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Skechers Entertainment Brings Zevo-3 to Nicktoons

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Giveaway: Easily Create a Digital Scrapbook with Shutterfly

Giveaway: Easily Create a Digital Scrapbook with Shutterfly

Image via CrunchBase Shutterfly allows you to easily create a digital scrapbook by using your digital pictures and their templates. Most of the time when I scrapbook, I create my entire pages from scratch. However, sometimes I want ...

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The Sonicare Challenge is Over

The Sonicare Challenge is Over

If you've been reading my blog, you know I am participating in the 30 day Sonicare Challenge. Over the weekend our family (me, Jason & 2 younger kids) completed our challenge. So, how did I like the Sonicare toothbrush? I ...

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Healthy Choice Inspires 20 Bloggers to be Better For BlogHer 2010

Healthy Choice Inspires 20 Bloggers to be Better For BlogHer 2010

A few weeks before BlogHer 2010, 20 bloggers were chosen to take a 12 week challenge to be "Better for BlogHer." Each blogger replaced one meal a day with a frozen Healthy Choice meal. I was one of those bloggers. On ...

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Image by K. Todd Storch via Flickr You can look to your com­peti­tors and com­pletely dif­fer­ent indus­tries to help pro­mote your prod­ucts both online and offline. Today, as I sat in the McDonald’s drive through line wait­ing for my Diet Coke and French Fries, I saw a sign at the busi­ness next door. Bring in your receipt […]

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Image by Irina Souiki via Flickr Below are 9 resources avail­able online to help you write your media kit. I am work­ing on writ­ing my media kit for this blog and for another blog. As I do with every project, I began by search­ing the inter­net for resources. These are the resources that I found […]

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I had the oppor­tu­nity to meet and inter­view Stacy Julian from Big Pic­ture Scrap­book­ing this past Feb­ru­ary at the Mom 2.0 Sum­mit in Hous­ton, Texas. Stacy has been an idol of mine ever since she gave me per­mis­sion to scrap out­side of the box. Sim­ple Scrap­books For years I was told I needed to scrap current […]

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I knew there was a rea­son I read Chris Brogan’s blog. It’s because he has such bril­liant ideas. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this sooner, but I love his idea of turn­ing Fri­day Fol­low into blog traf­fic for 4 rea­sons (and I’m imple­ment­ing it too). It brings traf­fic to my blog (the obvious […]

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If you live in the DC Metro area and are free on April 27th, come to the Blo­ga­li­cious DC meet up. I will be speak­ing on a panel with Terri Hol­ley and Ananda Leeke will be the mod­er­a­tor. Topic of the evening will be Women in Social Media. Blo­ga­li­cious held a meet up in February […]

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Image via Wikipedia Almost 14 years ago, I decided to take a leave of absence for 6 months to stay home with my first born. I never went back. It was not an easy deci­sion to stay home. I knew that I was (at least tem­porar­ily) giv­ing up hav­ing daily con­tact with adults and my […]

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Momz Share had it’s first EVER net­work­ing event for DC metro area mom and women blog­gers and I was there. Momz Share was started by Jen­nifer Ger­lock from Hip As I Wanna Be and Lara DiPaola of Chicken Nuggets of Wis­dom. They had this awe­some idea to get women together from the DC area so […]

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AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME!! That describes the SITS Bloggy Boot­camp I attended in Bal­ti­more. This was the fourth blog­ging con­fer­ence I’ve attended in the last year and the small­est, so I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I had heard some pos­i­tive feed­back from the SITSca­tion in Las Vegas last Octo­ber (and so jeal­ous I couldn’t […]

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