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    How Motherhood Is Changing Dramatically—in 11 Graphs

    Tuesday, May 14, 2013

    Modern motherhood has changed dramatically over the course of just a few generations. Take a look at this information The Atalntic compiled on how everything from education to marital status has changed for many American mothers. Image credit Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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    Mom Blogging for Good Karma

    Wednesday, May 8, 2013

    Below is an excerpt of a piece Morra wrote for the Huffington Post in response to the Wall St. Journal‘s recent article on blogging conferences — or, as they refer to it as — the “mommy business trip”. In 2007, I agreed with the Wall St Journal’s take. As a longtime but hardly famous blogger, I felt [...]

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    Modeling Joy

    Tuesday, May 7, 2013

      The following is an excerpt of a piece by Morra that appeared on The Accelerators blog on The Wall Street Journal online. When I say “working mother,” what image pops into your head? It’s probably not a joyful one. It’s probably a stressed out, barely holding it together mom on the run. Close your [...]

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    We the [Online] People: What Marketers Need to Know about Civic Action Online

    Thursday, May 2, 2013

    The ways in which people activate around social and political issues is changing. Between the explosion of online fundraising that started with former Governor Howard Dean in 2000, to Presiden Barack Obama’s mastery of social media beginning in 2012, the last decade and half has shown how the internet can inform how political campaigns are [...]

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    7 Blogger Outreach Best Practices All Inbound Marketers Should Know

    Thursday, May 2, 2013

    The following is an excerpt of a post by Lisa Gulasy at Kuno Creative. Check out Rachel’s suggestions best engaging with bloggers. Inbound Marketers can utilize blogger outreach to help achieve a number of objectives. Want to position your company’s CEO as an industry thought leader? Contact a mainstream media blog and offer him as an expert source [...]

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Aug
6

Amazing Day: American Cancer Society Blogger Meet-up

Audrey McClelland wrote this piece for her blog, Audrey Confidential, after attending a blogger meetup hosted by the American Cancer Society. This is just another example of how proud we are of the amazing women we get to work with every day! Cancer touched my family this past year through my husband. It has been quite the roller [...]

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Aug
2

Banked Human Milk: Medicinal “Liquid Gold”

The following is a post by Nancy Holtzman, Vice President at Isis Parenting, leading Clinical Content. You can visit Isis Parenting on the web and in person.  Once each week, I take off my “VP” hat at Isis Parenting and become a nurse and lactation consultant once again. I live in a world of babies, moms, breasts and precious [...]

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Aug
1

Blogust is here!

Blogust is here! From now through August 31, 31 fabulous bloggers will be telling the story of what inspires them. Blogust is a first-of-its-kind blog relay for good that is bringing together 31 of the most influential online voices in the country to change the world through blogging. Each day throughout the month of August, one influencer [...]

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Jul
30

Connected, powerful 21st-century moms

Below is an excerpt of an article that appeared on boston.com by Melissa Schorr. We encourage you to read the full piece here. IN JULY 2010, Elizabeth Gomez, a mother of three from Medford, had just finished her workout at Woburn’s North Suburban YMCA and went to pick up her kids from the day-care room. When she [...]

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Jul
26

The Luxury of Forgetting

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting pieces from our Founding Mission List Members. Every day, these women are using their influence to shape their communities and create positive change at home and abroad. The below post is from Cynthia Changyit Levin. I have a confession. I’m a loving mother of two, but I [...]

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Jul
18

On Connecting the Dots

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting pieces from our Founding Mission List Members. Every day, these women are using their influence to shape their communities and create positive change at home and abroad. The below post is from Jen Barth. I’m writing this from an airplane ride back from the East Coast, returning [...]