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  • Microsoft Infographic

    [Infographic] Travel, Tech Stats from Windows

    I love getting fun information from the Microsoft team. As a Windows Champion I am more than happy to share it. This travel infographic is right up my alley as I am always traveling somewhere it seems.

  • Caryn Bailey

    Moms Featured in National Walmart Ad

    Through a blogger program run through Collective Bias influential mom bloggers will be seen in a national Walmart ad that will be distributed to one million homes this week. The ad is a special booklet featuring Johnson & Johnson products. Two bloggers of the five who are featured in the national ad are Caryn Bailey of Rockin’ Mama and Amy Bellgardt of Mom Spark.

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    20 Women Designers Who Will Rock Your Blog

    I decided to crowdsource for some of the best women designers out there who provide blog migration and design services for bloggers. Please make sure to give these talented women your business if your blog needs a touch up.

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    Wide Selection of Gifts for Moms

    Celebrate Moms in style at BlissLiving.com with unique mothers jewelry. Pamper moms with BlissLiving.com’s original line of spa gift baskets that has everything a hard working mom needs to refresh and recharge! For new moms with new borns and young children choose from over 1,000 designer diaper bags big and small they have it all.

  • ONE trip to Ghana

    ONE Moms, Dad Document Vaccine Rollout in Ghana

    ONE, the anti-poverty advocacy organization (disclosure: I am a ONE Mom) along with the GAVI Alliance have invited bloggers to Ghana to document the rollout of the two vaccines.

Blog Tips

Mom Bloggers and Brand

The Number One Way to Craft Your Brand

I read a lot of mom blogs. It’s inevitable. Owning a site where thousands of mom bloggers converge gives me a keen look at the digital mom space and who’s in it. Most mom bloggers, I’ve noticed, really aren’t blogging for the cold hard cash. Rather, they are newer bloggers with small children who might review products on occasion, but who mainly tell stories about their everyday lives. Many of these blogs remind me of how the mom blogging community was seven years ago when all we did was talk about our families and daily lives.

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Can You Cut Through the Noise?

There are about four million mom bloggers according to Nielsen. That’s a lot of moms who blog. Do you know how to cut through the noise or do you get lost in the sea of voices?

Flexing Your Blogging Muscles

Flexing Your Blogging Muscles

Over the past three days I have been challenging myself though running. I am not a natural runner, mind you. I have simply worked on being able to sustain a run longer than a block or two and for some reason this past weekend something “clicked”. I was able to run longer than I ever have probably in my entire life. Running for an extended period of time, I’ve discovered, gives you a lot of free time to think. I haven’t yet learned the art of zen running where I can clear my mind while pounding the pavement. Oh, no. My mind was rambling with all manner of things, especially blogging. Blogging is similar to…

Mom Blog Magazine - Best of the Week

[Audio] Best of the Week – 3/16

If you missed any of the articles on Mom Blog magazine, take a listen to some of my picks of the week. Find them at http://www.momblogmagazine.com/index/portfolio. listen to ‘This Week at Mom Blog Magazine – 3/16’ on Audioboo (function() { var po = document.createElement(“script”); po.type = “text/javascript”; po.async = true; po.src = “http://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/assets/embed.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); advertisementJennifer JamesJennifer James is the founder and editor of Mom Blog magazine and the Mom Bloggers Club Network, a global social network of over 18,000 mom bloggers ranging from US mom bloggers and vloggers to gamer moms and UK mummy bloggers. Jennifer’s work has been cited on Read Write Web, Radian 6, Forbes.com and CNN…

Being free

Site Launches With 400,000 Free Stock Photos

I cannot begin to tell you how much money I have spent on stock photography since I began building web sites nine years ago. You would probably fall out of your chair if you knew how much I shell out annually to make my posts pretty. Today I am happy to report that a new site, StockFreeImages, has launched with 400,000 free stock photos.

Why Great Content Is Imperative to Any Blog

Why Great Content is Imperative to Any Blog

Today I was on my regular mentoring call and was asked if I have any advice about writing consistent content in the midst of a busy day. We have all struggled with this to be sure.

Attribution

The New Codes for Attribution

In my experience the mom blogging community has been very fair as far as attribution goes. Moms are heavy linkers! But that is not always the case in every blogging niche. And even with best intentions we can sometimes forget to properly attribute the source of information we have read, heard about, saw on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and the list goes on and on.

How to be a Confident Blogger

How to Be a Confident Blogger

Want to know the lessons I’ve learned over the past eight years? Here are some I’ve learned myself as well as general observations I have learned from the vast community of bloggers.

Has Blogging Become a Chore

Has Blogging Become a Chore?

Have you ever looked at your blog’s dashboard and whimpered to yourself, “Oh, I cannot in any way, shape, or form write a blog post today?”

Tech News & Notes

Microsoft Infographic

[Infographic] Travel, Tech Stats from Windows

I love getting fun information from the Microsoft team. As a Windows Champion I am more than happy to share it. This travel infographic is right up my alley as I am always traveling somewhere it seems.

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20 Women Designers Who Will Rock Your Blog

I decided to crowdsource for some of the best women designers out there who provide blog migration and design services for bloggers. Please make sure to give these talented women your business if your blog needs a touch up.

Mothers Day Tech Gifts

Perfect Tech Gifts for Mother’s Day

Do you know when Mother’s Day is? It’s May 13 which means you still have plenty of time to shop for amazing Mother’s Day gifts. If they’re tech gifts, it’s even better.

GirlsAroundMe

Think Twice Before Posting Location Data

I just read about the “Girls Around Me” app where it grabs your public Foursquare check-in data and then links your data to your Facebook page. Scary stuff!

Evi

New Voice Recognition App

When the iPhone 5 hit the market everyone raved about Siri (Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface), Apple’s voice recognition software. Now there is a voice recognition app everyone can use. Called Evi, the app is free on Android devices and costs $.99 in the iTunes store. Evi is available for phones, iPads, and tablets.

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Memolane, TimeHop Look Back One Year Ago

I often wax nostalgic about what I was doing a year ago today by simply checking my email. I mentioned in January that TimeHop had recently launched a service where you can receive daily email updates with your social media activity from one year ago today.

#SedonaSony

Sony Hosts Bloggers in Sedona

Tech, mom, and photo bloggers are in Arizona on a media junket this week courtesy of Sony. Using the hashtag #sedonasony, bloggers are learning tips and tricks about Sony’s cameras including the NEX-7 and NEX C-3 as well as getting a hands-on look at the Sony Tablet S and e-readers.

Attribution

The New Codes for Attribution

In my experience the mom blogging community has been very fair as far as attribution goes. Moms are heavy linkers! But that is not always the case in every blogging niche. And even with best intentions we can sometimes forget to properly attribute the source of information we have read, heard about, saw on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and the list goes on and on.

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CNN In Talks to Acquire Mashable

What happens at South By Southwest reaches those in Austin and simultaneouly spreads like lighting around the world,

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Instagram: 27 Million Users, Android Version

It’s South By Southwest time and you know what that means: major tech announcements. Instagram, self described as “fast, beautiful photo sharing for your iPhone”, announced that it has garnered 27 million users nearly doubling its userbase from 15 million last reported in December.