Channeling Stuart Smalley…
Listen up, all you so-called mommybloggers. Enough is enough.
We’ve got advanced degrees. We’ve traveled the world. We’ve got ideas and opinions and stories to tell that - believe it or not - don’t involve poop. We’re more than SAHMs or WAHMs or WOHMs or MILFs or any other acronym. We transcend any label that anyone might apply to us - whether they intend it as a compliment or not.
We’ve posted about how we don’t quite know what to say when people ask, “So what do you do?”
Well, here’s what we do: We write on the web, in a variety of forums, such as… (and this list is a work in progress - tell me who I’ve missed!)
And the one that brought more of us together in one place than any other:
BlogHer - a tremendous movement of women bloggers in all walks of life and in all sorts of professional capacities. Take a look at the list of members, the breadth of the topics on which women are writing, the events and conferences in support of women bloggers.
BlogHer is also capitalizing on advertisers’ hunger for women’s attention (and bloggers’ hunger for additional income), and the latest initiative - public service announcements supporting organizations such as Doctors Without Borders - has reaped unforeseen and hugely admirable results: TheFind.com, a BlogHer sponsor, has begun an advertising campaign to promote their fundraising efforts for Doctors Without Borders. Check my sidebar, and start searching for red items on TheFind.com!
That’s right - our collective efforts as part of the BlogHer Ad Network have inspired one of our sponsors to donate up to $10,000 to a charitable organization, thanks to our public service announcement.
That’s HUGE. And yet it’s only a small example of the power we wield.
This medium is still in its infancy. Whether we are writing about dirty diapers or democratic discourse - and many of us write about both of these, in addition to so much more - we are blazing a trail.
Stay tuned for more trail developments…
December 7th, 2006 at 8:24 am
Hear hear! That is absolutely AWESOME about the donation for Doctors Without Borders.
I’d love to collectively buy a large animal from Heifer.
Crazy/Hip Blog Mamas and Blogging Chicks too.
December 7th, 2006 at 8:48 am
but i liked being a MILF.
oh, who am i kidding. i haven’t been a MILF since i started buying pants from Land’s End.
December 7th, 2006 at 9:11 am
How great! I’ll be clicking.
December 7th, 2006 at 10:34 am
i like being called a MILF thank you very much! lol
December 7th, 2006 at 10:36 am
It’s because people like you are spreading the word that the movement will continue to grow.
Good job Julie.
December 7th, 2006 at 11:30 am
Bravo mothergoosemouse… Thanks for sharing all the links. Isn’t it great that we are all writing! For years it was all about the printed word, and now we have so many forums to spread our creative talents.
December 7th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
COOL!! I was on blogging baby (someone wrote about me) and I didn;t even know it!
I like to be a mommy and a blogger. Hmmm…GO MOTHERGOOSE!
December 7th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
I am planning to post on the new ad for Doctors without Borders too. I think it is awesome. Go US!
December 7th, 2006 at 8:25 pm
you are SO right. I’d love to have DWB at our wedding..
i can only imagine all we are going to do next.
December 7th, 2006 at 10:48 pm
I never knew I was doing all that . . . and I needed a boost today.
December 8th, 2006 at 7:24 am
Yeehaw!
Doctors without Borders is my favorite charity.
December 8th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Being able to raise money for Doctors Without Borders with just the space I inhabit online is something I could have never imagined before I started blogging. To think that my readers are providing help to such an important cause just by clicking a link on my sidebar is mind-boggling.
You’re darn right we’re blazing a trail, just think of what we might be doing this time next year!
December 8th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
I’m roaring. We do rock.
December 8th, 2006 at 10:47 pm
Amen! I couldn’t agree with you more!
December 9th, 2006 at 8:35 am
That is amazing! But I have a really dumb question. What is MILF?
December 9th, 2006 at 8:58 am
Jessica, it stands for Mother I’d Like to F#$%. From American Pie. Crude, but possibly still flattering.
December 9th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
Hear, hear! I agree wholeheartedly and to flashback to my 8th grade graduation theme song, “We’ve Only Just Begun!” Cheesie, yes, but oh so true.
December 9th, 2006 at 6:42 pm
p.s. I love the wisdom of Stuart Smalley…thanks for the SNL flashback!
December 10th, 2006 at 9:23 am
[...] Check out what MotherGooseMouse wrote about BlogHer and the non-profit ads that turned into a fabulous opportunity for everyone. Check out TheFind on my left sidebar and start searching and shopping for “red” items. As one of the BlogHer co-founders wrote: TheFind will donate to Doctors without Borders $1 per day for every search for a “red” item in their search engine. In other words, if you search for “red pancake turner” once day for ten days, you will be responsible for $10 in donations. This campaign will run until the goal of a $10,000 donation for Doctors Without Borders is reached. [...]
December 10th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
Rock on, Mo Go Mo! This is awesome.
December 10th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
AMEN …. and I could not agree with you more! Thank YOU for the wonderful post!
Jill Asher
C-Founder, Silicon Valley Moms Blog
December 11th, 2006 at 7:17 am
hear hear, baby.
December 11th, 2006 at 11:51 am
MotherGoose, you rock star. Thank you so much for this post — and for making the superb point that we can and are change this world for the better. Even as we focus on the little lives in the back of the mini-van.
Amazing — put women like you and everyone else on this list together in a for-profit advertising network and what do we do? We figure out a way to do good and give away $10,000 in vaccinations to people we’ll never meet. (Here’s the back-story about how this whole thing started, for anyone interested.)
Listen up world — I think this group of bloggers has stumbled upon an exciting new business model. You all are the glue.
December 11th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Excellent post - very inspiring!!
December 13th, 2006 at 3:34 am
Indeed, indeed. We can make a difference in every little blogging thing we do.
Thanks for the reminder.
December 16th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
GREAT compilation of the different mom sites. But like I really needed even more addictive stuff to read.
December 23rd, 2006 at 3:36 pm
hi mgm! nice to meet you! i just found your blog + it’s great!
i’ll have to lurk on your site regularly to find out what’s going on in the momblogworld. i’m out of the loop