5 Ways to Screw Up Your Corporate Twitter Account

I get asked frequently for advice on how to Twitter as a business or an organization. There, right there, the approach is all wrong right from the beginning. Businesses and corporations don’t have random thoughts, or feelings, or friends. They don’t have faces. They don’t microblog. If you want to venture into the Twittersphere, you […]

BlogHer Pity Party Contest Do Over

I had an awful lot of fun with the BlogHer Pity Party Contest, and winner Amy Giampetroni of
Average Everyday Super Woman was thrilled to get her cool Moocards and BlogHer Reach Out Tour tickets. Then I got an email from her. She asked if she could possibly return the prize.
This is what she said:
I’ve […]

Call for Political Link Love Submissions

OK, so my last post was my Wednesday link love post. And here it is. Wednesday. And that’s supposed to be my next post. That troubles me.
That’s when I realized that perhaps it makes more sense to do the link love thing monthly, and to be more organized about it. Plus, I figured by posting […]

Wednesday Link Love - The Random Themeless Edition

Hello. Back by popular demand, I will continue to attempt to do a weekly Wednesday Link Love post. I actually will start going by a theme, but I just didn’t bother to think one up this week. Plus, I kind of enjoyed last week’s post with its wild mix of interesting posts.
If you have a […]

Wal-Mart Back to School List Response

With everything that went down last week in the whole Wal-Mart back to school list controversy, there is one thing that particularly impressed me (well, one outside the amazing support I got from fellow moms when I was criticized). The same day of my
Truth About Wal-Mart’s Back to School Lists post, I was contacted […]

Sweet, Sweet Wednesday Link Love

Since this site has gotten 20,000 page views since yesterday, I thought I would put my money where my mouth is with my recent
Blog Kharma post and start a link love tradition. There is absolutely no theme except that I posted on Twitter asking anyone who needed a little link love to let me […]

Back to School Shopping List Rebuttal

I had an extremely busy day today and I was running errands. I was trying to approve moderated comments all day long through my Tilt phone, but wasn’t able to post anything. Meanwhile, thousands of people were hitting the site when
boingboing picked up my
Truth About Wal-Mart Back to School Lists post, as did […]

My Quest for a Mom-Friendly Purse

I honestly couldn’t decide what to title this post: My Quest for a Mom-Friendly Purse or Ways the Buxton Bag Sucks. It was a toss-up, but I decided my judgment is currently clouded by my disappointment with the Buxton Bag, when the real issue is the lack of great purses for moms.
I have toddler twins […]

Truth About Wal-Mart Back to School Lists

My daughter is about to start kindergarten, so naturally we did some back to school shopping. Our state sales tax break weekend happened recently. When we noticed the local Wal-Mart had shopping lists not only specific to school and grade level, but to teacher, we were thrilled. We started tossing items in the cart to […]

Blog Kharma

I always find it a little interesting that some people are stingy. It seems to be a natural web inclination to be a tightwad with linking, or promoting others, or sending people to other sites (even *gasp* competing sites). Here is the thing that I’ve practiced, and it has not only allowed me to be […]

Job Hunting 2.0 - How One Mom Landed Her Dream Job on Twitter

If you have even taken the slightest peek and my blog or my tag cloud, you know there are a couple subjects that get me going. One is just how social networks - and my particular addition, Twitter - are transforming the way we do everything from making friends to getting the news to sharing […]

You’re Invited to the BlogHer Pity Party

Seeing how many of us mom bloggers are bummed about missing BlogHer (since I’ve gotten 30-some comments on the BlogHer 2008 Pity Party contest in, like, 24 hours’ time), I decided we needed a real party. So we’ll be having a BlogHer 2008 Pity Party chat. Here are the details:
Where:
MommyTalk.com
Hosts: KelbyCarr.com, TypeAMom.net and MommyTalk.com
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BlogHer 2008 Pity Party Contest

I am totally bummed. It’s like being a teenager. All my friends are going to a party, but I’ve been grounded. I am, of course, talking about BlogHer 2008. If you are a cool blogger who is a she, you’re supposed to be going to this conference. You’re almost entitled. What gives?
UPDATE: the contest winner […]

Homemade Cupcakes

Recently, we were at the mall and saw something I have a hard time resisting. A children’s cooking kit that was on sale for a fraction of its original price. So when my daughter started waving that cupcake baking and decorating kit in front of me at the store, I had to get it.
Even […]

Nightlife with Kids

Yes, you read that right. Nightlife. With Kids. It can happen.
My husband and I used to be all about nightlife. Then we had a kid. But we still did a lot. After all, we traveled for months living in Europe, so she saw a late night here or there. Then we had two more […]

Evolving and Devolving from Career Mom to Work at Home Mom

It’s been seven months since I made the leap. It was a leap that I’d longed to do for years, yet I felt panic-stricken about actually doing once the time had arrived. In December, I switched from a career mom to a work at home mom. This may not sound like a big deal. But […]