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Video blogging. Two words that seem to be able to strike fear into the hearts of even the most seasoned bloggers. We’re constantly being told that video blogging (or vlogging) is the Next Big Thing, yet at the same time many people find it hard to put themselves in front of the camera and get [...]

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 [...]

Last week a group of bloggers got together in London’s West End on a Friday night to meet in person, have a drink and chat about everything from NaBloPoMo to, er, other topics. Actually Mummy documented the event on her video camera At the 2:45 time mark, that’s BritMums co-founder Jennifer on the right. Actually [...]

Last week’s “What’s in your handbag?” was a popular topic it seems! We’re so pleased! Getting in front of the camera (or behind in some cases) isn’t so terrible is it? This week we’re setting you a bit of a “How To” challenge. Are you up for it? As we all know, Christmas is JUST [...]

The mornings are slightly brighter but that won’t last too much longer. The night starts closing in around 4:30pm at the moment which makes our evenings seem rather long. It’s Autumn in the UK! Don’t you just love it?! While the leaves are quite pretty, this begins the Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) season and we [...]

Maggy Woodley from Red Ted Art is one of the two super-crafty BritMums leading our Big App Challenge in association with Kodak. In her first video post, Maggy shows that uploading images to blow up to enormous sizes is so easy that you can even do it with a lap full of kids… To watch [...]

Who’s ready for a bit of Video Blogging this week? We’re loving the fact that we’ve had a few “newbie” video bloggers throwing caution to the wind and giving video blogging a go. It’s not so very scary after all! On the NEW and IMPROVED BritMums network, it’s really easy to upload your videos to [...]

Right! We’ve been talking about it all year long and we’re going to highlight it today. What, might you ask, am I on about? VIDEO BLOGGING!!! It’s taking the US Blogging Community by STORM! It’s slowly but surely creeping into the UK Blogosphere and we want to step it up a notch! You’ve got nothing [...]

There’s no business like show business like no business I know! But our video bloggers ask if it is the right kind of business to be encouraging your child to tap dance, warble or pantomime their way into? Like Ruth from geekmummy.com asks, why would you encourage your child into showbusiness any more than accountancy [...]

Those of us with school age kids and kids back in childcare are just about rumbling into a post-summer routine around now. Some of us have the house back in the daytime, some of us are finding our groove again in the workplace, and now, perhaps.. just maybe… we can snatch a little bit of [...]