Kirstie Pelling author of The Family Adventure Project was also a novice tweeter once upon a time, she writes a hilarious account of her first Tweet up and then gives tips on how you can avoid the same dilemma This summer I have been invited to speak on travel blogging at BritMums Live; a two [...]
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Should restaurants ban “food stagrammers”?
What’s wrong with this picture? According to some, the fact that it was taken of my meal in a restaurant means it is an affront to proper dining. Lately there’s been a debate raging on the appropriateness of “foodstagramming” — taking pictures of your food and sharing them on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, G+ or other [...]

6 tips for keeping kids safe online
Mark Panay shares some valuable information and tips on how to make sure our children are safe online and by the time you get to the bottom you’ll be running to update all your passwords. Managing your children’s online experience is a challenge for most parents. A lot of the time parents feel ill [...]
Instagram clarifies T&Cs, but is it enough?
There was an uproar this week when Instagram announced new terms and conditions that seemed to give itself the ability to sell users’ photographs and use their user profiles and likenesses. Would the company be grabbing our pictures and using them against ads or — even worse — FOR ads, without compensating us or even [...]

6 tips to improve your Pinterest experience
After our successful Back to Blogging week where we all shared our Pinterest URLs we thought we need to work on our social media and once again the lovely Melitsa Avila from Play Activites has come up trumps yet again with some short and sweet tips on how to make Pinterest work for you. [...]

Coffee break Google+ hangout: Social media
BritMums held their second Coffee Break Google + hangout on Wednesday and after a few technical glitches the conversation really started flowing. We were talking about social media with Karin Joyce and Jen from BritMums and we were able to get some fantastic top tips from Maggy Woodley creator of Red Ted Art and [...]

Back to Blogging: Facebook Fan page day
Day 3 of Back to Blogging and we hope you’re settling in and having some fun. For latecomers, this week we are sharing our social media links to all of our accounts. We know that social media goes hand in hand with blogging and that it’s the perfect way to increase the readership of [...]

Back to Blogging: Twitter day
Day 2 of Back to Blogging how’s it going? Did you add your blog URL to yesterday’s Linky? I’ve made sure the Linky remains open for an entire month so there’s plenty of time to get connected. Twitter – getting to know you Today we are dedicating the BritMums blog to our Twitter accounts. If [...]

Guest post: Twitter warning to keep an eye out
North Essex Mummy is a new blogger on the scene and writes anonymously – for now at least. She is expecting and has a glorious tummy which she is very proud to display and blogs about her pregnancy and the decisions that go with expecting a baby. New to the scene sometimes there can be [...]

Should nasty tweets be criminal?
Should bad behaviour on social networking sites be criminal? That’s the discussion of the day after @Rileyy_69 messaged Tom Daley on Twitter, saying “you let your dad down i hope you know that” (Daley’s father died last year of a brain tumour). A 17-year-old boy was arrested and apologised for the message. Today many are [...]
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