Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Professional Moms for Hire

I came across this great placement agency today, Mom-entum. It is a professional agency located in the DC, Virginia area that matches up professional Mothers who want to remain full-time mothers that also have professional degrees and work experience with professional organizations that want to hire real talent on a contract basis at a discounted rate in exchange for giving up a little control over work hours and working geographies.

The introduction to Mom-entum couldn't come at a better time. I am looking to hire a contract writer who can also be a PR professional for Clearwater Analytics.

Interestly, I let Jennifer, the Director of Mom-entum know in my blog comment that she ought to grow the company by "virtually" moving out West. I know of great Women who have chosen to be full-time Moms and are the Professional talent she is looking for.

Who knows, perhaps I'll be a franchisee. ;-)


Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Awesome Firefox Add-Ins

I use Firefox and recommend it - it is a killer browser and the add-in functionality is what makes it so great. There are a lot of developers out there doing some great work which allow me to customize the browser in more ways than I would consider and the "reviews" and "download" numbers show users like me what peers think of those add-ins. It is a very smart way for the people at Firefox to enable users to choose the "best" features for the browser.

These are my current favorites:

  1. ScribeFire makes it very easy to publish to my blog (I'm using it now)
  2. Colorzilla makes it super simple to grab screen colors. I'm doing lots of html emails with simple fonts and colors.
  3. MeasureIt makes it simple for me to measure screen elements.
  4. Firebug lets me inspect the css and html attributes of a page very quickly.
  5. Foxmarks is a bookmarking tool that synchronizes my bookmarks across multiple computers.
My one wish list - I want an add-in that helps me organize pages viewed. I never delete my history and am browsing pages that I can't seem to find again days later. I haven't seen this add-in yet. Have you?