Lately, so many brands have included blogger partnerships for their social media and advertising campaigns. I feel it is so much more targeted than a lot of traditional media and the return can be a lot better and more measurable as well. I love that a lot of companies are going that direction, but …
Continue Reading about PR pitches in my inbox: rarely good, mostly bad and ugly
Today, Sandier Pastures dot com turns 5. Though I started blogging earlier, I launched this dot com on September 1, 2007. This is my 1,870th post. Five years blogging had been a wonderful experience and this blog has definitely evolved from being an online diary for friends and family back home …
Continue Reading about 5th Blogiversary and launch of #blogtalk
Last week when work resumed after 4 days of holidays due to Eid Al Fitr, the celebrations after Ramadan, I was so ready to pick up what's left of my semi-ignored blog and finally write something. Baby Ben had fever all throughout the time I was at home sending us worried to the hospital at 2am. He …
Continue Reading about Bluehost deactivated my account (again)
Ramadan and the Eid holidays are over, it's back to the daily grind. That time when I look at my watch at 3pm and say (or sigh): "Haaaa, if it was still Ramadan, work would have been over at this time." but oh well, post-Ramadan, work timings are back until 6pm. We did nothing exciting in my 4 …
If you've been reading this blog for quite a while now, you'll see that I have been doing product reviews in the past including a baby carrier (product provided by company), a smartphone (product provided by company), a cool kitchen gadget (product I won from a contest), a netbook (product I won …
Continue Reading about My stand (and rant) on product reviews
Last month, I was contacted by a magazine editor in the UK requesting me to answer a few questions related to blogging so they can feature it in their July issue of Seventy2Minutes magazine. Well, here's the electronic copy of the magazine, just keep flipping the page until you see my face (it's …
