Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Reviews and Giveaways Trending out on Mom Blogs?

The Past A year ago when I first started out as a blogger, reviews and giveaways were a staple in the community. In fact, many bloggers were publicly ranked depending on the companies they were touting. Needless to say, influence was quite obvious if you were seen giving away a $600 stroller or a $500...

November 6th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More

The prize for Bloggers and Tiaras announced

Did you think that a crown would be IT? That there would be no other prize of awesomeness for the super elite Bloggers and Tiaras contest that starts next week? Of course not. We will also be hosting the “Peoples Choice” award. Throughout the contest, we will have an ongoing poll so visitors...

November 6th, 2009 | Announcements | Read More

Charlotte says good morning

as she was on her way to school. Appropriately show and tell is about ‘your country’ today. Charlotte wore her daddy’s old BDUs in. I wanted to take this moment to say God Bless all our soldiers and the families that were affected by the Ft Hood Tragedy.While this may be on the news...

November 6th, 2009 | Announcements | Read More

Blogosphere Post of the Day

Goes to this blogger…hit box it to read the whole post…leave her a comment on behalf of women everywhere. ~Trisha

November 4th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More

Bloggers and Tiara’s- Register now!

As a blogger site, I have run a ton of contests and games that have ended up being a blast for visitors and for our community. Aside from the semi-annual Dottie Awards, I have also hosted Americas Next Top Blogger and Blogger Bingo. Keeping with the tradition of a new community game, we are hosting...

November 3rd, 2009 | Announcements | Read More

What sites are in your bookmarks?

I was going through my bookmarks and thought I would share which sites are in mine….maybe a few of these will entertain or help someone. At the very least it may give some incite on what I search on the net. 1) the coolest business cards 2) Phokki – your pictures into art 3) Google Keywords 4)...

November 2nd, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More

This post goes out to the people that say

“Little girls in bikinis do NOT attract child molesters.” “It’s OK for kids to wear thongs.” Some of Today’s Keywords… girls in thongs young girls in thongs 17 year old girls in thongs pictures of girls in thongs showing the front thongs little girl little...

November 2nd, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More

Halloween 2008 vs Halloween 2009

I would say this is an upgrade… Halloween 2008 Halloween 2009 ~Trisha

November 1st, 2009 | General | Read More

MomDot VIP (if you are a member, please read)

I installed a new service on the forum that sweeps the memberships for those not logged in in a specific period of time. I believe it may have deleted some VIP memberships as part of that. If you are subscribed and find your account doesn’t work you have two choices. You can go to your paypal,...

November 1st, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More

Donors Choose

A month or two back we won an iRobot ingenuity challenge contest and were given a $10,000 gift card to help fund individual teacher projects all over the US. I wanted to share some of the feedback of the projects that we funded so you all can know the impact you made as part of this project. I received...

October 31st, 2009 | Announcements | Read More

What do a husband and wife do after the kids are in bed?

And after hanging out every day together for nearly 16 years? Its just sad. Charlotte has zero chance of being normal. ~Trisha

October 30th, 2009 | General | Read More

Support at its finest…

I have no idea why I agreed to do this. This is love. I mean for real mom blogging support love. Do y’all know how expensive eggs are in this economy? Watch the video!

October 28th, 2009 | Announcements | Read More

I usually dont talk about politics

But I could not NOT mention the person that got fired from Home Depot over wearing an In God We Trust pin w/ the American Flag on it to work. I have a message for Home Depot: UNFAIR. DISCRIMINATION. AGAINST. CHRISTIANS. IN. THE U.S. EVERY. DAY. IN. AMERICA. And its getting old. ~Trisha

October 28th, 2009 | Questions And Controversy | Read More

The Dottie Award Winners!

So you all got an extra few days since I unexpectedly left town. I hope it helped some of you rally the votes! Thanks to everyone that donated graphics, voted, tweeted, nominated, and had a great time with our silly awards. Our next awards will be in March! Here are the winners: ——————————————————– Micheal...

October 28th, 2009 | Announcements | Read More

Free Wordpress themes for Mom Bloggers

Trisha has been hard at work again making some more free Wordpress themes for all the ladies out there! You may use and alter as you see fit as long as you do not remove the links in the footer. The Writer No sidebars. Just you and text. Simple and Sweet. Download Demo The Writer, 1 sidebar Download Demo The...

October 26th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More

DOTTIE AWARDS Voting!

And the Nominations are in! I have to find a better way than pouring through 100s of nominations by hand. We need little slips of papers with chads or something. Because it was pretty hard to check mark each nomination and go over and over again, if I saw your name, I most likely put you in the category....

October 25th, 2009 | Announcements | Read More

IMPOSTER! (FNL news, Dottie Award news and more)

Ok, this is Trisha’s blog but she is gone and left me the keys… So I sit here pondering whether or not to cause trouble, since I have been told that I have the sense of humor of a 12 year old boy. Maybe I’ll save my disorderly behavior for tonight’s show. Friday Night Live for...

October 23rd, 2009 | Announcements | Read More

How to make a custom Brush for photoshop (PSD)

If you have photoshop you are already aware of the awesome brushes you can use to customize your online work for scrapbooking, templates, and pictures. There are hundreds of sites online with pre-created brushes like: Brusheezy Lord of Design Brush King But what happens if you want something more personalized...

October 22nd, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More

Comment Love Chat at 9:05 central tonight!

Tonight we are having our 3rd Comment Love Chat! What is comment love chat? We all meet in the MomDot Chat room. We have 10-15 predesigned blogs to visit. Everyone that meets will visit the blogs in a row and get caught up on that persons blog and leave a comment. We generally get from 2-4 comments per...

October 21st, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More

Photo Album

I am still loading it and all that…but if you want to take a look, here is my new photo album online. You can also get there directly by typing in Weaving Charlottes Web at any time. Over the next few weeks I’ll be loading photos you have never seen. Now you have to be nice because not all...

October 18th, 2009 | Announcements | Read More

Comment from little girls in thongs..

Ok, I am liberal. I like to think I am liberal. Nudity doesn’t bother me, I am pro-choice, I could give a poop if someone is smoking marijuana…blah, blah. BUT when it comes to my child, I am super conservative. I am concerned about her choices, her clothing, her safety, her health and why...

October 16th, 2009 | Questions And Controversy, blog | Read More

Out of town and some info..

Those of you that are stopping by wondering where the hell the content is….well, I am going out of town in an hour so there is none. I am heading off to see some layouts of the new house we are building (did i just say layout like I was building a template? I need to get out more) and then to...

October 15th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More

Comment Love Chat tonight at 930pm

This first one was such a big hit, tonight we are having our 2nd Comment Love Chat! What is comment love chat? We all meet in the MomDot Chat room. We have 10-15 predesigned blogs to visit. Everyone that meets will visit the blogs in a row and get caught up on that persons blog and leave a comment. We...

October 13th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More

Free Girly Wordpress Themes

Free Girly Wordpress Themes! I am adding some of the Free wordpress themes I am creating today for you to download. You may use and alter as you see fit as long as you do not remove the links in the footer. 1) Blogger Butterfly Free Wordpress Theme- 3 columns, left and right sidebars, widgetized, fall...

October 12th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More

Free Flower and Butterfly Stock Photos

To add to the free stock photos you may take from my site to use for any of your posts, here are some shots I took at the Seward Farms this weekend. Please note that you can use any of the pictures to illustrate posts or beautify your site (and I would be flattered if you did) but please toss me a link...

October 12th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More

SEO Tips for Bloggers 101

This morning we had our SEO 101 class and I think it went great! We had a lot of material to cover and our 30 minute class went for about an hour (and I even talked fast!). We covered: Basic SEO and your site Importance of Fresh Content Keywords No Follow/Do Follow Image links Deep Linking Link Baiting Article...

October 9th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More

Semi-Annual Mom Blog DOTTIE AWARDS

That’s right, its that time of year again!!! If you are new to our site or haven’t participated before, 2 times a year MomDot runs our version of blogger awards, which we call The Dotties. Every year we theme the awards to make them a lot more fun to play along. Who cares about “best...

October 8th, 2009 | Announcements | Read More

Comment Support Night is Tonight!

This is who I have signed up. YOU MUST HAVE A FORUM MEMBERSHIP because our chat room signs you in based on your credentials. Kristie Cat Brittany The Shopping Mama Lisa Shannon Jacqueline Stefanie Faythe Frantic Holly Kasandria Reasoner Trish Janis @ SneakPeek Dee Cheryl Dee (DeeLan Brandy Betsy Jen Kasey@All...

October 7th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More

Our Community Classes

In response to all the newer bloggers that have been approaching us, starting next week we are hosting a variety of “classes” all month long to help bring support and assistance into our blogging community. ALL SESSIONS ARE FREE, however we do require that you are part of our forums in order...

October 5th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More