For those who subscribe to Chief Family Officer via email, this is just a quick note to let you know that I’ve changed the delivery time of the daily email to four hours earlier. That means the daily email will now go out shortly after Morning Coffee is published.

My hope is that this change will help you snag deals faster, and prevent you from missing out on time-sensitive offers – especially with the holidays coming up. You can also catch more time-sensitive offers by following CFO on Facebook and Twitter.

Since I just made the change, I’m not quite sure how it will affect delivery of today’s posts. Please bear with me as Feedburner catches up!

And as always, thank you for reading Chief Family Officer!

I’ve been doing some stuff behind the scenes here at CFO, and wanted to bring you up to speed on some new features:

• Chief Family Officer is on Pinterest! Check out the CFO Pinterest page, and let me know what you’d like to see there. I’m trying to be selective about what I pin, so mostly you’ll see recipes, plus some how-to tips and activities for the kids.

 

• Facebook – Over on the CFO Facebook page, I continue to post updates on what you see here at CFO, as well as time-sensitive offers, deals, coupons, and Swag codes. I’ve also been known to share drugstore deals that I picked up, and updates on my cooking progress. If there’s anything else you’d find helpful over on Facebook, be sure to let me know.

 

• Gelson’s match ups – You may have already seen these here at CFO, but I’m now offering coupon match ups for upscale Los Angeles market Gelson’s. You can find them here, or by using the “Gelson’s” tab in the menu at the top of the homepage.

 

• Speaking of match ups – I’ve gotten several requests to shorten the match ups posts, and I try to remember to use the “more” html code so that the full post doesn’t show on the homepage. You have to click through to see the entire post, which makes for less scrolling when you visit CFO. However, if there’s a way to shorten just those posts for RSS and email readers, without truncating all of the other posts I publish, I can’t figure it out. Cutting those posts short in the RSS and email feeds would mean going to a partial feed for all of CFO, and I really don’t want to do that. So if anyone knows of a different solution, please share!

Some of the world’s biggest web sites are down today to protest a proposed U.S. law called SOPA – the Stop Online Piracy Act. The law is much broader than its name indicates, and would result in tremendous censorship and limitation of what is online. Blogs like Chief Family Officer (and much bigger ones like Wikipedia and Boing Boing) might well end up out of business because of SOPA. I’m not closing down CFO today (it’s Ralphs match ups day, after all), but please take a moment to let your legislators know of your opposition to this proposed law. You can learn more here.

I’ve been blogging for a long time now (over six years!), and I finally put together an e-book with all of the basics on how to play The Drugstore Game. I’m making it available to all subscribers – you’ll see the download link at the bottom of each post in your RSS aggregator or daily email from Chief Family Officer. You can subscribe by RSS here and by email here.

Over at the Chief Family Officer Facebook page, everyone who likes the page can access my Top 10 Tips for Playing The Drugstore Game. If you’re already a Facebook fan, you can see the tips under the “Welcome” tab.

It’s a lot of fun writing this blog, finding deals, sharing ideas, and hosting giveaways, and I just want to thank you for making it that way!