Sh*t Mom Bloggers Say [Video]

By now I am sure you have all seen at least one version of the “Shit People Say” video. This flurry of videos began in mid-December with Shit Girls Say, a hilarious and frighteningly accurate 1 minute and 19 seconds full of numerous quips that pretty much every woman alive is guilty of saying. The video quickly went viral and has since accumulated over 12 million views. That was just the beginning.

In the past month and a half, people everywhere took this idea of things certain types of people say and started creating their own videos. Some are based in observation, some from personal experience; some are in the name of awareness which lends to social justice activism (most notably, this happened with the Shit White Girls Say to Black Girls …

Is it Gender or Skills that Make a Good Social Media Marketer?

Ten years ago I started working for my husband providing marketing services for his software business. At the time, we were not married and he lived in another state therefore most of our communication was done over the phone. He didn’t have any background in marketing, and figured since I had taken some college courses related to marketing I could turn his business around.

How I wish social media was then what it is today. We were lucky to at least have Instant Messenger.

According to ComScore 2010 US Digital Year in Review women spend more time social networking than men. Women spent approximately 16.8% on social sites in December of 2010 while men spent only 12%.

Today, social media tools are just as much associated with businesses as well as personal lives. Some researchers …

Join Bloggers Unite for International Day of Compassion in Honor of Dr. Patch Adams

Compassion is an integral part of our humanity and sadly, we are seeing less and less of this trait being exercised in many of our everyday lives. On a much larger platform, the political climate we have found ourselves in today, and what we have seen in this aspect of our world throughout the past decade or more, is sorely lacking the degree of compassion for others as many had hoped to see when they cast their ballots for change.

After seeing a post on Dr. Patch Adams’ website, Bloggers Unite were inspired to create a day in his honor centered around this very trait that Dr. Adams so abundantly lives his life by. In the post, Dr. Adams put together a variety of different ways to show compassion in your …

Browser Compatibility and Woman Tribune’s Spontaneous Redesign

In addition to keeping Woman Tribune up and running, making sure it is updated daily and full of wise, interesting and all-around awesome information, I am also behind the overall design and development of the site. This has been a great arrangement since I have been a web designer and developer for small and medium-sized businesses throughout the past six years and not once have I ever had to factor professional design services into Woman Tribune’s business plan. Tip to professional and future-professional bloggers: Eliminating costs is the first step to seeing money earned from your blogging ventures!

So you would think that with a resume like mine, I would have had all the kinks of Woman Tribune’s design worked out long ago. You would have thought right, that is, until I changed the way in …

Ultimate Blog Party 2011!

Oh my goodness, it’s Ultimate Blog Party time again! Every year I swear I have a complete mental lapse and completely forget about this amazing event, but like clockwork, my very good friend Jenny reminds me. She’s pretty amazing like that, and she’s also partying so go check her out!

So, if all of this Ultimate Blog Party talk is completely new to you, let me get you up to speed. Every year, the immensely awesome women over at 5 Minutes for Mom put together the Ultimate Blog Party, a blogging event where all sorts of bloggers–thousands of bloggers, in fact– take part by creating a party post, pretty much like the one you are reading right now, and do a whole lot of blog hopping. Laughs are shared, discussions …

Out with the Depressingly Old

Woman Tribune has a brand spankin’ new look! Hooray! I’m obviously pretty psyched about the new look going on over here and hope you all like it as much as I do. This overhaul of the site was not exactly planned as much as I just could not stand to look at the design and function of the old site anymore. When you spend a good portion of your day, every day, adding fresh content to a site and making sure everything runs smoothly throughout the day, as I do for Woman Tribune, it doesn’t take very long to get sick of looking at the same thing day in and day out. When coupled with the fact that I am also a web designer and developer and have the luxury of not having to …