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Childhood conditions such as chicken pox, croup, slapped cheek and head lice are among the most commonly searched health terms in the children’s health centre of BootsWebMD.com. Would you like to learn more about how to be prepared to manage these conditions? Join BritMums and Dr Rob Hicks (www.drrobhicks.co.uk) on Thursday 17 May from 13:00 [...]

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday 28 March 2012 for the #VirginISA Twitter Party to share your money saving tips – whether it’s while buying big-ticket items or shopping at the local grocery store. #VirginISA Wednesday 28th March 2012 13:00 – 14:00 BST The party is sponsored by Virgin Money Stocks and Shares ISA. When you tweet [...]

Valentine’s Day is coming soon. How are you planning to feel – and give – the love? Candy? Kisses? Comedy underwear? Come share your best ideas for presents and plans, and get inspiration at our #Love4Good Twitter Party today, Tuesday 7th February from 13:00 to 14:00. The party is sponsored by Give as you Live, [...]

Nickie at Typecast is writing a monthly feature for BritMums called Blog Talk. She’ll be sharing the technical side of blogging and where you can find answers to the tricky blogging questions we all have in our heads. We here at BritMums HQ know that the “technical” side of blogging can be a lonely minefield, [...]

Looking at the top of my computer screen, I currently have eight tabs open: Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calender, the Blogger dashboard, two tabs for Facebook (home page, one group page), a Google search page and a forum.  I have Tweetdeck (old version) ticking away at the bottom of the screen and I’m listening to [...]

Welcome back to another round-up of the week’s best posts from new bloggers, and some thoughts from more seasoned writers on getting the Blog-Life balance right. If you haven’t realised it yet, it is all too easy to get sucked into your blog and the community around it, and although we are big fans of [...]

Susie Newday blogs at New Day New Lesson about the lessons life hands her each day and at World Moms Blog. Susie is many things including a wife, mother of five, blogger, oncology nurse, webmaster and Life Coach in training. Mostly though, she is a person just like you who hopes to leave the world [...]

Before it was being blamed for spreading riots or praised for bringing down regimes (neither of which strictly accurate), Twitter was known for the place to get up close and personal with celebrities. From naysayers who moaned they didn’t care what Lily Allen has for breakfast, to those that are gripped on every 140 character [...]

When former MI5 director and current Man Booker Prize judge, Dame Stella Rimington claimed that Twitter and mobile phones were diminishing reading, an age old debate was brought to the fore.  Speaking to the Telegraph, Rimington said: “I think much of the Twittering and emailing and texting and all that sort of stuff that children [...]

The French love to be different, even when it comes to Facebook and Twitter. Read this article by Jamey Keaten of the AP to enlighten yourself. Apparently, broadcast advertisers can’t ask viewers and listeners to “follow us on Twitter” or “like us on Facebook”. It breaks a 1992 ruling for secret and unfair advertising. France’s [...]