I was brows­ing the web today for a smart and fun present for a good friend of mine who just had her first baby. You know the sit­u­a­tion: it has to be prac­ti­cal, fun, orig­i­nal, use­ful, cool… and cost some­where around max 25 euros (since MANY friends tend to have kids this year). Via the great Dutch web­plat­form Trotse Moed­ers (‘Proud Moth­ers’), man­aged very well by a newly found IRL friend of mine, I stum­bled upon some great hand-made Nappy Wal­lets from the Aussie Mum-invented brand ‘Belly Bumps To Baby Hugs’- and thought — hey! This is a winner!

The Nappy Wal­let will hold (sur­prise..!) those nap­pies any new mother sim­ply needs to bring as soon as she leaves the house, plus all the other essen­tials: wipes, small tube of nappy rash cream and other small items that are use­ful when one is out and about. And has it has small pieces of rib­bon at the bottom,one to attach the keys to and the other to attach a dummy to. Fin­ished off with a handy strap, so it can be hung on the stroller.

Handy to just grab and go — and makes that big, bulky, heavy dia­per bag, that I used to lounge around, history!

As I’m sure my friend has bet­ter things to do right now, with a 2 day old baby in her arms, than read my blog, I am pretty sure it will still be a sur­prise when she unwraps it. But I’ll surely ask for a review again a few months’ down the line, when the Nappy Wal­let hope­fully has come to good use!

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Today, I met Navah who runs Tag-On; a com­mu­ni­ca­tion con­sul­tancy that devel­ops prac­ti­cal, hands-on Social Media Strate­gies for brands and com­pa­nies. We were sit­ting next to each other the blogger’s group that meets up every two weeks at the busi­ness cen­tre where I am based, the Women’s Busi­ness Ini­tia­tive in The Hague: a great way to get some dis­ci­pline in the blog­ging, share best prac­tices and — get blogging!

But most impor­tantly, it gen­er­ates real-life encoun­ters, like this one. Nor­mally, I fea­ture Mumpre­neurs who have invented a prod­uct, but this time, I make way for Navah.

Navah is a recent Mumpre­neur who has a three-year old daugther and started her busi­ness this year. Her pas­sion is to share the insight that

“no mat­ter what busi­ness you are work­ing in, there is always a way you can ben­e­fit from social media!” 

Her blog is a stream of good tips and links to use­ful resources, such as her lat­est post which is a con­cise descrip­tion of how Facebook’s new pri­vacy con­trols work, illus­trated in a sim­ple screen capture.

Fol­low Navah on Twit­ter , check out her blog and Face­book page!

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