MEWSie WENDY SCHUMAN shares: Cafemom, the leading social network for mothers, is launching a few new blogs in the North Jersey area and is looking for local mom bloggers. Please contact Rebecca Phillips at rphillips@cafemom.com if you are interested.
Professionals In Media (PIM) a LinkedIn group is having their annual summer party and you’re invited. It’s Friday, July 22nd from 7 pm to 9 pm at Les Saisons, 304 Elmwood Avenue, Maplewood 07040.
The party will include a panel on blogging, featuring Montclair’s own Janice Harayda of “One-Minute Book Reviews,” recently named one of the best bloggers in the state by N J Monthly, Karen Faxio a blogger for NJ.com/pets and a contributing writer for the Star-Ledger. The panel will be moderated by Michelle C. Hollow, of “Pet News and Views.”
You’ll learn what makes a blog popular, how to grow it and how to make it profitable. And you’ll get to eat, drink, network and have a good time in a beautiful Queen Anne bed and breakfast.
Cost $10, Bring a food item or beverage to share. RSVP to Jacqueline Herships at 973-763-7555, jacqueline@jacquelineherships.com or Michelle Hollow at michele@petnewsandviews.com.
Are you passionate about something in Montclair? Contact us! Whether it’s food, family, schools, government, business, social issues, exercise, fashion or business—if it’s your thing, we’d like you to consider blogging for Patch. Anyone may apply.
I am specifically interested in talking with:
* Musicians, Live Music Fans, Audiophiles and Artists
* Parents, High School Students, Teachers and Professors
* Fashion Experts, Stylists and Crafters
* Volunteers and Nonprofit Workers
* Health and Fitness Experts
* Local Sports Fans
Don’t be shy! Montclair Patch is on a mission to recruit fresh voices, and this is a great opportunity to make your voice heard. We want to hear what you have to say.
Patch bloggers are not paid and will own their blogs, so if you are already blogging and want to share with our readers, too, let us know. This is a chance to share your expertise and opinions with a fast-growing and wider audience!
Contact editor Shelley Emling at Shelley@patch.com if you are interested in being a part of the conversation.
It all begins May 4—when Montclair Patch will be making room for local bloggers on the site.
New York Webgrrls is sponsoring a full-day workshop on how to use wordpress to set up your blog and/or run the content management system for your website. This is the workshop you need if you want to move your writing online and don’t know how to manage the technical side. Here’s more on the workshop: https://www.webgrrls.com/events/:367
Novelist and MEWSie Lisa Dale has posted a free, 30-page e-book for novelists/authors on her Web site: www.LisaDaleBooks.com.
10 SIMPLE FACTS THAT CAN MAKE OR BREAK YOUR AUTHOR BLOG. So many of us are instructed that starting a blog is an easy way to publicize a novel. But for many writers–and most especially for creative writers–blogging can be challenging. If you’re writing a blog about “sneakers,” the way that you go about reaching your audience of sneaker-lovers is rather straightforward. But when you’re a novelist…well…the strategies for blogging aren’t so clear. This e-book offers important tips for creative writers on the best way to start and grow a blog, how to reach more readers, how to inspire readers to comment, and much more.
“Finding Josephine,” the year-old blog written by MEWSie Dionne Ford, was just nominated for Family Tree Magazine’s 40 Best Genealogy Blogs. Voting has begun and continues through December 20th at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ft40-2011voting. Winners will be announced in the magazine’s July 2011 issue.
Pam Satran is doing a webinar this Wednesday, July 14, from 1 to 2 pm online at shewrites.com on How To Turn Your Blog Into A Bestseller. Satran, whose blog How Not To Act Old was published as a book by Harper Collins last summer and became a New York Times bestseller, will cover everything from how to launch your blog to where to publicize to how to create your book proposal to tips for making it a bestseller. The webinar includes a lecture, q & a, and downloadable power point.
As Managing Director of www.circlesofmontclair.com, I would like to invite Mews members to check out this new site that combines a local, social network with a virtual lifestyle guide to Montclair and the the surrounding communities. We want to bring stories of human interest to area residents, provide up-to-date event listings, and create a platform where businesses, restaurants, authors, musicians, artists and more can connect with a local audience. Take a look and feel free to create a personal page, a business page or create a group of interest to you. Hope to see you there!
MEWSie Mike Laser has just unveiled a new website: News-Basics, a source of
concise background information on major news stories. It’s aimed at young
people and adults who want to know more about how we got into Iraq and
Afghanistan, what globalization is all about, what stem cells are, etc.
Here’s the link: http://news-basics.com/
Mike is planning to publicize the site to teachers, and also hopes that
parents of adolescents will share the site with their kids. He asks that you
spread the word to anyone you think might like the site.
A blog by MEWSie ELLEN SEIDMAN, To The Max, won Best Special Needs Blog in thebump.com’s Mommy Blogger Awards. Writes Ellen: “I’ve been doing my blog, To The Max, for just over a year now. It’s a blog about life with my little boy, Max, who had a stroke at birth that resulted in cerebral palsy. I started the blog because I thought it would be cathartic. I also wanted to inspire parents of babies with delays and special needs because those can be the hardest years. Since starting the blog, I’ve met hundreds of moms with kids who have special needs. I’ve gotten amazing support, laughed a lot and learned a lot, too; one of my blog readers told me that Duke University was doing stem cell infusions for kids with cerebral palsy. We did that for Max this summer.
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