31 Jul
When the New York Times placed its piece on the 1,000+ attendees at this year’s BlogHer conference in San Francisco, in the Style section, it got some attention. Amber Naslund, who writes the The Brand Box, thought that the Times’ “Blogging’s Glass Ceiling” article was misplaced. So did many others, as evidenced by the comments [...]
Posted in Business, Editorial, Writing/Editing/Blogging, networking & relationships by: Amy
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30 Jul
Thinking outside the box
In many ways, the WAHM (and WAHD) acronyms have us boxed in — pigeonholed as being involved in sales, home parties, crafts and MLM. Still, even worse, when they see the term “WAHD,” thoughts are often of a guy who has feminized, rather than is a feminist, and is interested in capturing [...]
Posted in Business, Editorial, freelancing, home parties, telecommuting by: Erika
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28 Jul
I’m kicking off this week with a little modified version of link love, to thank those who’ve mentioned theWAHMmagazine or linked to us this past week.
In full disclosure, in some cases, we asked to be included, in others, the writers were kind enough to mention theWAHMmagazine without any prompting from us. In either case, I [...]
Posted in Editorial, Writing/Editing/Blogging, gratitude, networking & relationships by: Erika
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23 Jul
If you are already a business-owning WAHM, we might be preaching to the choir, but if you’re considering becoming a homebased business owner this information may be just what you need to validate your decisions, encourage your project, educate you about some of the pros and empower you to get started. If you’re a hombased [...]
Posted in Editorial, entrepreneurs & business owners by: Erika
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17 Jul
Issue four, the Back to School issue is finally live after many, many, many hours of working on the redesign amidst overlapping deadlines and a rambunctious toddler who feels that this is the perfect time to practice the “terrible twos.”
Here are some statistics about the Back to School issue:
Hours of production: gazillions
Number of articles: 38
Number [...]
Posted in Business, Editorial, Writing/Editing/Blogging, professional development, theWAHMmagaznie Articles by: Erika
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02 Jul
Today, as I worked on the July/August issue of theWAHMmagazine, I received an e-mail from Nancy, one of our contributing writers. (Look for Nancy’s two-part series on the issues of overscheduling in the next two issues of theWAHMmagazine.) Nancy directed me to the Wall Street Journal’s recent blog post in it’s segment The Juggle, “Women [...]
Posted in Business, Editorial, Parenting by: Erika
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