Behind The Scenes Of Inspiration Bit
I’m not sure if others experience the same but with me it’s often either nothing or everything. There’s rarely a happy medium between having too many client projects or work at the same time and wondering if my email is working, how come I haven’t heard from anyone for quite awhile.

But even outside of work I encounter the same dilemma: either our phone is silent for days or ringing off the hook all day; either nobody is visiting us for weeks or our doors don’t close from everyday guests.

I’ve been interviewed only once before for a group interview in IT Manager’s journal on FOSS consulting. When all of sudden last week I was interviewed twice for two different blogs.

Another side of Universe

First I was approached by Jen Duguay, the founder of Tazzu - a very popular Vancouver Business, Technology, and Research Networking Community Forum - to be featured in Tazzu blog’s Member’s Spotlight. So if you want to find out a little bit more about me, my work, my family and finally see a bigger picture of me than the one on my about page, head over to VG Universe - Vivien’s world! article on Tazzu blog.

Amazing Bit

When I read David Peralty’s call over at Blogging Pro for unknown Amazing Bloggers, I sent an email to him more out of curiosity to see whether my blog gets any notice. To my surprise I got an email back from David, notifying that he’ll be profiling me in his series and asked me a few interview questions. Today I was astonished to learn that I’m his first feature on Amazing Blogger: Vivien of Inspiration Bit.

So here you go - two more peaks behind the scenes of Inspiration Bit :-)

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5 Insightful Bits in response to “Behind The Scenes Of Inspiration Bit”

  1. Joey

    Thanks for the update on Vivien’s world. First thing I noticed about the picture was the tourquois (sp). Somehow I had managed to never visit your design website, but now I have.

    July 2nd, 2007 at 2:02 pm

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  2. Aaron :: miLienzo.com

    Life’s a bit like buses really… you can wait around for ages for one and then two come along at once.

    Congrats on the interviews.

    July 2nd, 2007 at 3:21 pm

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  3. LaurenMarie

    Wonderful! I’m glad you linked to those articles. You are one beautiful lady, inside and out! :D

    July 3rd, 2007 at 11:17 am

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  4. Vivien

    haha, Joey, see - I wasn’t lying about my obsession with turquoise :-)

    Thanks, Aaron. You got it absolutely right with the bus metaphor.

    oh, Lauren, it’s very nice of you to say so - thank you :-)

    July 3rd, 2007 at 11:32 am

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  5. Simonne

    Congratulations, Vivien, both interviews are great. I was happy to read more about you, and I think that picture of yours is wonderful. Well done!

    July 4th, 2007 at 8:56 am

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Hi, I'm Vivien. Thanks for visiting my Inspiration Bit. I often find myself scouring the internet looking for either answers to many questions I have or websites that inspire me, sites that I can learn from. On what topics you might ask — any topics that interest me, anything from web design to typography and art, from blogging to entrepreneurship, from programming to open source.
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When I'm not blogging, I design web sites, teach, play with my daughter and try to balance family, work, friends and a somewhat active social life on