Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of Haiti’s devastating 7.0 earthquake that killed an estimated 230,000 people, injured 300,000, and made 1,000,000 homeless. The earthquake caused major damage in Port-au-Prince, Jacmel and other settlements in the region and over the 12 days that followed, the country experienced at least 52 aftershocks measuring 4.5 or greater. Despite the devastation and the recovery efforts,…
Ford Engages Bloggers to Show off Tech Savvy & Eco Friendly New Vehicles
Ford’s Driving Green Technology event has been eye opening to me as a mom, consumer, blogger, and as someone who represents brands. For a long time I’ve been hearing about the infamous Scott Monty (@ScottMonty), head of social media for Ford, and how he’s someone who really gets it. Today it was my pleasure to…
NOOKcolor Engages Readers of All Ages (w. giveaway)
We have a winner! Congratulations to @bamalynn– lucky entry number #198! When traveling, I used to pack a magazine, paperback book, and books for the kids in my carry on, making my bag heavy, bulky, and leaving little room for much else. As I think about what to take on my trip to Detroit, the…
Detroit Bound for North American International Auto Show as Guest of Ford
On Sunday I’ll be heading to Detroit as a guest of Ford Motor Company for their Driving Green Technology Event thanks to a partnership between Clever Girls Collective and Ogilvy PR. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is bringing together 100 green, tech, and lifestyle bloggers from 10 countries around the world and will include time at the North American…
Can’t Afford Lymphedema Sleeves? New Help For Breast Cancer Survivors
This amazing venture by two DC blogging moms (who I am so thrilled to be calling friends!) was announced yesterday. This post is cross-posted from Toddler Planet. Are you or do you know a breast cancer survivor? Please read today’s post and pass it on. If you can’t afford to purchase a lymphedema sleeve, gauntlet,…
Workout Wednesday: YourShape Site Provides Useful Resources to Help Maintain Fitness Resolutions
It’s January, the month for resolutions to be made and often broken. I’m starting this year in the middle of my commitment to use YourShape Fitness Evolved by Ubisoft to document my fitness progress and don’t think I’ll have any problem of maintaining motivation in this final month. I’ve combatted holiday eating and feel like I’m in…
DC Readers: STOMP Coming to Warner Theater in January (ticket discount code)
Our family loves attending live theater performances and while recently attending the Nutcracker at the Warner Theater, a flyer for STOMP caught our eye. Tech Savvy Daddy and I loved the high energy percussion performance of STOMP years ago when I lived in Boston and knew it would be the perfect treat for our kids…
Yahoo! How Good Grows- Ripples of Kindness Program
As a member of the Yahoo! MotherBoard, I was provided with $100 to start ripples of kindness as part of Yahoo’s How Good Grows program by surprising strangers and inspiring them to do nice things for others too. I thought for a long time about how I might want to use the money and decided…
Predicting Blogging and Tech Trends for 2011
Earlier this week I wrote about the many successful collaborations between bloggers and brands for Mom Blog Magazine and got to look in my crystal ball to predict some of the top parenting trends for 2011 for Parenting.com. Here are some other blogging and tech trends that I envision for the coming year: Hyperlocal…
Workout Wednesday: Wishing My Workouts Exceeded Screen Time Limits on Our Family Timer
I’ve discovered that the best way to ensure that I get my daily YourShape: Fitness Evolved workouts in is to do them in the mornings otherwise, I run the risk of my Kinect time being cut off with the limits I’ve set on the built in Family Timer on our Xbox! The built in Family…
