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Erica Douglas and Antonia Chitty run together ACE Inspire where you can get online training to help you get your business off the ground. Today they are putting three copies of their book Blogging: The Essential Guide up for grabs. More and more mums are blogging, going online to share their thoughts and experiences and [...]

Mothers have it hard. I believe in a conspiracy theory that we are all injected, at the moment of birth, with something that stops us shouting from the rooftops about just how difficult it is raising children. A friend once told me that being a mother was like climbing Machu Pichu, in blistering heat, with [...]

You must have heard of Pinterest by now? The great way to share the images that inspire you and pass on blogs or websites of interest to others. Alice Langley who writes at An Essex Wife tells how she’s hooked. Before I began blogging as An Essex Wife my social media usage was confined to [...]

Pinterest has exploded recently in popularity and is a great way to share the images that inspire you. But if you’re wondering how to get started, Kelly from Domestic Goddesque is here to help. Here, her tips on diving in and making the most of Pinterest. Pinterest is an online pin board. If you, like [...]

I honestly thought I knew all the linky posts out there. I’ve done the Gallery, I dip in and out of Listography, and I’ve ranted a few times on Dear So and So. Heck, I even participate in several linkys run by newer bloggers – there are great ideas surfacing all the time! So I [...]

It seems I neglected to start a discussion this week over in the forum, so I have no fodder in the form of your wonderful input from which to construct a well-balanced, interesting, topical, thought-provoking post I wondered where all my BritMums emails had gone! So instead I will begin a new topic here, which [...]

Vicki Psarias is an award winning filmmaker and author of the Honest Mum blog. Here she shares her professional tips on vlogging. I really should vlog more. In my day job as a director I’m mostly behind the camera, so I’m used to controlling the action rather than being the action. That said, I’ve done [...]

Knock knock! Who’s there? Fantastic… Fantastic Who? Fantastic new bloggers just for you! Welcome blogging buddies to this week’s Newbie Tuesday, a little slice of weekly newer-blogger love where I highlight some good reads from the past week and share a tip or two. Highlights of the Week I’m not as bendy as I used [...]

The end of the month. The clocks have turned back an hour thus giving us more time to… sleep? dream? iron? stress? blog? We definitely hope that you won’t be using your “extra” hour to iron (we know not what that is in our house!). Perhaps you’d like to use your extra hour to contemplate, [...]

The autumn leaves are falling, the nights are getting darker and the layering of clothes is in full swing. While we’re feeling a bit chilly and getting stuck into our comfort foods and wooly jumpers, this seems like the perfect time to get a bit of blogging warmth with a good old fashioned BlogHop. What’s [...]