About Shannon
Photo Credit: The Awesome CL Buchanan www.clbuchananphotography.ca
Hi, I’m Shannon. I write around these here parts.
I’m a forty-something living in Ottawa. I have a daughter, A, and a husband, also known as The Husband. I have a dog named Beagle. We’re pretty literal around here.
I worked in high tech for many years. I worked in technical sales support, business analysis and project/engagement management at companies like JetForm, Adobe, Tomoye and Overlay.TV. Now, I’m a full time mom, blogger, writer, consultant and social media darling. I develop content and handle communications for BlissDom Conferences, which is crazy fun and totally amazing.
Here’s where I currently write or have written:
zchamu.com - my personal blog. Where you are!
Care2 Causes - where I write about current events and social issues.
The Bad Moms Club - where every day is a good day to be a Bad Mom.
Draft Day Suit - where I write about sports. Snarkily.
Have You Had That Baby Yet? - where I only wrote one word, but it still gets 5,000 hits a week.
ecochick.ca - where I write about environmentally friendly products available in Canada. This site is currently pretty quiet.
I also appear at conferences and seminars to talk about blogging and social media. Here’s where I’ve been:
I talked about Emerging Trends and Technology at the Women In Film Festival in Vancouver in 2009.
I discussed Blogging For Social Action, Community And Empowerment: The Beauty Of The Butterfly Effect at BlissDom Canada in Toronto in 2010.
I talked to people about What Happens When You Publicize Your Passion? at the Mom 2.0 Summit in New Orleans in 2011.
I also spoke about Earning Dividends On Your Blogging Investment at Social Capital in Ottawa in 2011.
I led a panel on The Revolution WILL Be Tweeted: Using Social Media For Social Good at BlissDom Canada 2011 in Toronto.
I co-host the Ottawa Brain Drain events with Andrea Tomkins, a sorta-monthly gathering to talk about trends in social media.
My Klout score as of October 2012 is 61. Does that mean I get 61 cookies?
Let’s talk. email me at zchamu at gmail dot com. Or if it’s BlissDom Biz, email me at shannon at blissdomevents dot com.
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I would love to talk to you some time. You sound like a most interesting person. Love you.
Good morning Shannon,
I hope you are well!
For most Canadian families, fall means getting back to routines. While most Canadians (82%) say keeping a routine is important to their family, half admit it’s hard to stick to one. And when routines are abandoned, healthy diets are often the first to go. In a recent survey, two in three (65%) Canadians agreed that they don’t eat as well as they should when they fall out of routine.
Lydia Knorr, mom of three, Registered Dietitian and Yoplait spokesperson, will be in Ottawa on Tuesday, September 18 to offer some expert tips to help families get back into the groove of a healthy routine.
More specifically, Lydia can share tips on maintaining a healthy routine such as:
-Eat breakfast everyday to keep energized and fuelled for the entire day
-Plan meals ahead by creating a weekly menu that makes shopping and nutrition a breeze
-Create a wall calendar with appointments, chores and extracurricular activities all consolidated in one space
If you would like to join us at Metropolitain Brasserie at 1:30 p.m. for a coffee and a quick bite to learn more about routines and healthy eating with Lydia, please contact me at (416)-934-8418 or [email protected]
Thanks,
Anita
My thanks for your blog and gift
Hello, Shannon!
My name is Varvara, recently I found your blog. There is such a lot of interesting and useful things! I would like to thank you for such useful publications and show our gratitude – to offer you and your baby to test our learning application – Kidsquare platform for iPad which is yet to be released in the App Store.
Having tested Kidsquare among the first, you will get unique material for the blog and can attract new readers. Our platform is unique – it combines educational games for children of preschool age and useful information for parents. Team from Russia, which is developing this application, considered advices that you wrote in your blog, which is why your participation is important to us.
I’m glad that I can do something agreeable and express our thanks to you for your wonderful blog!
Do you have iPad with which you can try Kidsquare? I and our team are interested to know if your children play the applications and if they do – which of them. We will try to make our gift to you maximally useful and quality.
KidSquare. Services both for kids and parents in one application
Hello!
KidSquare is mobile edutainment platform for preschoolers. KidSquare is educational games, useful information for parents and advanced learning management system. Getting to know KidSquare will not only let you to better manage your child’s progress but will also give you new fascinating material for the blog. Video about app: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIVrqXVZo34
If you would like to test the application by yourself send us your UDID (let me know if you don’t know how to get it - I’ll send you instructions).
Please also let me know if you would like us to publish your materials in our news digest. I will explain you how we do it.
We are always glad to help and answer your questions!