Mom Blogger, definition:
A mother who writes and maintains an online blog, or interactive, dynamically-updated website journal on the World Wide Web. See http://www.RebelHousewife.com.
ABC News Story:
Mom Blogger: Thousands of Mothers Blog About Their Lives
It's good to be a
Mom Blogger! Big corporations and advertising agencies are catching on:
- Women control the purse-strings of the average American household;
- Women talk, honey, and have incredible word of mouth marketing power;
- Increasingly, women are enjoying the power of online communication through the rapid-growth phenomenon of social networking and blogs.
- We call these online women, the Work At Home Moms (WAHMS) and the Stay At Home Moms (SAHMS), with the gift of online gab via blogs Mom Bloggers.
As I said, big corporations and advertising agencies are beginning to take notice and court the Mom Bloggers to assist in their marketing efforts. It's good to be a Mom Blogger!
Case in point: I've mentioned a New Media Event I attended by invitation in October:
The National Dairy Council's 3aDay.com VIP Night Out at Super Suppers of Decatur. It was fabulous, as I will let my new friend and fellow Mom Blogger, Michelle at
www.abeytacreative.com tell you (with permission, from
her blog):
Ok, next free food. Hoo Boy! Are you people ready for this? Cause I still don't quite believe I have a freezer full of awesome and amazing meals that will last the rest of the month as each meal is six HUGE servings!! FOR FREE. How, you wonder, did I do that? What magical powers have I wielded to get this? Well, as it turns out, writing this here blog for the past five years has paid off in cheese and chicken cutlets!
See, the National Dairy Council is promoting their 3 A Day Program (www.3aDay.org), in which they encourage you to each cheese and milk and yogurt and well ALL YUMMY DAIRY PRODUCTS. Cause ain't nothing better than DAIRY in my book! But most important to me is CHEESE. Let me tell you, girlfriend can say no to cookies and chocolate all day long, but you put a block of smoked mozzarella in front of me, and well, let's just say take it away at your own risk. I loves me some cheese. I love me dairy. I love milk, yogurt, sour cream, and did I mention CHEESE? So when they said, come out to
Super Suppers in Decatur and sample dairy-based meals and drink wine and meet and talk with other Mom Bloggers, I was all "Sure!" When they said, and you will make a week's worth of delicious meals to take home for free? I was all, "Please. You had me at cheese."
Super Suppers in Decatur is one of these places that you make a week or two weeks' worth of food in about two hours and take it all home. They provide all the ingredients, easy to follow menus and everything all on hand to bring it home and put in your freezer. Along with the instructions how to cook it later. Now, I don't know if they do this all the time, but they also gave us WINE while we made the meals. BONUS! So there I am in this wonderful little shop meeting Mom Bloggers from all over and talking and laughing and connecting. I particularly was fond of Sherri, who writes The Rebel Housewife and we swore we would get together again as we only live about 10 minutes apart. She even took a stack of my cards to hand out at the dog park! So after two-and-a-half hours we were done. With Sherri and I closing out the place because um, well, we apparently talk. A lot. So there I am with six huge meals for my family, plus a bag of goodies from 3aDay.org/The National Dairy Council.
I whole-heartedly agree with Michelle's assessment of the situation, and the pleasure of meeting her, especially, and the other
Mom Bloggers and
Nat'l Dairy Council women, and the wonderful people at
Super Suppers in Decatur. Be sure to check out the
3aDay.org website for all kinds of helpful information, including great recipes & snack information. Join the
3-a-Day Network for their informative email newsletter with recipes and special offers.
In the six weeks since the event, we've enjoyed the meals I brought home that night. I will share with you our favorite recipe in a separate entry,
BRUSCHETTA CHICKEN BAKE, which is as close-to-orgasmic a dish you'll find with the simple combination of chicken cutlets, CHEESE and bread crumbs...
yum.
Be it hereby known: I am a proud
Mom Blogger! I blog, therefore, I am, since 2003!