How to Blog Like a Journalist
Blogging is a wonderful medium, but I am also a firm believer that we bloggers can elevate our work by taking the best of new media and the best of old media and combining it. It serves us well, and it serves our readers well. I spent 15 years as a newspaper reporter, and now [...]
Guy Kawasaki Interview on Newspapers at Alltop
I recently noticed that Alltop, a 2.0 magazine stand delivering feeds on a variety of topics such as moms and journalism, introduced pages for the L.A. Times and New York Times. As any of my regular readers know, my background is in newspapers and I have some rather strong opinions about the industry’s current state. [...]
The Newspaper as Specialty Publication
Tomorrow, I predict one of the best days in newspaper sales in several months. Despite all the stories of woe in the newspaper industry, don’t be surprised if you hit newspaper racks tomorrow to find them all sold out. How can that be in the midst of a recession and with an industry that is [...]
Social Networking Resolutions
Yes, New Year resolutions are lame. But the fact is, this time of year it’s just natural we reflect on changes we want to make and where we want to be in the coming year. So for all of us who do the whole social networking thing, I thought I would throw out some important [...]
We’re Going to Disney World
In two days, we hit the road to experience the holidays at Disney World. This was kind of an impromptu thing. It started with my previous post on the Mom Panel. I wrote about all the holiday happenings there for my Suite101 Family Adventures site. What really clinched it, for me, was when I heard [...]
Motrin’s Offensive Mom Ad is Proof Companies Must Hire Chief Mom Officers
Have you seen this ridiculous Motrin commercial? The one that says moms wear their babies because it’s in fashion, and to look like an “official mom.” The one that asks if baby wearing makes moms cry. Also be sure to watch the baby version, which claims moms secretly want to be committed. You know, for [...]
Independent Blogger Conference Greensboro
Hello. I am organizing the first half of the day of the Independent Blogger Conference in Greensboro (or whatever name you’d care to call it… I kind of like Blogger Fringe Fest, but clearly we aren’t that formal). Here is an agenda for the morning session. The afternoon session, being run by Dave Slusher, will [...]
Disney World 2.0 with the Moms Panel
There are so many organizations that are so far behind when it comes to social networking and web 2.0. It also seems to me a bit that the older and bigger the company, the more grumpy dudes in gray suits sit in board rooms shooting down ideas related to modern and social marketing. I was [...]
My Type-A Mom Interview at LuckyStartups.com
I was recently interviewed by the cool web site, Lucky Startups, about Type-A Mom. I really enjoyed it, and it provided me a chance to talk about why I created Type-A Mom and my mission there to, one day, be a site where any mom can make a decent living working from home, have more [...]
BlogHer Alternative Conference in Greensboro
Because I am, apparently, borderline psychotic, I have decided to co-host an alternative to the recently-cancelled BlogHer Greensboro Reach Out Tour. I just got word that everything is a go, so now I am in a frenzy lining up speakers (and I already have some very cool ones on board!). Please read below and contact [...]
