think I’m exaggerating?

Take a look at this.

Isn’t that amazing?

The first two lines of that image have some pretty incredible stats, but read it again from the third line on. We may not be able to get every household in Dayton (or anywhere else) to wash with cold water, but we can definitely make sure our household does – and what an impact that has.

And seriously, it works just as well as regular Tide. Which works much better than anything else. It’s a win-win.

This summer we’re going to keep encouraging you to Cool Off with Tide Coldwater. Jump on in!

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