Mom Road Trip

Mom Road Trip Bloggers on KPIX CBS 5

Check it out!  SV Moms Group Road Trippers and founders of Silicon Valley Moms Group were on CBS News today!  Here is a clip of the video..... 

Mom Road Trip Site Featured On TYPEPAD!

A big shout and and THANK YOU to Six Apart!  We just saw that our Mom Road Trip Site is the FEATURED BLOG OF THE DAY!  Waaaahooo!!!!! Thanks for the awesome writeup about our journey cross country!

Action 3 News (Omaha) interviewed Road Trip Bloggers

It seems that the CBS affiliate stations enjoy meeting our Mom Road Trip Bloggers!  Last night (July 13, 2008), Action 3 News was there to meet and greet Meagan, Devra and Sarah, as they rolled in to their hotel in Omaha.

THANK YOU CBS!!!  Denver, here we come!!!

Other CBS interviews:

• Interview in DC, right before Devra and Sarah were taking off for the road trip.
• Interview in Chicago, with Meagan, Devra and Sarah, right before they were heading to Omaha.
• Kick Off Message, compliments of Katie Couric!

Retro Road Trip Interview

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Here are Sarah and me being interviewed on 9USA on the day the car arrived in DC. Why did it take so long for us to upload this video? Because we have been watching Iowa.

Here are what the critics are saying:

"Surprisingly hilly!" Meagan Francis, Chicago Moms Blog

"Unbelievably corny!" Devra Renner, DC Metro Moms Blog

"Dude, pull over, I gotta pee!"  Goon Squad Sarah, that's right. You heard me.

When Devra isn't pirating video of herself and Sarah from her living room, she can be found at Parentopia and DC Metro Moms Blog

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TUNE IN TONIGHT! 8pm PST, 11pm EST

We know, this will be kind of late for our East Coast friends.... but tune in tonight at 8pm PST, 11pm EST!

The Road Trip Moms will be LIVE tonight on Sunday Inquisition with Queen of Spain!

Tonight from 8pm-10pm Pacific, Erin Kotecki Vest of Queen of Spain blog, will be hosting a LIVE webchat with our road warriors. Log into Ustream and ask the girls a question or 10.

You all might know Erin from BlogHer, Huffington Post, and MOMocrats- and tonight she's got Sarah, Devra, and Meagan yakking away on their video cameras while you participate in a text chat.

We're also expecting things to get fun- seeing as Sarah and Erin know eachother not only through blogging, but go way back as friends. Sarah even sang at Erin's wedding. That means we're expecting JUICY gossip-or at that very least some great stories. Click HERE or HERE to see some photo's of Sarah, compliments of Erin (Queen of Spain).

LOG IN HERE at 8pm PST!

Chicago CBS interviewed Mom Road Trip Bloggers THIS MORNING!

DAY TWO:  FROM CHICAGO TO OMAHA

This morning, Suzanne Le Mignot of CBS Chicago News interviewed Meagan, Devra and Sarah about our Mom Road Trip and journey cross the country.  Click HERE to see the video.

(We are hoping to embed the video on our site shortly).

THE ROAD TRIP

Take five moms, give them a Chevy Tahoe Hybrid SUV, add wireless internet access in the vehicle, a GPS system, cutting-edge cameras and video recording technology, video games, music, gasoline, hotel stays, food, mainstream media covering the road trip on the internet & television - and see what happens as these hilarious and irreverent women drive coast to cost, picking up their fellow SV Moms Group Contributors and blogging it all on the road.....  Seriously, you will NOT want to miss following these bloggers as they make their way across the country, from Northern Virginia to San Francisco.

Here is a video from Katie Couric of CBS Evening News with a few words to Silicon Valley Moms Group mommy bloggers and our mom road trippers:

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Silicon Valley Moms Group has partnered with Six Apart to enable, amplify and share our journey across America.

Come Meet SV Moms Group Contributors participating in our first-ever, Silicon Valley Moms Group Road Trip '08: 

Dates and details about the trip:

July 6, 2008: Five selected contributors from SV Moms Group will begin blogging and video blogging (vblogging) about their upcoming road trip from Virginia, DC, Chicago and Loveland to San Francisco.

July 11, 2008:  Devra will receive the Chevy Tahoe Hybrid frm General Motors

July 12, 2008: Devra and Sarah from DC Metro Moms Blog will drive from DC to Chicago.

July 13, 2008:  Devra and Sarah will pick up Meagan from Chicago Moms Blog and drive to Omaha, Nebraska.

July 14, 2008: Devra, Sarah and Meagan will drive from Omaha to Denver.

July 15, 2008:  Devra, Sarah and Meagan will pick up Aviva from the soon-to-launch Rocky Mountain Moms Blog and drive to Salt Lake City.

July 16, 2008:  Devra, Sarah, Meagan and Aviva will drive from Salt Lake City to Reno.

July 17, 2008:  Devra, Sarah, Meagan and Aviva will drive from Reno to Silicon Valley, where they will pick up Jill Asher from Silicon Valley Moms Blog for the last thirty miles of the trip.  From Palo Alto, the six SV Moms Group contributors will drive to San Francisco.... where they will join 100 other contributors from SV Moms Group for a party in San Francisco that evening. Over the next few days will be more Silicon Valley Moms Group events and attendance at the BlogHer conference.

Beth Blecherman (Techmama) from the Silicon Valley Moms Blog will be tech blogging (behind the scenes) about some of the technology used on the Road Trip.

SV Moms Group: Road Trip Press Release

Silicon Valley Moms Group Goes On A High-Tech Road Trip To BlogHer
Follow along as five moms drive cross-country with their laptops, videocameras, and internet access…and no kids.

For Immediate Release:

San Francisco, CA – July 11, 2008 

Five moms. Zero kids. One week. 3,000 miles to go.

 

In this Web 2.0 version of “Thelma and Louise” (minus the fiery crash at the end—unless things get really out of control), a group of five women bloggers will drive cross-country to the annual BlogHer conference, while journaling their experiences in real time via blogging, photo blogging, and video blogging as well as interaction with their audience via comments, conversations and social media like Twitter and Facebook.

 

Starting in Washington, DC on Saturday, July 12; and ending up in San Francisco, CA on Thursday, July 17 with stops in Chicago, Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Reno along the way; the Mom Road Trip (www.momroadtrip.com) will provide a truly multi-media, interactive look at a journey you won’t want to miss.
 

The trip, developed in partnership with SixApart, (www.sixapart.com), is already attracting buzz in the blogosphere and beyond. A "welcome to the trip" video featuring Katie Couric has been loaded to the site to kick things off and the bloggers will be featured on CBS affiliates starting with appearances on the local CBS news in both Washington, DC and Chicago.

  

The road trip participants were selected from the Silicon Valley Moms Group, a collaborative community of writers from nine blogs in regions across the US. The blog network takes a unique look at the frustrations, joys, and humor of modern motherhood.

“What started out as a small idea that came to me one night while I was in bed trying to sleep has now blossomed into MomRoadTrip, a hilarious and irreverent website featuring moms sharing their experiences on the road through blogging technology,” says Jill Asher, Co-Founder of Silicon Valley Moms Group

To find out more about Silicon Valley Moms Road Trip ’08, go to http://momroadtrip.com.

SV Moms Group Media Contact

Jill Asher, Co-Founder

e: [email protected]