What do skateboard wheels, a crack pipe, tea lights, plastic cutlery, and Band-Aids have in common? They were collected by us Hot Tomalians at English Bay Beach as part of the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup on Sept 15. Aaah, I know… the things we get up to! This is the second year in a row Hot [...]
Author Archives: Alison Stringham
2010.09.22 – 10:21 pm
Hot Tomalians Get Off Our Butts and Clean Up 1,000 Cigarette Butts
So we didn’t snag a beach location for our Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, held Sept 18–26 this year, but the East Vancouver park we went to was very close to the shoreline — and close to our office. Oxford Park evoked no images of posh Oxford, England; it’s just a small grassy area with a [...]
2010.08.01 – 2:17 pm
LIKEaBIKE: Product Innovation at its Finest
About a year ago, we posted a blog article called “Is it a bird? Is it a plane? … No, it’s a 2-year-old on a Kiddimoto”. The article covers the innovative approach that a small family business in Roetgen, Germany took to building children’s bikes with the introduction of LIKEaBIKE. Their theory was that by [...]
2007.12.27 – 11:54 pm
Ugly Sweater Christmas Party
It started with an invitation, emailed to colleagues and clients, about Hot Tomali’s Christmas party, held in our newly expanded office on December 13, 2007. It was an ugly Christmas sweater party, and we had scored some awesome sweaters at Value Village to distribute to those unfortunate souls who were lacking in the ugly sweater [...]
2007.12.27 – 11:40 pm
The Value of a Smile at Christmas
I am passionate about words and quotes, and each day I email the Hot Tomali staff a “Quote of the Day”. Right before Christmas I decided to send this one. You can find it in Dale Carnegie’s book How to Win Friends & Influence People, which I am currently reading. Although it was written 70 [...]
2007.07.12 – 7:07 am
Happy 9th Birthday Hot Tomali!
Canada Day, July 1, marked Hot Tomali’s 9th birthday. Today we finally got off our butts and toasted this special occasion. Hot Tomali has certainly come a long way since those early days when it was just Tom & Ali. From left to right: Dan, Guy, Jill, Debbie, Sabrina, Carly, Thomas, and Alison. Share and [...]
