So a family in Canada has decided to keep their baby’s gender a secret from the wider world, with only the parents, the siblings and a few other people. Here’s the rationale from the mother that has inflamed experts and other observers: “We decided not to share Storm’s sex for now — a tribute to [...]
May, 2011
10 tips for writing your memoir
For many people blogging leads naturally to writing a memoir – it’s all about the Me (and we mean that in the best possible way). Sometimes putting your own life into a story is difficult. You have to showcase the drama and find the beginning, the middle, and the end even though your own life, [...]
Guest post: Handling a life change
Nina Grunfeld is the founder of Life Clubs (lifeclubs.com), weekly personal improvement workshops around the country. This week’s workshop is on how to understand and work with the changes in your life. Here, she guest blogs for us about changes that affect us as parents and bloggers. In around 500 BC, Heraclitus said ‘Nothing endures [...]
British Mum Bloggers Have Klout May Index
If you want to work with brands you need to know about Klout. Why? Because more and more brands are using their data to measure online influence. Klout are a social media analytics company that measures online influence using Twitter and Facebook data. They incorporate all sorts of stats, such as follower and following counts, retweets, list memberships, and influence of retweeters and mentioners. This [...]
Why do you blog? Potty Mummy @ThePottyDiaries
What is your Blog Name/Url? (Twitter ID & Facebook Fan Page URL) Blog: The Potty Diaries I also tweet as @thepottydiaries No Facebook since I’m essentially a luddite and can’t cope with yet another stream of electronic information – although not so long ago I said that about twitter, and well…
Blogger of the week #passiton
BritMumsBOW At BritMums we love to recognise brilliance in blogging. We try to, every week, highlight a blogger who is lighting the blogosphere up with their writing. We want to share the love as much as possible to build a strong community. This week we need to galvanise the blogging community behind one very special blogger and the amazing campaign that she is promoting.
Guest post: What every blogger needs to know about tax
Have you ever wondered if you need to tell the tax man about that massage the lovely PR person gave you as a thank you for participating in their campaign. Or if he should be privy to that vacuum cleaner you reviewed (and kept). Liz Jarvis from The Mum Blog shows us that tax doesn’t have [...]
Join the BritMums May blog hop!
BritMumsBlogHop Can you believe that May is nearly gone? Spring is sprung and Summer is sitting on our doorstep! We’re all looking forward to our last Spring Bank Holiday, starting to countdown to the end of school and planning our summer holidays. But wait! Before you get carried away with the boys of summer, let’s take this opportunity to have a final Spring BritMums Blog Hop!
Why do you blog? Heather @SAHMlovingit
Once again, more lovely insight behind the bloggers who write the blogs we love. This week we’re featuring Heather from SAHM Loving It. 1. What is your Blog Name/Url? (Twitter ID & Facebook Fan Page URL) SAHMlovingit (http://sahmlovingit.blogspot.com). My twitter ID is @SAHMlovingit. I don’t have a Facebook account 2. What is your name/alias? My [...]
Blogger of the week + 10 must-reads
BritMumsBOW Choosing the Blogger of the Week is never an easy task. The parent blogosphere is chock-a-block with talented writers, photographers, videographers and stories about poo (well, we are parents). Each week I look for someone who stands out a bit from the crowd; maybe someone who has written a post that has rippled around the blogosphere; maybe someone who’s picture is so gorgeous, everyone is talking about it; maybe someone who has just knocked our socks off with an amazing new video.
BritMums Live 2013
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Franglaise Mummy: Great post and a great reminder to switch off and ...
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Mrs Teepot: It has been really disappointing hasn't it. Glad...
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Actually Mummy...: I am beyond excited! Thank you so much for choosin...
