Next Parents’ Forum: The Power of the Mummy Bloggers
5 May 2011
The mumsnet phenomenon has been discussed extensively. mumsnet was seen as the kingmaker in the last election.
A Save the Children initiative in Bangladesh invited three mums who are the leading ‘mummy’ bloggers to go along and see work they had done there and discuss it in their blogs. NSPCC are a sponsor of netmums.
The three bloggers the Save the Children charity invited were:
- Josie George www.sleepisfortheweak.org.uk
- Sian To, who also runs a parenting PR company www.mummy-tips.com
- Social media consultant Eva Keogan: www.nixdminx.com.
We are very fortunate to have one of the leading Mummy bloggers introducing this discussion – Jennifer Howze.
Jennifer Howze is a journalist with more than 20 years’ experience. She is the co-founder of CyberMummy, the UK’s only conference for parent bloggers, and the partner in charge of content for the British Mummy Bloggers social network, which has more than 2,000 blogger members. Previously, she was the online lifestyle editor for the Times and editor of its Alpha Mummy blog. Jennifer has written for publications in the UK and America including The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Independent, CNN.com, Conde Nast’s SELF magazine, Travel + Leisure, and Frommer’s Budget Travel, among others. Her work has been included in two books, Standing Up to Supernanny and Budget Travel’s Secret Hotels.
Forum details:
Date: 5th May 2011
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Venue: Contact Jane for details of the venue in Central London.
parents@instituteofideas.com
I think that this discussion is very important because parenting can be an isolating experience. I didn’t have a mum, but I could see that even those who did often felt very alone because, unlike our own parents, many of us have moved miles away from where we grew up.’