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Guest post: Supporting Piggy Bank Kids

We were delighted to have Piggy Bank Kids attend BritMums Live!, where bloggers were able to paint a pig in support of the work they do and where founder Sarah Brown spoke to bloggers about the work she’s doing. Dorky Mum chatted with Piggy Bank Kids and was so inspired that she’s put together this [...]

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How To Use Pinterest

The topic of how bloggers use Pinterest packed a room at BritMums Live this year. Melitsa Avila (@playactivities) led the discussion and now she’s created a fantastic, easy-to-follow how-to video. It’s essential viewing if you’re new to Pinterest, and a great review of what you should be doing if you’re more experienced on the platform. [...]

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online negativity

Twitter Terriers, Facebook Furies and Blog Bummers

I’m just back from Britmums Live, still buzzing from the noise, people and all the stuff I learnt! I was asked to sit on the panel at the discussion den on ‘online negativity, because I’ve written a lot about Bullying in the past and at the beginning of the year I wrote about how Mums should try standing in each [...]

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Brit Mums Live Google + Hangouts: How we use Pinterest

Have you found Pinterest yet? It’s really addictive, it’s like an online scrapbook and great for making mood boards or collecting all your ideas in one place rather than pages torn out of magazines. The Blogger’s Studio at Brit Mums Live – How We Use Pinterest was a very popular one with people standing right [...]

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Brit Mums Live Google + hangouts – The Path to getting published

The second of our Google + hangout series taken after the workshops at Brit Mums Live, this time it’s Tony Hargis – Expat Mum, Erin Niumata – Cross The Pond, Cari Rosen – The Secret Diary …of a Secret Diary and Kate Morris – Writing and Moaning speaking of their own route to getting their [...]

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Brit Mums Live Google + hangouts: Crossing the Chasm

There are a lot of us who are sitting back and watching the Google + social network take form in front of us not knowing exactly what we are supposed to be doing with it, luckily there was a Google + stand at Brit Mums Live with some fabulous experts ready and willing to get [...]

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My Best Post of The Week

It’s Brit Mums Live! This annual event is the perfect place to learn, to be inspired and to meet the people you’ve been chatting online with. Over 450 bloggers congregate under one roof and have a scream together, last night the first BiBs were held and what a ball we all had! Over the next [...]

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My Best Post of the Week #MBPW

The countdown to Brit Mums Live! is really underway this week and I am really looking forward to it, a while back I took part in Clare’s The Ultimate BritMums Live interview so if you want a little more info on me head over and read. Carly from Stepford Wifey also has a Meet and Greet [...]

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BritMums Photo Round-up: May Madness

May is turning out to be one heck of a month. First and foremost, it’s the month my little girl was born, so we’ve had lots of birthday celebrations (which means lots of photo shoots for Baby. Thankfully, she seems to enjoy them). I also photographed the Queen last week as part of her Diamond [...]

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Good Reads: Internet dating, Twitter & letter to daughters

Surprise!  It’s me again.  Sorry for the radio silence.  One has had a rather frenetic few weeks (personal and otherwise,) and I haven’t known where’s one’s arse is, let alone one’s elbow. So … what’s new?  Well, a lot of us met up at Cybher, which was great fun (my hotel room in Kings Cross [...]

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WIN 1 of 3 tickets to BritMums Live! 2012 – prize draw

We’re on countdown here at BritMums HQ with only five weeks to go until Brit Mums Live! and the last few delegate tickets are dwindling away. I have managed to get my hands on THREE of them to put up for grabs allowing three of you to come and join in the fun. Speakers include Sarah Brown, Camila [...]

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How to overcome blogging conference nerves

So I think we have worked it out by now. For a fair chunk of us, going to a blogger conference is petrifying.  BritMums Live! 2012 is the biggest conference I will have ever been to. As well as the inevitable nerves about walking into a huge event and meeting new bloggers, there is for [...]

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Video: Meet the BritMums Butterflies

Have you got your ticket to BritMums Live! 2012 yet?  Are you feeling nervous about attending such a big event?  Fear not, the BritMums Butterflies, a small group of friendly bloggers, will be stationed next to the tea and cake and available to run to if anyone is feeling a little bit lost or doesn’t [...]

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