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BlackBerry, iPad, or Little House on the Prairie?

May 19, 2011

Do you miss the good old days? Right before BlogHer ’10 last August, I finally exchanged my oldtimer flip phone for one with a camera and Internet access. I wanted to be able to tweet from BlogHer, and I figure it could also help me manage the stream of e-mails I receive during the day [...]

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My $1,100 Thank-You Giveaway For My 10,600 Twitter Followers!

January 20, 2011

Ten days ago I got the idea to have a big thank-you giveaway to show my appreciation for my 10,000 Twitter followers.* I reached out via Twitter and the response was overwhelming: 24 companies donated wonderful prizes worth over $1,100! The power of social media never stops to amaze me and I’m already thinking about [...]

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New York Times: About Monetizing Motherhood and Blogging

November 6, 2010

The New York Times magazine ran an article about mommy bloggers two weeks ago: Monetizing Motherhood. It really only addressed blogging and the money companies are paying some moms to write product reviews and not all the other aspects of monetizing motherhood — books and TV shows come to mind. Most mommy bloggers will at [...]

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Blogging Rocks: Moms Helping Moms

October 30, 2010

One of my blogging friends, Yakini who writes The Prissy Mommy Chronicles, e-mailed me today to let me know she mentioned me in her latest blog post — Breastfeeding Updates + THANK YOU to Two Awesome Bloggers. I’m so honored! How sweet was that. I’m so impressed with Yakini, who is a doctor going back [...]

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Crash of Blog Leads to Dagmar’s Momsense New Look

October 5, 2010

I have a new toy — can you tell what it is? If you follow me on Twitter you maybe saw my frantic tweets a few days ago about ALL my Dagmar’s momsense blog posts, over 300, being gone. I had tried to add another button to one of my pages and for some reason [...]

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Beautiful “Nursing the Future” Breastfeeding Video

June 2, 2010

Once again, I’ve been spending a lot of time on Twitter today — connecting with like-minded people, trying to help out, retweeting informative and funny tweets — and I came across the #holisticmoms Twitter party hosted by @HolisticMomsNet. One of their tweets led me to this beautiful video: Nursing the Future. I just love social [...]

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Mommy Bloggers and Their Depiction in the New York Times

March 17, 2010

At first I wasn’t going to chime in after reading Sunday’s the New York Times article “Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy Building My Brand.” by Jennifer Mendelsohn. Then I read articles responding to it by other bloggers I respect and the many thought-provoking comments that were left. The mommy blogging word in is [...]

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Not Me! Monday: Mismatched Socks and Reheating Coffee

February 15, 2010

I did not wear a white and a black woolen sock to New York City the other day. Uh, yes I did. I was invited by Hasbro to a blogger event before they officially opened their doors for the New York Toy Fair (look out for the extensive blog post on that). I could only [...]

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Blogging Mom Shellie Loses Little Son to Drowning

December 15, 2009

Yesterday a little boy died. He wasn’t even three years old, and apparently he died by drowning in the family’s pool, right in front of his mother’s eyes. I am sick to my stomach about this. I don’t know this family, I don’t know the whole story, but as a mother I can’t even fathom [...]

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“Be The Media” And Make a Living Doing What You Love

November 7, 2009

Are you an entrepreneur, artist, musician, writer, or blogger who wants to make a decent living? You can! I already blogged about how I heard David Mathison speak about using social media to market what you are passionate about and how to use social media to your advantage. In his book, Be The Media, he [...]

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Katonah Green and David Mathison’s “Be The Media”

November 2, 2009

I haven’t had time to write about the Tweetup I attended at a Katonah coffee shop last week. If you know me at all, you know I am addicted to Twitter (yes, I tweeted almost 3,000 times in six months) and social media, and also love coffeehouses, so there was nothing that would have stopped [...]

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Moving With a Toddler — Too Many Boxes, a New Bed, and a Few Tears

September 4, 2009

If you followed me on Twitter, you know that I have been preparing for our move to a new house for weeks. Well, we are finally done moving! There are STILL some things over at the old place, but most everything is at the new house. With the help of our brother-in-law, we got all [...]

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Dagmar Bleasdale Featured as Mom of the Week on NetworkWithMoms.com

August 17, 2009

I am tickled pink: Tatiana, owner of Network with Moms, is featuring me as the Mom of the Week! I even got a badge! See? Network With Moms aims to be the premiere resource for mothers to learn more about social media and networking sites. Ironically, I met Tatiana through Twitter. I am now a [...]

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Win an iPod Shuffle!

August 15, 2009

I love giving away prizes to my readers and new subscribers, so here is the next opportunity: win a silver iPod shuffle (includes shuffle, earphones, and dock)! How to enter: (Please don’t enter any more, this giveaway has expired.) Just subscribe to my blog, DagmarBleasdale.com (see left upper corner). Please make sure I have your [...]