BMB is the largest network of British parent bloggers, giving you a place to gather, share ideas and opportunities and support each other. It’s a place to meet new bloggers, hone your skills and find your blogging “voice”. For those who want to work with brands that have relevant information for your blogs, we present you with appropriate opportunities and help make introductions.
It’s inevitable that when you gather a roomful of dynamic, highly opinionated people together — all at different places in their life and blogging – there will be disagreements and even clashes. Enter the world of the written word, where it can be so easy to mistake a person’s motives or to read something into a comment that was not intended, or for a legitimate disagreement to quickly escalate. Occasionally when this happens, it can be a recipe for ongoing negativity. Cue the fireworks.
We have guidelines at BMB to keep it a place where we can engage in constructive conversations in a safe environment. Healthy debate is encouraged. Directly attacking people is not tolerated and appropriate action will be taken.
If bitching is your thing, we strongly suggest you go somewhere else. There are plenty of other forums (and blogs) that thrive on this downward spiral.
We’re here to help improve your blogging skills, present opportunities and support each other through blogging and this parenting gig. We believe blogging should be a positive activity whether you’re writing, reading, Tweeting or just getting to know other bloggers. We welcome everyone who feels the same.
About Jennifer Howze
Jennifer Howze is the Creative Director and co-founder of BritMums. She blogs about family travel at Jenography.net, tweets at @JHowze and Instagrams at @JHowze. Previously, she wrote the Alpha Mummy blog at The Times and as a journalist has contributed to The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Wall Street Journal, Travel & Leisure, Budget Travel, CNN.com, Allure, SELF and Premiere, among others. She won The Maggie Award from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America for a health article in Seventeen magazine.
Domestic goddesque
Wednesday 3rd of November 2010
Mean-ness is so unnecessary, in blogging, as in life. Why people feel the need, I've no idea. It's so much fun building and being part of a blogging community. Why do people feel the need to take away others' joy?
Liz (LivingwithKids)
Tuesday 2nd of November 2010
I love BMB and I've made a lot of friends through being part of the network, and in the early days, when I really didn't have a clue what I was doing, the support and advice I received from other members was invaluable. I think the concept of 'Social Media Mums' is an interesting one - Twittermoms tweeted an article re this yesterday
aqeela
Monday 1st of November 2010
I think there is a trend in blogging to be quirky, sarcastic and ironic, its so insincere but everyones doing it now. And i think that attitude can sometimes come across as rude or offensive when perhaps it wasnt supposed to be. Sometimes its hard to express ourselves in the written form as a 'tone' cant be convayed. And its also easy to be delibrately mean to someone as you can hide behind your computer screen. I think we all just need to learn how to react to anything offensive and determine whether we should take that persons comments on board or not. Aqeela xx
Michelle
Monday 1st of November 2010
I love that we all have different opinions--it helps me learn more about the world. And one thing I really love about parent blogging in the UK is all the fantastic networking with really wonderful people. I just hate that some people don't respect different opinions, confuse the opinion with the person, or worse: I hate that a few people seem to actively seek out a fight under the disguise of feeling hurt or offended. Life is so much more fun when you choose to look at the good things. x
EmmaK
Monday 1st of November 2010
I think blogging has made me more tolerant of other people's opinions - I mean you don't have to argue with someone. If you don't agree I say just let them have their opinion and you have yours. What's the point of having a fist figh over it eh?