This week we’re celebrating all things CyberMummy so it really seems only fitting to throw the spotlight on the individuals behind it’s creation. They’ve been blogging for years, changing the blogosphere in the process and have managed to orchestrate not one but soon-to-be two blogging conferences that have celebrated brilliance in blogging.
Back in 2009, following a Live Chat post-BlogHer ’09 on the then, British Mummy Bloggers network, the idea of having a conference of “our” own was put forth, seconded and thirded. A seed was planted and Jennifer Howze, Sian To and Susanna Scott decided to make that seed grow into something amazing; the first blogging conference of it’s kind in the UK. Through hours of hard work, meetings upon meetings, train journeys, coffees and probably a few grey hairs, CyberMummy 2010 was born.
200 bloggers attended CyberMummy 2010. The good vibes and boost in morale was palatable in the weeks following CyberMummy. Bloggers who had been unable to attend began saving for the next year. Bloggers who had attended gushed about the knowledge they had gained, the friends they had made and the networking they had achieved (and the wine some of them may or may not have drunk). CyberMummy 2010 was a feel-good event; CyberMummy 2011 stands to take that feel-good vibe to the next level. 400 bloggers will be learning, laughing and listening while amazing speakers, generous sponsors and loads of volunteers strive to make this year’s CyberMummy even better than before.
So, let’s give some mahoosive blogger love to the amazing CyberMummy founders: Jennifer Howze who blogs at Jenography; Susanna Scott who can be found at A Modern Mother and Sian To who is Mummy Tips. They may have been around the BritMums scene for some time now but they are more than worthy of being a regular read on your rota. And while we’re here, how about a standing ovation for the immense amount of work that these tireless bloggers have done for CyberMummy11?? **waits for the applause to die down** Thank you ladies, you most definitely rock.
Your 10 (actually 11) must-reads for this week are the bloggers who will be providing the moving and entertaining posts at the CyberMummy Crowdsourced Keynotes:
- Coffee Lady at The Coffee Lady
- Emily at More Than Just A Mother
- Emily at Babyrambles
- Fi at Childcare is Fun!
- Hannah at Muddling Along Mummy
- Jacqui at Mummy’s Little Monkey
- Jane at Northern Mummy with Southern Children
- Kate at Kate Takes 5
- Nickie at I am Typecast
- Pippa at A Mother’s Ramblings
- Catherine at Baby Genie
Keep counting down! Only 9 more sleeps after all!
About Karin Joyce
Karin Joyce is the creator of the popular Cafe Bebe blog and the social media maven of BritMums. Look for her on @cafebebe on Twitter and on this blog every week with Blog Prompts, Blogger of the Week and much more. In addition to Cafe Bebe, Karin also blogs at Mummy 365 where she waxes melodic about being a Mummy 365 days a year. Mummies never get a day off, do they?
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Thanks for the mention, am very excited (squeeeee) and very nervous but have been promised ‘special water’ will be behind the lectern! Feeling very honoured to be in such good company!
Hi,
The apostrophe in it’s in the first sentence of this post (This week we’re celebrating all things CyberMummy so it really seems only fitting to throw the spotlight on the individuals behind it’s creation.) is incorrect. The possessive of it is its, without an apostrophe.
See:
http://esl.about.com/od/grammarintermediate/a/cm_its.htm
“Its is the possessive pronoun form. This form is used to express that “it” has a specific quality, or that something belongs to “it”.
Examples:
I found its taste to be superb!
Its color is deep red, almost Burgundy.
”