Two geeky girls’ guide to the first year of motherhood.
From the category archives:
Having just returned from a 4-day trip to Chicago where I attended the BlogHer ’09 conference, an annual coming-together of women who blog, I want to sort my experiences into three categories: Things That Exceeded My Expectations, Things That Met my Expectations, and Things That Underwhelmed Me. Here goes:
Things That Exceeded My Expectations
- My Attitude. [...]
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After an exciting travel day, we arrived at BlogHer in time for the wrap up of our first party. The word for today is “intense“. I couldn’t stop using it.
Even getting here was intense. All of Oakland Airport was calmly evacuated after we had gone through the security checkpoint. Alarm sirens and flashing lights [...]
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I love me some Project Runway and I love the host, Tim Gunn. In fact, reflecting on this reminds me that I haven’t used his catch phrase, “Make it work!” nearly enough.
Although I am too lazy to select all of my outfits for a conference/vacation in advance, photograph them, upload them to the web, [...]
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If you have never heard of this book, well, welcome to the blogosphere. You must be new here.
The multi-talented Rita Arens, who blogs at Surrender Dorothy, has edited an anthology of writings from other parent bloggers. And she did a damn good job.
After reading Sleep is for the Weak, I thought, You know, I don’t [...]
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Dear friends,
We Rookie Moms try not to blog about blogging because we believe that our readers are more likely to be fellow mamas, not fellow bloggers, but since there are definitely a handful of savvy bloggers reading our site, I want to address an issue some of us may be facing this week. This [...]
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Photo by betsythedevine.
We made these shirts on Zazzle and wore them at Blogher. We were like make-up free booth babes without a booth.
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The panelists are:
Sarah Gilbert and Asha Dornfest of UrbanMamas.com
Sheena (age 15) and Iris (Age 16) of SmashCast.org.
This is a summer honors program for math and science for high school students. More info on the program at: lpfi.org/education/smash.shtml
Mandy Moore from knitting blog yarnageddon
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Can we leverage blogging to make a living?
The panel is Heather Armstrong, Arieanna Foley. Rachelle Bowden is the moderator.
From Here to Autonomy
Originally uploaded by whitneybee.
Talking about what it takes to leverage blogging into a money-making endeavor.
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Making money from your blog was covered by Jennifer Slegg.
As Jen said, a lot of people want to know, “How can I make money from my blog?”
Overview
+ Why it can be difficult to monetize blogs
– Ad Choices
– Contextual
– Affiliate
– RSS
+ Best Practices for monetizing from affiliate links
+ Placement
+ General discussion topics
+ Blog reviews for ad [...]
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At Blogher today, Elise Bauer talked traffic. Here are my notes.
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This is where I’ll be liveblogging a few sessions for the BlogHer conference on July 28 and 29.
On Day 1, topics will be Audience Building and $$$ Generation.
On Day 2, you can read about the workshops that are titled “From Here to Autonomy” and “Is Your Blog a Gallery or a Canvas?”
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The Rookie Mom's Handbook: 250 Activities to Do with (and Without!) Your Baby
