It's social media week which means the CyberMummy founders (me, Jen and Sian) are going to be very, very busy. What's social media week? It connects people, content, and conversation around emerging trends in social media. And it's global. We're going to be speaking at LBi and at a few other venues across London. …
Are you a British parent blogger? Please fill out this benchmark study; it is anonymous and will only take a few minutes. We’ll share the results when it’s done. Who knows maybe we’ll discover that the online middle class mum stereotype is all wrong. Or that you all bloggers are based in Birmingham. Regardless, this is …
What happens when you gather a group of 180 highly talented and influential women in a room together?*
Friends are made, advice is given, hugs and cupcakes are shared.
I'm still trying to digest yesterday — will write more about it later.
All I want to say is what is the obession with bacon and the Garofalo spaghetti was not meant to beat people with.
Below is the post I read during my welcome talk:
3 July 2010. 3am. I can't sleep. Too excited. I can't believe it is here. The starched white hotel sheets are bunched to the side; I've been twisting and turning all night. My body is tired, but my mind is alive.
Last year I wrote a post about mummy blogging just starting to take off in the the UK. I had just created British Mummy Bloggers and frankly I struggled to come up with a list of 100 UK parent bloggers.
Now there are 800+ British Mummy Bloggers members and my inbox is so full of PR pitches I've had to open a new account.
So what happened in year? Mummy bloggers are hot. No, we aren't all running temperatures with swine flu. We're a hot commodity. I spoke with one PR firm yesterday that said they are ditching celebs for the "reality" factor that mum bloggers carry. Now don't go quoting this out of context. What I mean is that right now mummy bloggers are trendy. Who knows how long the trend will last — but given what has happened across the pond, my money is on the longer term.
Not bad, actually. A bunch of us got together this weekend at the London Zoo. It rained. It rained really hard. It was cold. But the atmosphere inside was buzzing and we had a fab time. It was nice to meet so many online personalities. We really are an eclectic group. …
A few mummy bloggers (me, Alpha Mummy, Potty Mummy, NixdMinx, and Karen from The Rubbish Diet) will be chatting today about our take on David Cameron's appearance on Mumsnet. So if you have a few spare minutes before school pickup, and want to add your two cents, head on over the Times' Alpha Mummy blog and let 'er rip. …