The Silicon Valley Moms Group LLC owns and operates regional mom blogs around the United States. Our sites showcase the ups, downs, outrages, struggles, victories, and everyday humor of motherhood. Our 350-plus writers are working moms, stay at home moms, city moms, suburban moms, and rural moms—but, most of all, they are opinionated moms. Check out our blogs by clicking on the buttons below.
Beth Blecherman, managing member: Beth Blecherman started her career
in programming, application development and then system auditing for Syntex (now Roche). She worked in consulting and was promoted to Senior Manager, Computer
Process Integrity, for Deloitte. After senior management she decided to take
on family management and started blogging as her career 2.0. Along with being part of the management team of Silicon Valley Moms Group, she founded TechMamas.com - a
tech blog with a parenting slant - as a
platform to discuss technology and gadgets for families. She participates in technical blogger outreach programs for major corporations and is active in Twitter as TechMama
Speaking engagements include BlogHer, SXSW and Web 2.0 on the topic of parenting, social
media and technology. Her recent session at SXSW titled “Moms
Who Tech” was written up in the Wall Street Journal and BBC. Her articles on technology and parenting have been published in Real Simple.com and Scholastic.com.
Tekla Nee, managing member: Tekla has been writing about parenting
for more than 25 years for magazines like Parenting,BabyTalk,Working Woman, Special Reports: Family, and Better Health and Living. She blogged for five years before there was such a word, writing a weekly column about about her life with three kids for the Palo Alto Daily News. She's published three books, The Mommy Rescue Guide First Year; The Mommy Zone: Tales from the Trenches of Parenthood; and The Everything Baby's First Year Book (also published in Russian and Chinese). And that's just in her spare time, during the day, she works as a senior editor at an internationally known technology magazine, and has been honored for her work by the American Society of Business Publication Editors.
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EVENTS, EVENTS, EVENTS! We can also talk to you about hosting local events to bring our Mom Bloggers to you. Corporations large and small want to target mommy bloggers and learn what we think about YOUR products and services. You want to get to "know" mom bloggers and develop a relationship with these influential women who broadcast their experiences to large audiences. Through our network, we are able to pull together influential mom bloggers, on a regional basis, to attend select functions. Here are some of the events that the Silicon Valley Moms Group LLC hosted in 2007 and 2008:
Sponsors of thePHENOMENAL Swag Bag for contributors of Silicon Valley Moms Blog and Chicago Moms Blog attending Blogher. (2007)
Mommy Bloggers are HOT! Want to learn more about the importance of mommyblogs to your advertising campaign? Watch Silicon Valley Moms Group Co-Founder Jill Asher on the Today Show: MOMBLOGGERS ON THE TODAY SHOW
Would you like Silicon Valley Moms Group contributors to attend your conference or event? If so, please contact us at info (at) svmoms (dot) com. Check out Silicon Valley Moms Group contributors at The 2008 Women's Conferenceand the vast amount of content created by our savvy social media experts/mom bloggers! We would love to hear about YOUR event or conference and potentially extend invites to our contributors throughout the country.
Silicon Valley Moms Group LLC sites mentioned in the press:
Attention Press: We LOVE
speaking to you! Got a burning parenting issue and need comments from our mommy bloggers? Want honest and timely feedback for your
article? We can be
contacted at info(at)svmoms (dot)com. We will forward all legitimate requests to our contributors and will work with your deadlines.
July 17, 2008:
CBS (Reno): Still waiting for link from CBS Reno. Mom Road Trip
Bloggers were interviewed from Harrah's Casino in Reno on July 17th
(early morning).
July 16, 2008:
CBS (Salt Lake City): Still waiting for link from CBS Salt Lake City.
Mom Road Trip Bloggers were interviewed in Salt Lake City.
Forbes 5/6/08 When Mom Packs A GadgetInterview with Co-founder of the Silicon Valley Moms Group and Chief Technology Mom Beth Blecherman (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)
February 2008 - Chicago Moms
Blog was listed as one of 171 best blogs in Chicago inFebruary
2008 issue of Chicago
Magazine. Click Here to see
the online article - Chicago Moms Blog is listed under the "Parenting"
category.(Chicago Moms Blog)
Here is a listing of the Silicon Valley Moms Group widgets and buttons that you can load to your personal blogs. The buttons are listed by image and by html code. Below the button are widgets that list the most recent posts per blog. To load the widgets, just choose "get widget" at the bottom and follow the instructions. If you have any issues loading the widget, email info (at) svmoms (dot) com.
