Silicon Valley Moms Group

Silicon Valley Moms Group Acquired By Technorati Media

Reports of our demise, as the saying goes, were premature. The Silicon Valley Moms Group of sister sites is taking up residence in a new location. Look for that great timely, opinionated, poignant, and sometimes just plain funny parenting content you're used to seeing on this site over at The Women's Channel at Technorati. After 6 great years of blogging here, we've moved to a new home.

Fondly,

Jill Asher, Beth Blecherman & Tekla Nee

Co-Founders, Silicon Valley Moms Group

SV MOMS GROUP BLOGS FOR HAITI

Collectively, we have a powerful voice.  Our messages and stories of aid, sadness, fear, shock and even hope made its way through the internet and social media tools upon learning about the devastation in Haiti.  We want to help and let the Haitians know that they are not alone.  In both small and large ways, the blogging community is here, getting the word out and using our united voices and sites to share love, concern and messages of hope.  Here are articles written by SV Moms Group Contributors since the earthquake.

• Techmamas:  Using Tech For Haiti Disaster Relief
  
• Sarah's Blog:  Haitian Relief Effort 10 Year Old Style
• Tech Savvy Mama:  Helping Haitians In Need and Websites For Discussing Current Events and Teaching Kids About Haiti
  
• Not Just A Working Mom:  Thinking Of Others
  
• Finding Bonggamom:  Helping Haiti
  
• (Rose) from Silicon Valley Moms Blog:  Saving the Bresma Orphans of Haiti
  
• Stimeyland:  Sometimes Words Are Small
  
• Two Kinds Of People:  Help For Haiti
• It's My Life:  More On The Bresma Orphans Of Haiti
  
• Confessions Of A Not So Well Behaved Woman:  Haiti
• Life Candy:  Delurk For Haiti
• Dirt and Noise:  5:00 Fridays
  
• This Mom Rocks It:  Sunday and Haiti
  
• We All Fall Down:  Shelterbox- Response to Haiti Earthquake - Help Haiti
• MaNNaHaTTaMaMMa: Every Penny Counts
• Just Precious:  Skip The Sitter, Help Haiti
• A Mommy Story:  Delurk And Help Haiti, Too!
• LA Story:  In The Spirit of MLK, Let's Help Haiti
• (Yvonne) from Los Angeles Moms Blog:  One Mother's Struggle To Get Adopted Daughter Out Of Haiti
• (Paige) from Silicon Valley Moms Blog:  Haiti And The Teachable Moment
• (Janelle) from Chicago Moms Blog:  Compassion Is The Answer
• Yvonne In LA:  Wonderful News!  Friend's Daughter Is On Her Way Out Of Haiti  and a HAPPY ENDING
• Hannemanics:  Trying To Be Good Makes Me Feel Bad
• Darling Hill:  Lawyer/Blogger PunditMom Urges Readers to DeLurk and Donate #Moms4Haiti
• I Never Signed Up For This:  A Never-Seen View Of Haiti
• Parentopia:  Combine and Remind:  Disaster Relief For Haiti and Help For Hurricane Katrina Survivors
• Teach Mama:  Talking To Kids About The Earthquake In Haiti
• Parent Grapevine:  Help For Haiti
• Their Bad Mother:  Between Haiti And Lisbon And All The Uncertain Places In Between
• Girlymama:  How $2.29 Moved Me To Tears and It's In Our Power To Act 
• Blogalicious:  Using Social Media For Good
• Lady M:  Shoes, Friends, Memories, Haiti
• Meg's Idle Chatter:  Talking To Kids About Haiti
• Tales From The Crib:  A Personal Connection......
• Garza Girl:  Managing Kids Earthquake Fears
• Chefduck Musings: The Crisis in Haiti On Martin Luther King Day
• The French mommy Born In California...:  What Works To Fight Poverty And Is Set Up To Affect Thousands In Haiti?
• Wife And Mommy:  What More Can I Do?
• Is This REALLY My Life?:  You Too Can Support Relief Efforts In Haiti and Utah Quilting Bee To Help Haiti
• Me Too You:  The Jar For "Old Man" and Haiti.....
• (Jill) from Silicon Valley Moms Blog:  Silicon Valley Efforts To Bring Team of Physicians, Nurses & Medical Supplies to Haiti
• PunditMom:  Mother's Of Intention - Are We Going To Let Haitian Orphans Die? 
• (Amy Z) from 50-Something Moms Blog: Hoops for Haiti – How Local Can Touch Global

SV Moms Group presents....the SV Moms Group BEST OF 2009 Posts

Happy 2010 to all!

We are pleased to share with you the SV Moms Group BEST OF 2009 Posts, as self-selected by our amazing and wonderful community of bloggers.

Happy reading!

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SILICON VALLEY MOMS BLOG

• Linsey:  Celebrating Jedi Training
• David:  Twitter is Bad For You
• Angela O.: One Garbage Bag Later: The Beauty of a Little Tough Love
• Samantha:  It's Sunday, I'm Not at Church. Are you?
• Tina:  The Name on the Diploma that Really Matters
• Nicole:  Open Source Spring Break in San Francisco
• Monica:  Jedi Don’t Pick Their Noses, and Other Things I Never Thought I’d Say
• Robyn:  Good-bye pajamas, Hello working-from-home
• Linda:  The Tooth Fairy Needs A Standard Rate Chart
• Maxine:  Scabies, Strep Throat, H1N1, and only three weeks into the first year at school...
• Darryle:  Mother's Day Matters
• Sidney:  Lice, Lice Baby
• Rox:  If Adam Lambert Does It, Why Can't My Son?
• Simon:  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor? I'll go with the first.
• Joan:  Stay at Home & Working Moms - Getting into a Groove
• Gina:  It's Between Me and Santa
• Kimberly:  Overscheduled Kids? No, Overscheduled Mom
• Erica:  Technology Has Made Me Stupid
• Ana:  Sanctimommy or Safetymommy?
• Michele:  Halloween Candy Count Reaches Triple Digits
• Stacy:  Dear Dads with Daughters
• Akemi:  A Mammogram and a Red Carnation
• Jamie:  If My Family Stopped Eating We Would Be Rich
• Paige:  One Child Left Behind
• Alix:  Dear Boy Scouts of America, Shoot!
• Stacy P.: Learning from Losing
• Sharon:  Coming Out Against Homework
• Kristen:  Confessions of a Mini-Van Mom
• Jessica:  All I Want for Christmas is Time
• Jill M.:  The Great Tree Debate: Real or Artificial?
• Meghan:  A Letter About a Gun
• Sarah E.: I Can't Handle Having a Nanny
• Jill A.:  "Happy Birthday" Has Taken On A Whole New Meaning.... Post Cancer
• Sheila:  Health Care Debate Comes to Silicon Valley
• Lisa:  Time Magazine- SEX and the Cito Cocoon?
• Karianna:  Who's Afraid of a Second Grader?

NEW JERSEY MOMS BLOG

• Lori Landau:  An Open Letter To My Son On His 16th Birthday
• Desiree:  God's meter is broken
• Kate B.:  The Shag, The Up-do, and The Mom
• Mary Kate:  Cell Hell
• Michelle:  Victoria's Secret...The Scoop
• Theta:  Giving the Film Industry the Finger - Now in 3D!
• Melissa S.: Time Flies When You've Got Kids
• Cristie:  Taming the Savage Beast
• Alicia:  Retail Woes Of A 40 Year Old: Whats In Between Juniors And Ladies?
• Jennifer:  Multiple Mania and Irresponsible Doctors
• Tracy: My Kids Not Going To College
• Sandra:  Mommy, Daddy's Teasing Me Again
• Meghan:  Battle of the Binky
• Mary Tara:  What Mom Wants is a Nightgown

CHICAGO MOMS BLOG

• Shannon: Anybody want to be my business partner in a drive-thru toilet paper store?
• Karen:  Embracing My Deaf Self
• Melanie:  bumpaholic? i don't think so...
• Alma:  Buckle up and vaccinate
• Nancy Loo:  Thank Heaven for Little Stink Bombs
• Farrah:  Un-Romantic Texter
• Sophia:  Aging Drivers and the Children Who Love Them
• Caitlin:  Blocked on Twitter? Who Me? Couldn't Be!
• Cindy:  A Tale of Two Couples
• Lisa H.: Haunted By Christmases Past
• Angela:  Theater of the Absurd
• Tracey:  Playground Hierarchy
• Susan:  iPhones — New Hope for Special Needs Kids
• Cynthia:  The Yelling House
• Janelle: Overwhelmed but not Out
• Miss Lori:  Names will never hurt me
• Marie:  My Kind of Town
• Kim:  I Will Become A Woman In 2010
• Cheryl:  The Special Needs Mom Versus "The Future"
• Sandra:  Kindergarten Rejection
• MJ:  Simplifying My Lifestyle

CANADA MOMS BLOG

• Karen:  Nobody's Perfect 
• Karen Green:  Not On The Guest List
• Natasha:  Falling upon the sexiness of frigid Canada
• Haley-O:  Breathe In, Breathe Out: Yoga for Moms
• Kami:  Summer Vacation, Somebody Save Me From my Kids
• Janet:  Canadian Road Trip
• Kerry:  Hello: My name is ___?
• Jessica:  Telling them Poppa died
• Sherry:  Stepping up to help out
• Angella:  Let's Talk About Sex, Baby
• EarnestGirl:  How Did I Get Here?
• Shannon:  Have you had that baby yet?
• Nenette:  A Note to Pre-Baby Me
• Fawn:  Is Three a Crowd?

NEW YORK CITY MOMS BLOG

• Helen P. : Feminism Is Not A Bad Word
• Carloyn E.:  The King of All Bad Words
• Amy O:  So You've Done Something Dumb
• Rebecca:  Advice Not Wanted
• Kelcey:  Where's That 20-something Girl?
• Becca:  Don't Quit Your Day Job, Tooth Fairy
• Marinka:  Curses
• Karen:  How I Know I'm a Mom
• Pamela:  Leaving the kitchen table
• Dagmar:  Why Spanking is Not For Me
• Beth F.: Mean Girls
• DeborahQ:  Define Good Insurance
• Adelaide:  So Long Sarah
• Deb F.: On the Road: Balancing Travel, Work & Motherhood
• Nancy:  And the Mom-cademy Award Goes to...
• Esti:  Are You Jewish?
• Aimee:  Birthday Party, Smirthday Party
• Jessica:  I Love Big Kids

DC METRO MOMS BLOG

• Justice Fergie:  Identity Crisis
• Sarah:  The Class of 2022
• Devra:  He has a higher security clearance than the school bus driver. So shouldn't you be able to trust him with your kids?
• Aimee Olivo:  DC's Ultimate Celebrity Sighting: President Obama
• Stephanie:  The First Rule of Poop
• Kimberly:  He's Lucky the Baby Wasn't Born Right There in the Drive Thru
• Kate:  The Island of Misfit Toys
• Jodi:  When Your Preschooler's Self Esteem Is Suffering
• Dawn M.:  The Metrobus is My Car
• Susan:  Nailing the New Normal
• Jean:  Why I Curse in Front of My Kids
• Jessica:  It Isn't, It Wasn't, Oh No You Didn't
• Amy M.: Dear Golf, I Totally Hate Your Guts
• Michelle:  Insurance, Guarantees, and Promises
• Suzie:  Stepping into my parents' shoes
• Thien-Kim:  I Want My Kid to Fall at the Playground
• Joanne:  When is it Time for "The Talk?"
• Stacy K.: How to be the best in-laws
• Jill:  Flying Steerage...uh, I Mean Economy
• Nicole:  My Ectopic Pregnancy Gone Horribly Wrong
• Diana:  Of Vaginas And Hoo-Has
• Gayle:  I Have A Mom Purse
• Linda:  Defeated by Downtown DC
• Sandie:  My First Orphaned Birthday
• Claire Jess:  A Bra Costs WHAT?
• Sue:  Then again, sometimes you DO get a second chance
• Leticia: I Quit the PTA
• Julie T.: Transgressions: A Suburban Mom's Open Letter to Tiger Woods
• Delora:  When to Say Goodbye to a Beloved Pet

DEEP SOUTH MOMS BLOG

• Nicki:  There's Never Enough Time
• Liza:  Open Letter to Scholastic Book Fair
• Ilina:  Who Aren't You Calling American?
• Amy@UPM:  Cupcakes for a Stronger America
• Shanna:  I once considered stealing a baby
• Jamie:  Divine Secrets of the Mesh Panties Sisterhood
• Stephanie:  Friday Night Flashback
• Jen: In the Red
• ChristinaY:  Dear Preschool: My Checkbook is empty!
• Angie:  No more excuses, baby...it is ON!

LOS ANGELES MOMS BLOG

• Amanda:  When Grandma Met Fabio
• Teresa D. : P.H. (posthumously) I Love You
• Erin:  God for Beginners
• Lexi:  This Too Shall Piss
• Elizabeth A.:  Jumping into the Fray
• Florinda:  Baby dreams and bad timing
• April:  What to do when Daddy's in jail?
• Sarah:  Travel Without Children = Heaven
• Amy:  And Then The Unthinkable Happened
• Kim:  Playdate Deadbeat
• Jessica: Yoo Hoo, I'm Right Here! No Here! Hello?! Can You Hear Me?!
• Jeannine:  The Fairy Tale
• Laura:  How Camp Snoopy Almost Killed Me
• Elise:  Religion Skips a Generation in My Family
• Ciaran:  Thank You, Thank You, Thank You... I mean it!
• Elizabeth P.:  Diaper Dealer
• Liz D.: A Black President For My Black Sons
• Ana:  Does Pink Really Stink
• MC:  Drowning in Recyclables
• Donna:  And Now, I'm Dieting for Two
• Yvonne:  Life Lessons I Hope They Don't Remeber
• Sweatpantsmom: I wouldn't know a celebrity if they moved in next door to me
• Kimberly:  When your personal values may be bad for your kids
• Eunice:  Call of the Wild

ROCKY MOUNTAIN MOMS BLOG

• Emily:  My pre-teen daughter, her body image and an overly concerned dad
• Daphne:  One House Two House Nude House Prude House
• Michelle B.: A Day Out Shopping with the Terrible Twos
• Melospiza:  Children are different: the list
• Brie:  The Unnatural Outcast
• Allison:  Have Poop, Will Travel
• Kalli:  H1N1 Vaccinations and the ensuing paranoia
• Mandi:  Good Mom / Bad Mom ... Thou Shall Not Judge
• Oz:  Motherhood Has Turned Me Into My Father

PHILLY MOMS BLOG

• Lynn:  Three Little Words
• Amy:  Girls and Science
• Teresa:  A Mummerific Happy New Year to You
• Michelle:  Ladies & Gentleman, The President of The United States
• Julie:  Two Kids React to the Death of Their Grandfather
• Cecily:  Outfest 2009: Shaping My Daughter's Thoughts on Gender
• Courtney:  Under The Table
• Lindsay:  She's Just Not That Into Me
• Melissa:  what kind of mom forgets her baby in the car?
• Mary Fran:  Mother's Day--Bah, Humbug!
• Whitney:  Dealing with death: the loss of a beloved pet
• Kay:  Learning to Read

50 SOMETHING MOMS BLOG

• Jennifer:  Layoffs, Pirates, Swine Flu, Oh My
• Amy Z.: Significant Other Sleepover, or Not Under My Roof 
• Annie:  Lying About Health Care Reform
• Alicia:  The Compromise That Saved Christmas
• Lollie:  Dear Kate: Welcome to Single Motherhood
• Donna:  The Deal with School Selection

OHIO MOMS BLOG (our newest site, just launched in December 2009!)

• Rachel:  Mommy Friends
• FireMom:  Baby, It's Cold Outside
• Marianne:  Flyover Me
• Momo:

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Silicon Valley Moms Group LLC

 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.

• Silicon Valley Moms Blog (launched March 2006)
• Chicago Moms Blog (launched April 2007)
• DC Metro Moms Blog (launched September 2007)
• New York City Moms Blog (launched December 2007)
• New Jersey Moms Blog (launched April 2008)
• 50-Something Moms Blog (launched May 2008)
• Deep South Moms Blog (launched June 2008)
• Los Angeles Moms Blog (launched July 2008)
• Philadelphia Moms Blog (launched December 2008)
• Rocky Mountain Moms Blog (launched January 2009)
• Canada Moms Blog (launched March 2009)
• Ohio Moms Blog (launched December 2009)
• Orange County Moms blog (launced March 2010)
  

The Managing Team:

Jill Asher, Managing Member, PARTNER & CO-FOUNDER: Jill Asher is the co-founder of Silicon Valley Moms Group.  The idea came to Jill over three years ago (March 2006) to start Silicon Valley Moms Blog, following her one year "Presidency" of PAMP.  Inviting friend after friend to join this "crazy idea"  that moms would want to write about parenting experiences in their regional area, Jill has watched Silicon Valley Moms Group blossom to over eleven collaborative blogging communities and 350+ contributors.  Jill  Asher handles PR, Marketing, Community Development and Outreach for SVMoms Group. Jill Asher also consults with companies on social media strategy, blogger outreach and content creation.

Beth Blecherman, Managing Member, PARTNER & CO-FOUNDER: 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.  Beth Blecherman/TechMamas.com was chosen as one of the Nielson Power Mom 50 influencers and a Parents Magazine Power Mom.  On Twitter as TechMama she was choosen as one of the 25 Influential Moms to Follow on Twitter and BizTechDay's 25 Influential Business Women in Bay Area. Beth is on the Board of Advisors for MommyTech at CES. 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, PARTNER & CO-FOUNDER: Tekla acts as editor-in-chief and CFO for the Group. She 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.

 

SV Moms Group LLC Media Guide & Press Page

 

Silicon Valley Moms Group LLC sites mentioned in the press:

Here is the Silicon Valley Moms Group LLC Video Montage (Produced by New York City Moms Blog Contributor and COO of YouHere Productions , Ursula von Rydingsvard.).

December 2009 LAist, 12/11/09 Help A Mother Out: Bring Diapers to the Treehouse this Sunday

April 2009

Toy & Family Entertainment, RoleMommy.com  4/21/09  Guess Who Just Got Lots of Mommy Blogger Love?(Silicon Valley Moms Group in powerful mom community section)

ABC News 4/13/09 Parenting Blogs May Be Held Liable For Product Reviews (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

New York Daily News 4/7/09 Your mama's so tech-savvy, she loves to text message.... with her mom (New Jersey Moms Blog)

Scholastic.com 4/06/09  Take a Byte Our of Life  (Silicon Valley Moms Group)

March 2009

Morning News Beat 3/27/09 Las Vegas Blog: Reporting from the IRI Summit 2009, Day 2 (Chicago Moms Blog)

The New York Daily News 3/24/09 The Real Housewives Of Brooklyn (New York City Moms Blog)

Boston.com 3/13/09 Boston Youths Say Rihanna Was To Blame For Her Beating (Deep South Moms Blog)

KTVU 3/11/09 Interview with Jill Asher and Myrna Lansch on Cyberbullying post on Silicon Valley Moms Blog.

Palo Alto Online 3/6/09 Editorial: Facebook must face up to "cyber-bullying" (Silicon Valley)

February 2009

New York Times Magazine 2/24/09 Big Lies, Little Lies and the Tooth Fairy (NYC Moms Blog)

ABC News 2/11/09 Salma Hayek and why she breastfed another woman's baby (NYC Moms Blog)
 

ABC News 2/4/09 Lavish Kids' Parties Get Trimmed in Bad Economy (LA Moms Blog and NYC Moms Blog)

January 2009

Boston.com 1/23/09  Mean girls (and how to help your daughter deal with them) (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)
 

KTVU January 2009  Video interview with Beth Blecherman, Co-founder of SV Moms Group on Stay At Home Moms Trying to Produce Income In Touch Economy (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Lookiloos 1/17/2009 Palo Alto Patio (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)
 

November 2008

NPR 11/24/08 TV Nannies Offer A Spoonful Of Schadenfreude (Chicago Moms Blog)

Brand Republic 11/18/08 Motrin Moms derail J&J campaign (Los Angeles Moms Blog)

Advertising Age 11/17/08 How Twittering Critics Brought Down Motrin Mom Campaign (Los Angeles Moms Blog)

New York Times 11/14/08 Does Rewarding Children Backfire? (New York City Moms Blog)

New York Times 11/13/08 Paying Kids to Be Good (New York City Moms Blog) 

October 2008

CBS 5 Eye On Blogs 10/27/08 Kids Know Marriage Far Before School (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

LAist 10/22/08 Big Day In Long Beach (Los Angeles Moms Blog)

Blogs and Sites Mentioning SV Moms Group 2008 DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge:

• Beth from Techmamas:  DonorsChoose.org Challenge:  Donate To Help Schools
• Jamie from Blonde Mom Blog:  Help Make A Difference In Our Public Schools
• Leticia from Tech Savvy Mama:  Website of the Week:  Support Public Education with DonorsChoose.org
• Meghan from Meaghan's Mindless Muttering:  Donor's Choose
• Jodi from Jodifur:  I Know That These Are Hard Economocial Times
• Lotus from Sarcastic Mom:  Definitely Good For The Kids
• Amy from Selfish Mom:  Help Out Some Public Schools
• Florinda from The 3R'S: Reading, 'Riting, And Randomness:  Saturday Review 10-4 (good buddy)
• Ana from Finding Bonggamom:  Give, baby, give!
• Nicole from Not Just A Working Mom: Help a kid out... Invest in our future... Are you up for the Challenge?
• Robyn from Who's The Boss?: What if you could change the world for the price of a latte?
• Josephine from MOMMYVENTS: Help a teacher out.....
• Melissa from Cool Stuff We Dig:  We Dig the DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge
• MJ from ChicagoMomViews.net:  Chicago Public Schools need us!
• Jessica from Surely You Nest:  DonorsChoose - Targeted Gifts to Public School Class Projects
• Lisa from Blog On The Wall: Help Impoverished Public Schools
• Stacy from Fabulous Miss S.:  Boogers and Giving and DC Metro Moms Donor Challenge
• Karen from SOBCon08:  Karen Putz Shares Her World
• Michele from Mom Without A Map:  Keep The Momentum Going
• Shelli from BagMomma:  Invest In Education
• Stacey from Laptop TV Mom:  Donors Choose:  Buying Books for our Schools
• Jessica from Jessica Gottlieb:  Hey, Mom, This Means You
• Donya from Crooked Eyebrow:  It's Your Choice.....
• Cindy from We All Fall Down:  Help Chicago Schoolchildren
• Sara from Self Made Mom:  Hi, I'm Alive
• Lia from Freitas Family Follies: Donors Choose: Help A Teacher Out
• Dayna from Bourbon Baybee:  A Poser Donates
• Myrna from Tangerine Times: Donors Choose Blogger Challenge
• Six Apart/blogs.com:  Bloggers, Start Your Engines!
• Burbed.com:  Silicon Valley Moms Blog Donors Choose
• Dad Or Bust:  Laughs are only a nickel
• Successful and Outstanding Bloggers:  Karen Putz on the Chicago Moms Blog  Donors Choose Challenge

September 2008

Parentcenter (MOMfromation)  9/29/08  Ovarian Cancer: The silent killer (New Jersey Moms Blog)

Baby Bunching 9/28/08  Baby Brunching Bests  (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

August 2008

Every Mother Is A Working Mother  8/25/08  Jill Asher At SV Moms: Read It Now! (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

White Trash Moms Blog 8/24/08 Jill Asher At SV Moms:  Great Advice For Mom Bloggers (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

July 2008

July 23, 2008: Palo Alto Weekly News  Mom and dad's duties get virtual nip-tuck (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

July 17, 2008  Chevy created a video release about SV Moms Group Summer Road Trip '08

July 17, 2008: KPIX CBS 5 (San Francisco):  Interview with Mom Road Trip Bloggers and SIlicon Valley Moms Blog.

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.

July 14, 2008: Press Release from Six Apart:  Six Apart Partners With Silicon Valley Moms Group on Their Summer Road Trip

July 13, 2008: ACTION 3 NEWS OMAHA:  LIVE interview of Mom Road Trip Bloggers, Meagan, Devra and Sarah.

July 13, 2008: CBS CHICAGO MORNING NEWS:  Interviewed (LIVE) Mom Road Trip Bloggers, Meagan, Devra and Sarah.

July 11, 2008: CBS DC EVENING NEWS: Interviewed Mom Road Trip Bloggers, Devra and Sarah right before they took off from DC.

July 11, 2008: Press Release from Silicon Valley Moms Group:  SV Moms Group Summer Road Trip '08 PRESS RELEASE

July 10, 2008: Katie Couric of CBS News welcomes Silicon Valley Moms Group Mom Road Trip Bloggers  

 

Our friends throughout the blogosphere talked about our cross country road trip!

 

• Valleywag:  NBC'S iVillage mommying BlogHer with $5 million

• Guy Kawasaki - How To Change The World: Smart Marketing: Cannonball Run For Chicks

• GM Blogs:  Chevy Road Tippin' To Blogher
• The EVERYTHING Typepad Blog: TypePad Mommy Bloggers Embark on Their Summer Road Trip ’08
• Deal Architect:  Cannonball Run 2.0?
• MomsMinivan.com:  Blogger Mom Road Trip!
• Manafu Blog:  Blogs: Campanie pe bloguri la americani
• Mommyvents: Type A Mom
• Paper Bridges:  Blogher Road Trip: A Fantasy Conversation With My Husband
• Sarah And The Goon Squad:  The Big News
• Parentopia: We're baaaack and then we'll be on the road, but we're taking you with us!
• Seasons For All: Silicon Valley Moms Group - Summer Road Trip '08
• MomViews.net - Mom Bloggers On A Road Trip
• Working Moms Against Guilt:  Queens Of The Road
• Phat Mommy:  Road Trip To Blogher
• Seriously Mama:  Life Is A Highway.......
• A Bushel And A Peck:  DC Metro Moms Must-Know Info.
• Loser Moms:  Psssst.
• Adventures In Juggling:  Road Trip
• Chefdruck Musings: A Few Shout Outs
• BusyBodyBook Blog:  The Silicon Valley MOMS Group Road Trip To Blogher - Off and running.
• Tech Savvy Mama: Heading To BlogHer
• BagMomma:  Coast to Coast: BlogHer or Bust
• Hormone-colored Days:  Mom Road Trip: Astronaut Diapers And Mountain Dew
• Meagan Francis:  if you need me next week, you can try me on my car phone......
• Y&R: Receita de sucesso?
• Bring The Family:  Elsewhere: Mom Road Trip
• Deep Much Big Rake:  Mom Road Trip, aka Devra and Sarah's (and Meagan's and Aviva's and Jill's) Excellent Adventure
• Queen Of Spain: Kicking Off BlogHer: my friends, and Katie Couric
• BlogHer: Katie Couric kicks off BlogHer: Video
• A Parent In Silver Spring:  BlogHer, Katie Couric, Road Trips & APISS
• MOMformation: Mom Road Trip to BlogHer
• Ageless Body/Timeless Mom:  Mommy Blogger Road Trip Shameless Promotion
• Jodifur: It Must Be Said
• Want Sugar: On SV Moms + Katie Couric Video video message
• DVM Moms (District Virginia Maryland): Road Trip: Power of Mommybloggers!
• My Life As It Is:  Road Trip!
• This Full House:  Gone Fishing - Will Be Back Soon, Or Not
• Meagan Francis:  what I'll miss/what I won't
• My Funny, Funny Family: Mommy Playdate
• Kristabella: Full of Snark SInce 1977:  It's A Blogstravaganza!
• Lauren the Cartoon Goddess:  See what other moms do....
• Mother's With Cancer:  Flashes of Hope
• Beneath The Brand:  A Road Trip Worth Taking
• Marketing Mommy:  I won't blubber about BlogHer
• Sellsius:  Blogging Moms Go Cross Country
• Coruja (Parenting)"  Maes blogueiras ganham a estrada
• Ask Patty:  Moms On The Road: From D.C. to Cali
• The EcoChic Organizer:  Mom Road Trip Pit Stop in Chicago
• parentdish (AOL living): Mommy Bloggers Cross-Country Roadtrip to BlogHer

June 2008
MSNBC 5/2/08  Grandparents behaving badly (New Jersey Moms Blog)

May 2008

NBC 11.com  5/13/08 Live Video Interview with Jill Asher, Co-Founder of Silicon Valley Moms Blog (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

SF Gate 5/11/08 In parenthood, sometimes a blog is born  (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

MSNBC 5/7/08  Taking It Public (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Forbes 5/6/08  When Mom Packs A Gadget Interview with Co-founder of the Silicon Valley Moms Group and Chief Technology Mom Beth Blecherman (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

YouTube 5/6/08  Silicon Valley Moms Bloggers Meet California First Lady Maria Shriver   (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Graco Blog 5/1/08 Graco's Monthly Nod (New York City Moms Blog)
 

April 2008

Jill Asher, co-founder of the Silicon Valley Moms Group LLC, interviewed on the Today Show. April 2008

San Jose Mercury News  4/30/08  State's first lady gabs about her life, new book (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

SheKnows 4/22/08 A Delicate (Digital) Balance  (Chicago Moms Blog)

Shine 4/9/08 Katie Couric Chats With Mom Bloggers (Silicon Valley Moms Group)

Catalyst Chicago 4/9/08 Around The Blogs (Chicago Moms Blog)

CBS News 4/7/08 Meet The Parents (Who Blog), by Katie Curic (Silicon Valley Moms Group)

Celebrity Baby Blog 4/7/08 Around The Web... (New York City Moms Blog)

Today Show 4/2/08  Interview With Jill Asher of Silicon Valley Moms Blog (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Parent Hacks 4/2/08  Parent Hacks Links For 2008-04-02 (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

 

March 2008

Catalyst Chicago 3/31/08 Around The Blogs (Chicago Moms Blog)

Shine 3/31/08  There Is No Fury Like A Momblogger Fury (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Celebrity Baby Blog 3/28/08 Around The Web (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Graco Blog 3/3/08 Graco's Monthly Nod (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Graco Blog 3/3/08 Graco's Monthly Nod (DC Metro Moms Blog)

February 2008

Time Out Chicago 2/14/08 Almost Famous (Chicago Moms Blog)

February 2008 - Chicago Moms Blog was listed as one of 171 best blogs in Chicago in February 2008 issue of Chicago Magazine. Click Here to see the online article - Chicago Moms Blog is listed under the "Parenting" category. (Chicago Moms Blog)

January 2008

ABC News  1/24/08 Funny or Informative? Mom Video Blogs Sex Education (DC Metro Moms Blog)

ABC News  1/24/08 Preschoolers Behaving Badly: Expulsions Rise (New York City Moms Blog)

Christian Science Monitor  1/17/08  Automakers put bloggers in the driver's seat (Chicago Moms Blog)

 BBC Radio 1/10/08 New Kids On The Blog (DC Metro Moms Blog)

 

Menlo Park Almanac 1/9/08 Menlo Park mom wins a makeover (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

December 2007

ABC News  12/27/07 Should Parents Let Kids Travel With Other Families? (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

New York Times 12/10/07  How To Spend Your Holiday Bonus At Starbucks (New York City Moms Blog)

The Nest  12/07/07 Touchy Topics (New York City Moms Blog)

November 2007

Daily Herold  11/27/07  The Power of Mommy Bloggers (Chicago Moms Blog)

Moms Logic  11/26/07 SAHM with Nanny + Evil? (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

 Chicago Sun Times 11/23/07  Checking Our List (Chicago Moms Blog)

Palo Alto Weekly  11/21/07 No Mere Child's Play (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Today Show  11/13/07 Wall Street Versus Main Street: Customers Cut Back As Economy Slides (Chicago Moms Blog)

Kids in the City Blog  11/17/07 NYC Moms Blog - Worth a Web Click (New York City Moms Blog)

 

October 2007

Palo Alto Online  10/25/07  Palo Alto School Board Candidate's Forum Tonight (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

FOX New  10/24/07 Cancer Patient Using Blog to Spread Awareness (DC Metro Moms Blog)

ABC News  10/23/07 Dumbledore's Gay: Does Anyone Care? (SV Moms Group)

Pressconnects  10/14/07 A blog of one's own  (DC Metro Moms Blog)

Pressconnects  10/14/07 A blog of one's own (Silicon Valley Moms Blog and Chicago Moms Blog)

San Jose Mercury News  10/07/07  "Hutch: Mommy blog spreads the campaign news"  (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Typepad 10/12/07  Typepad customers in the news (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

ABC News 10/08/07 The Letter of Sex Discrimination Laws Versus Reality (Chicago Moms Blog)

John Edwards Blog  10/02/07 
Have you heard about Elizabeth Edwards and the Mommy Bloggers? (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Daily Kos  10/02/07 
Have you heard about Elizabeth Edwards and the Mommy Bloggers? (Silicon Valley Moms Blog and Chicago Moms Blog)

September 2007

Boston.com    9/30/07    Parent's Toy Shopping with Added Caution  (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

New York Times    9/29/07    Recalls Make Toy Shopping a Source of Anxiety (Silicon Valley Moms Blog and Chicago Moms Blog)

Chicago Tribune Online 9/26/07 Autism and the Adopted Child (Chicago Moms Blog)

BNet Research Center  9/21/07  Come In And Play; Cooler Weather Leaves Parents Searching For New  (Chicago Moms Blog)


San Jose Mercury News  9/14/07   "Valley Web site draws postings from John Edwards' wife", View From A Blog. (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Chicago Sun Times 9/12/07 Many moms suffer similar nightmare (Chicago Moms Blog)

ABC News  9/06/07  Interview about the school bus snafu.. (DC Metro Moms Blog)

ABC News  9/05/07   Life Stages: New Cell Service Blocks Kids' Calls, Texts, Downloads (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Palo Alto Online 9/05/07 Guest Opinion: The Kids on the Bus (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

ABC News  9/05/07   Life Stages: New Cell Service Blocks Kids' Calls, Texts, Downloads (DC Metro Moms Blog)

Fishbowl DC 9/05/07 Morning Reading List (DC Metro Moms Blog)

Washington Post 9/04/07 Who's Blogging - Boys Wearing Crocs Is Hurt On Escalator (DC Metro Moms Blog)

August 2007

Good Morning America/ABC News 8/30/07 Family Politics:Blogger Debates Kids' Place on Trail, Click here to see the video. (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

NHL Blog (Paul Kukla)  8/14/07 Kari at Silicon Valley Moms Blog wants you... (Give Hockey A Try Day) (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

ABC News 8/14/07 Toy Recall Has Parents Wondering 'What's Next' (Chicago Moms Blog)

Chicago Tribune 8/10/07 Parents cast wary eye towards the toy chests (Chicago Moms Blog)

San Jose Sharkspage Blog 8/10/07 Norcal Women's Hockey League sponsors Give Hockey a Try Day August 18th (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Wall Street Journal 8/9/07 Our vacation post was Listed in the related content under the article The Problem With Family Vacations. (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Contra Costa Times 8/8/07  Blogging Dr. Spock (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Washington Post   8/3/07  Elizabeth Edwards On "Mom Blogs" (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Palo Alto Weekly  8/1/07   Mod Mom Gets A Makeover (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

San Jose Mercury News   8/1/07 Employers benefit when mothers have job flexibility (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

July 2007

7X7 San Francisco   7/13/07  Cyber Patrol (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Daily Kos 7/31/07 Elizabeth Edwards and the 800+ Women of BlogHer  (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

John Edwards Blog 7/29/07    Elizabeth Edwards at BlogHer (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Daily Kos 7/29/2007 Edwards Evening News Roundup - Sunday Night Edition (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

BlogHer   7/27/2007 Guide To live-blogging from BlogHer 07 (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

June 2007

Chicago Tribune   6/27/07 New blog site lets mothers write it out (Chicago Moms Blog)

San Jose Mercury News   6/18/07 Celebrate, Don't, don't criticize motherhood choices (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

San Jose Mercury News   6/13/07 Off to work or stay home? The battle is still raging  (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

May 2007

Wall Street Journal   5/18/07 Helping Overbooked Parents Cut Back Their Schedules (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Mommybloggers 5/09/07 - In Praise of Silicon Valley Moms Blog (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

                                        Mommybloggers Dish with Silicon Valley Moms Blog (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

April 2007

San Jose Mercury News, 4/2/07: Hutchison: Moms need  a break  from studies  and guilt (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

February 2007

Los Angeles Times, 2/09/07: Wake-up call to a.m. news: Moms are tuning out (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

October 2006

Typepad, 10/22/06: TypePad Featured Blog (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

September 2006

The Palo Alto Weekly News, 9/27/06: MommyBloggers go fashionista (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

BlogHer, 9/26/06: Mommies Getting Down in the Valley (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Metro Silicon Valley/Metroactive, 9/13/06:  The Hand That Blogs The Cradle (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

The Palo Alto Weekly News, 9/6/06: Around Town, Strolling into Fall Fashion (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

August 2006

The Palo Alto Weekly News, 8/15/06:  Living In A Bloggers World:  Proliferation of blogs creates new communities within Silicon Valley (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

SFist: , 8/9/06: "Bay Area Blog Round-up" (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

San Jose Mercury News, 8/02/06: "(Sue) Hutchison: Blog world finally gets it: Sisterhood is powerful" (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

July 2006

San Jose Mercury News, 7/28/06 on the BlogHer  '06 Conference: "(Michelle Quinn) Female bloggers revvivng up" (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki , 7/11/06: "Ultimate Mommy Blog List" (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

July 2006 - Ogilvy Blog Feeds - Influential Blogs in the Mom Blog category (Silicon Valley Moms Blog)

Our friends throughout the blogosphere talked about our cross country road trip!

 

• Valleywag:  NBC'S iVillage mommying BlogHer with $5 million

• Guy Kawasaki - How To Change The World: Smart Marketing: Cannonball Run For Chicks

• GM Blogs:  Chevy Road Tippin' To Blogher
• The EVERYTHING Typepad Blog: TypePad Mommy Bloggers Embark on Their Summer Road Trip ’08
• Deal Architect:  Cannonball Run 2.0?
• MomsMinivan.com:  Blogger Mom Road Trip!
• Manafu Blog:  Blogs: Campanie pe bloguri la americani
• Mommyvents: Type A Mom
• Paper Bridges:  Blogher Road Trip: A Fantasy Conversation With My Husband
• Sarah And The Goon Squad:  The Big News
• Parentopia: We're baaaack and then we'll be on the road, but we're taking you with us!
• Seasons For All: Silicon Valley Moms Group - Summer Road Trip '08
• MomViews.net - Mom Bloggers On A Road Trip
• Working Moms Against Guilt:  Queens Of The Road
• Phat Mommy:  Road Trip To Blogher
• Seriously Mama:  Life Is A Highway.......
• A Bushel And A Peck:  DC Metro Moms Must-Know Info.
• Loser Moms:  Psssst.
• Adventures In Juggling:  Road Trip
• Chefdruck Musings: A Few Shout Outs
• BusyBodyBook Blog:  The Silicon Valley MOMS Group Road Trip To Blogher - Off and running.
• Tech Savvy Mama: Heading To BlogHer
• BagMomma:  Coast to Coast: BlogHer or Bust
• Hormone-colored Days:  Mom Road Trip: Astronaut Diapers And Mountain Dew
• Meagan Francis:  if you need me next week, you can try me on my car phone......
• Y&R: Receita de sucesso?
• Bring The Family:  Elsewhere: Mom Road Trip
• Deep Much Big Rake:  Mom Road Trip, aka Devra and Sarah's (and Meagan's and Aviva's and Jill's) Excellent Adventure
• Queen Of Spain: Kicking Off BlogHer: my friends, and Katie Couric
• BlogHer: Katie Couric kicks off BlogHer: Video
• A Parent In Silver Spring:  BlogHer, Katie Couric, Road Trips & APISS
• MOMformation: Mom Road Trip to BlogHer
• Ageless Body/Timeless Mom:  Mommy Blogger Road Trip Shameless Promotion
• Jodifur: It Must Be Said
• Want Sugar: On SV Moms + Katie Couric Video video message
• DVM Moms (District Virginia Maryland): Road Trip: Power of Mommybloggers!
• My Life As It Is:  Road Trip!
• This Full House:  Gone Fishing - Will Be Back Soon, Or Not
• Meagan Francis:  what I'll miss/what I won't
• My Funny, Funny Family: Mommy Playdate
• Kristabella: Full of Snark SInce 1977:  It's A Blogstravaganza!
• Lauren the Cartoon Goddess:  See what other moms do....
• Mother's With Cancer:  Flashes of Hope
• Beneath The Brand:  A Road Trip Worth Taking
• Marketing Mommy:  I won't blubber about BlogHer
• Sellsius:  Blogging Moms Go Cross Country
• Coruja (Parenting)"  Maes blogueiras ganham a estrada
• Ask Patty:  Moms On The Road: From D.C. to Cali
• The EcoChic Organizer:  Mom Road Trip Pit Stop in Chicago
• parentdish (AOL living): Mommy Bloggers Cross-Country Roadtrip to BlogHer

June 2008
MSNBC 5/2/08  Grandparents behaving badly (New Jersey Moms Blog)