Join Lori from Weebles Wobblog, Monica Mingo, Pamela Tsigdinos and Melissa from Stirrup Queens for a frank discussion about what it's like to realize you are not on the fast track to motherhood. These women are in different stages of dealing with infertility issues, but there is one common thread. They all want or wanted to become a mom, and have found roadblocks and detours obscuring what seems to be so easy for others. Is infertility one of the last things that nobody wants to talk about? No...
If parenting in general can be isolating, it can be more so when raising a child with special needs. Susan Etlinger, Shannon Des Roches Rosa aka Squid Rosenberg, Kristina Chew, Jennifer Graf Groneberg and Vicki Forman are among those MommyBloggers who are blogging their experiences...and finding both a community...and a cause. Join them. Share your story. Find out how, to quote Vicki, "...to embrace and treasure what makes us all different. And the same."
You probably remember last year's Blogosphere Code of Conduct meme. One code of conduct could probably never apply to the blogosphere...but do you have a personal code of conduct? Where are your boundaries? And do you publish them? Moreover, there has been lots of talk lately about how marketers blow it with MommyBloggers (and other bloggers too, for that matter.) Horror stories can be fun, but what if we could change the game? Do you have a code of conduct you wish marketers would abide by? D...
We blog about our own self-images a lot, there's no doubt about that. But a lot of us also blog about our kids’ self-images. Our kids, at some point, become aware of their own physical attributes...and the physical attributes of other people too. Often we’re in the position of reacting to negative stuff they bring home. “You’re ugly, you’re too fat, your eyes are wrong, your color is different than your mom's” etc. Sometimes it’s really hard to help our kids if we don’t feel good about ourselv...
We'll talk to Chris Jordan about the unfortunate and very real reasons she protects her privacy online. We'll talk to Shannon Lowe, whose children are getting old enough to weigh in on what she should and should not blog about them. We'll talk to Crystal whose kids are also old enough, and who she has blogged about in a way that actually earned her hate mail! We'll talk to Shino Tanaka, a former police officer and current online community manager, about where danger lies and how to protect one...
Lindsay Ferrier recently made us all stop and think about it with her post "The State of the Mommyblog", and Lindsay is on hand to moderate this discussion with Polly Pagenhart (aka Lesbian Dad), Maria from Immoral Matriarch and Charlene Li, who still thinks blogging of any kind is a radical act, but is having trouble figuring out out to merge her personal and professional blogging identities to feel like one whole person.
Weber Shandwick interviews Tara Altier from This Military Mama (thismilitarymama.blogspot.com)
Weber Shandwick interviews Jean Crawford, director of PBS parents interactive. Learn more about the new SuperSister program!
Weber Shandwick is at BlogHer 08 in San Francisco and will be interviewing everyone from bloggers to sponsors. Keep checking back for more videos!
Google blog leader Karen Wickre interviews her counterpart at Kodak, Jenny Cisney about Kodak's award-winning efforts on creating a substantial and substantive corporate presence in the blog world. Jenny cites internal education and morale as one of the key benefits of their blog program, but I'm sure Karen and Jenny will compare a few notes on how it impacts their companies' stature externally too.