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Join some of the nation's top mommy bloggers for spirited play date! The panelists will take on big questions, like how much of family life is fair game on a blog and whether or not blogging impacts life at home. We'll discuss, debate and learn about what makes a great mommy blog and will touch on business opportunities for blogging stay-at-home moms.
Danielle Christopher
Danielle is a stay-at-home mom with two daughters, ages one and three. She lives with her family in Langley. She is a student of The Momoir Project--an organization that helps moms tell their stories--and is a member of its blogging and tweeting team.
Danielle also write book reviews for Women's Post web site and is a self confessed Twitter addict.
Manda Aufochs Gillespie
Manda Aufochs Gillespie is a consultant, writer, environmentalist, and mother. In 2007, Manda founded The Green Mama LLC (www.thegreenmama.com) to bring green living information to parents and businesses. In 2009, she expanded the business to include other green mama helpers and to cover the West Coast and parts of Canada. The popular Green Mama Blog has been syndicated in Chicago and Canada and The Green Mama can also be found on Twitter, Facebook, Chicago NOW, and the Vancouver Observer. When she's not writing, Manda can be found riding her bicycle with her daughter at the helm, carrying home food from the local farmers market, while talking on her phone about the merits of cloth diapering.
Harriet Fancott
Harriet Fancott is a writer, webmaster, arts administrator and blogging and Twitter enthusiast. She is mother to Theo, nine months, who was adopted at birth in a local, transracial, open adoption. She blogs on her personal experience as an adoptive parent and is interested in the larger issue of identity as it relates to family, biology, culture and society. You can find her blog at http://seetheorun.wordpress.com.
Lesley McKnight
Lesley McKnight is a freelance writer, wife, and mother of three children. She started blogging consistently when a friend gave her a domain name as a gift to celebrate the birth of her third baby in 2006.
Her family blog started as a fun project and has become a simple source of pleasure for her, and future source of embarassment for her children.
Kerry Sauriol
Having discovered that children don’t give annual employee evaluations, Kerry Sauriol jumped at the chance to be a stay-at-home mom. Now, with three kids, Kerry’s hold on sanity is her computer and the world of mommy bloggers. Crunchy Carpets (http://www.crunchycarpets.com) is where she shares her life and parenting experiences. She created Wet Coast Women (www.wetcoastwomen.com) to discuss everything west coast and build up a community for women bloggers. She also a contributer at Canada Moms Blog (www.canadamomsblog.com).
Amber Strocel
Amber Strocel is an all-around crunchy granola mama to two kids. She worked for ten years as an engineer, but following a lay-off she traded that in for the glamorous life of a thirtysomething suburban mom. Now she's just trying to decide what she really wants to be when she grows up. In her extremely rare and precious free time she grows vast quantities of cucumbers, attempts handcrafts and eats rather a lot of chocolate. She chronicles her journey on her blog at http://www.Strocel.com, which she has been writing since May 2003. Through blogging, she has found inspiration and support as her life heads off in a new direction. It's made her believe in the power of social networking to bring people together.
