Last Friday the blogging community measured, mixed, and assembled peanut butter pie to celebrate the life of Jennifer Perillo’s husband, Mike. In her post, For Mikey, Jennie wrote about saying that she’d make her husband’s favorite peanut butter cream pie tomorrow. It was always on her to-do list until there were no tomorrows left. …
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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…
Think Pink in October, Give Green All Year to Support American Cancer Society
L-R: Renee Ross of CutieBootyCakes and fellow Blogger Advisory Council Member, Dr. Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer of the American Cancer Society, and me This weekend’s Blogalicious was the exhilarating whirlwind that most conferences are but on Sunday I had the pleasure of introducing Dr. Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer and executive vice president of…
Tragic Tale of Sexting at Yahoo MotherBoard Summit Serves as Chilling Reminder of Importance of Internet Safety
The Yahoo MotherBoard Summit agenda was jam packed with tons of information but I was most interested in the Online Safety Roundtable featuring Catherine Teitelbaum, Policy Director for Yahoo Safely and Anne Toth who serves as the Vice President and Head of Privacy for Yahoo. After a welcome, Catherine Teitelbaum showed us a video featuring…
Back from Yahoo MotherBoard Summit With So Much to Share!
First of all, let me apologize to my Twitter followers and Facebook friends for the endless tweets and updates about all the fun that me and fellow Yahoo! MotherBoard members (#YMotherBoard) had during our trip. I know what it is like to be the one at home following the hashtag because I’m usually that blogger….
Internet Safety Resources for Parents to Keep Kids Safe Online
As a blogger, school technology magnet coordinator, and social media consultant, I spend my days immersed in technology. Having recently participated in Mom Congress, Wired Safety’s Wired Kids Summit in DC, and through my regular conversations with tech-savvy and tech-scared parents, I keep hearing about the great need for parent education regarding social networking, social…
Ways to Be More Green with Your Technology Throughout the Year
While Earth Day serves as a good yearly reminder to remember to reduce, reuse, and recycle, the commitment to being green means adopting practices that should become routine throughout the year. By this point we know that plastic bottles, aluminum cans, newspapers, etc. can be recycled but what about cell phones, televisions, and computers? According…
