Juan Tornoe

Is Dora the Explorer Turning into a Bratz Kid?

You be the judge:

  

Who's "maturing" next? Barney!?!?

Mamboing with the Walmart Moms

Saturday Evening I was invited by my friends at Mercury Mambo to a mixer they threw for Walmart's 11Moms. The guys from Bentonville, AR recruited these female bloggers, now actually up to 22 and growing, to share their valuable tips and idea on how to stretch their dollars. All but two of them were in Austin for this year's SXSW Interactive conference, courtesy of Walmart, and Mercury Mambo decided to show them some good ol' Texan hospitality. The two missing, by the way, one is about to give birth to her new baby at any moment, the other just had had hers :-)

I tell you, the Mambos showed the Moms a mighty fine Latino Texas time! Besides the Margaritas and great Mexican beer, there was Mambo-made, finger-licking good, Tex-Mex cuisine, and extremely cool screen printed t-shirts with in-house developed designs (I'm wearing mine right now!).

The Moms were awesome! Down to earth, high-tech, business-savvy, very – and I mean – very knowledgeable ladies. Had a blast chatting with them about blogging, Walmart, kids, and each of their areas of expertise. Walmart did an exceptional job at recruiting them. One thing I really apprecited about the whole program is that the Moms are not pushing Walmart products, they are sharing honest, straightforward advice on dollar-stretching issues; if that means putting down a product being sold in Walmart, so be it. Now THAT, is strong, reliable advice.

Their “11 Moms” stickers were awesome as well... great move!