Is the blogosphere really cliquey?
One of the things I’ve noticed this weekend in among all the furore about blogging v blagging is a worrying number of comments talking about how ‘cliquey’ parent blogging is, and how hard it is to...
View ArticleDo you stalk your kids on facebook? A bit of a confession.
OK, confession time. And before you judge me, if you’ve ever seen that episode of Modern Family where Claire begs daughters Alex and Haley to accept her facebook friend request, and Know Exactly How...
View ArticleSocial media drunk dialling: Never a good look
DISCLAIMER: This post may or may not be tongue-in-cheek. When you’re fairly active in the blogosphere you tend to see a fair few car crashes on Twitter, forums and blogs. Of course everyone everyone’s...
View ArticleHow to be a successful blogger
I’ve seen a lot of nonsense talked about blogging over the past year, particularly by self-proclaimed ‘doyennes’ and ‘experts’ of blogging, and also by non-bloggers (I believe that if you’re not a...
View ArticleHave you had a Facebook purge?
Although I’m addicted to twitter, I do still use Facebook – mainly as a way of keeping in touch with family and friends, or people who have played a special part in my life. I make it a rule never to...
View ArticleYou may not like or understand parent bloggers – but there’s a lot more to us...
I was doing some research last night and quite by chance I stumbled upon the campaign ‘STFU parents’, which apparently has been gaining momentum in the US for quite a while now and was sparked by a...
View ArticleMaking new friends online
I was talking to one of my ‘real life’ friends recently – she came round for a few drinks one Saturday afternoon. She told me she’s feeling a bit lonely at the moment. Her boys are growing up fast, her...
View ArticleBack from the abyss
As some of you noticed, I’ve been largely absent from this blog and social media for the past 10 days. Sometimes something happens in your real life that completely obliterates everything else. The...
View ArticleHow to start a blog
I’ve written so many features on How to start a blog for magazines and websites I kind of forgot that I hadn’t actually written a post about it on The Mum Blog. Doh. And I know it’s easy when you’ve...
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