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My two year blogging anniversary is today. Blog years are like dog years— two must be at least six or seven, right? Because it seems like forever.
When I started out, I had no idea where I wanted blogging to lead, other than that I wanted a modern sort of baby book for my kids. I [...]

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I’m speaking next weekend at Bloggy Boot Camp, hosted by the amazing girls over at SITS. I’ll finally be meeting friends that I’ve been communicating with for (what seems like) ever. One of them has kept me laughing for the past two years and another one will even be staying with me. {Yay for blogging [...]

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Do you have a Facebook fan page? I do, I do! It took me way too long to build, but now that it’s up and running, I’m so glad that I took the time to put it together. What’s so great about it, you ask? Well, first of all, when people fan your page, it [...]

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Blogging with WordPress

November 29, 2009

It seems that lots of my Blogger friends are taking the leap into WordPress these days. My move was almost a year ago, and I am finally feeling at home in this little WordPress world. Since every week I am telling somebody else what theme or plug-ins I use, I thought it easiest to just [...]

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I love comments. I crave comments. The little ding my e-mail makes when I have a new one has me dashing to the computer to see who said what. It’s flattering to have people react to the words you’ve written or parts of you that you share. Any blogger who claims not to care about [...]

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Twitter is hot.  If the internet were high school, Twitter would totally be the knock-out cheerleading prom queen. You can’t turn on the news without hearing requests to Twitter the station your thoughts. Stores offer Twitter only discount codes. There’s the CNN/Kutcher race to gain a million followers. There’s Hugh Jackman’s promise to donate 100k [...]

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Making Your Blog into a Book

January 23, 2009

My purpose in starting Scary Mommy was to create a baby book of sorts for my kids. I am not the type of mother who jots down first words, steps or foods, and my memory cannot be counted on to remember anything. I have to force myself to print pictures, and despite loving crafts I’ve [...]

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