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Gosh, your so annoying.
By annoying I mean = I’m totally jealous.
But aside from being jealous, is Dooce the best representation we can find for the new digital age of mom media? She has 178,000 followers on twitter……and she follows 66 people.
Yep, she is totally immersed in social media, let me tell you. She is more a celebrity then a mom of today’s regular age that battles Iphones, twitter, facebook, Ning sites, radio shows, and stickam. It’s like bringing in Perez Hilton to talk about celebrity blogs. Basically, they may be winning the race, but they dont represent the people.
I would have much rather seen one of these Top Mom Bloggers of 2008 on TV.
And does anyone else think that CafeMom isn’t really a true community? Its too big. I signed up and never went back. I just don’t get how you can form any real relationships there. Not to point it out, but Club Mom was STARTED by Meredith Viera, which launched into CafeMom. So basically she just did a show on her own community. Where was the journalistic integrity? I noticed she didn’t mention it at all.
~Trisha
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The interview wasn’t all about Dooce, although she was the most well-known blogger on the show. The video featured one blogger in particular who is awesome – Ali Crumley or @mrscrumley on Twitter. Check her out!
I thought it was a crappy representation of we blogging mama’s too! Great post and while I am typing- thank you for your PR file. Since I joined that I am getting a lot of attention from PR reps and I really appreciate the effort you put into making blogging successful for all of us (little fish in Dooce’s pond LOL)!
Trisha, you are right that mom bloggers should have been better represented… and Dooce does not connect with her readers or any social media networks (that I know of). I do enjoy her writing very much, she has a way with humor… one of the reasons I enjoy you so much – you are very entertaining (and I mean that as a compliment).
Honestly, the Today Show segment was horrible, imho. It didn’t explain what mom blogs really are (and I think there are lots of different styles/types of mom blogs). If I had little to no blogging knowledge I would not have learned a thing from the segment.
Ok if I want to read good content from Dooce, I go to her archives. She quit putting out good content about 2 years ago honestly. But if you go back that far, there’s some great stuff to be read.
I’m quoting someone else but I won’t say who because she might not want to re-live the whole saga but someone once compared Dooce to Santa Claus as in..not real, just some fictional storybook person that people tell you about, you know, the tooth fairy.
She obviously does something right and I’ve never seen her speak in person but apparently she is a good speaker. The interviews I’ve seen on TV and on Momversation were not good at all. But, I do think she is more comfortable when she is just talking (a la writing on her blog with no communicating with outsiders) than being interviewed (i.e. having comments open).
Again, I’d love to think that I made enough money online that my husband could quit work and tend to part of my blogging business and then start his own business doing what it is he does best. But, honestly, I don’t see that happening.
Statistically, she is an elite blogger and when I looked up bloggers, in detail and by specific categories, I managed to be considered in the top 10% as far as money makers among female bloggers. And, I have 12 blogs, so heck, surely I could at least get a little bit of credit, lol. Now, that’s quite hysterical because I barely make anything. That just goes to prove that the Dooce and Pioneer Woman bloggers of the world are not that easy to come by. And, any blog with multiple authors can’t be put in the same category because there’s a lot of difference in one person pumping out content everyday (and pumping out content for 8 or 10 blogs every day) versus pumping out one post a week or every two weeks while other authors do some of the work.
So, you gotta put it all in perspective and decide, who is Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy? Really.
Yea. I think she got her fame long ago. She got a little more fame after the birth of her daughter and all that went along with that. But really, she doesn’t post that much. Mostly she offers herself out to be an expert on everything.
@ Danielle:
I respectfully disagree. I do like DOoce. I have even done an Ode to Dooce on this page. However, she is an online celebrity..she is not part of the social media online blogger movement. I dont believe she, or cafemom, were carefully written stories that actually appeal the mass audience of what twitter moms, blogher, mom bloggers club, MOm Blog Radio, mom central, mom select, etc. are in the actual integrated mom2.0 community. If a non online mom were watching that segment, they would not hop online and find Dooces to hang out with…therefore they needed someone on there to tell it like it really is.
For example, Blogher’s Elisa is out there ALL the time. She personally answers emails if you email her. They have something insane like 4 million visitors a month and I always get an email back from her if I inquiry. Because she is involved, I would respect her in a newstory because she relates to what we do.
I cant hate Dooce for being “popular”, because she ISN’T involved in one thing I do online. It would be like hating Tom Cruise for being an actor.
You can’t possibly reciprocate when you have 170k+ twitter followers and millions of readers. I think she’s being honest- if she follows 66 people, she probably really keeps track of what they’re saying. I have 600 followers and follow 200+ but am going to have to cut down because I can’t literally follow conversations. When you reach such critical mass, you really can’t have conversations with everyone.
I think you would like Heather/Dooce a lot more if she wasn’t so popular. It’s really easy to hate the popular girl especially when you aspire to her throne.
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I agree you that she is famous, but she isnt an online social media mom blogger. She got famous for getting fired over blogging about her coworkers….not over her amazing content. LOL
Hmmmm…I think I’ve read her blog once. I’ll have to go back and check it out…but ya gotta admit, she’s definitely got “something” going on if she is that popular.
I definitely enjoy reading “the little guys”.
I like Dooce. She usually cracks me up in her entries. I just get irritated when she has comments closed on her entries. Sometimes I want to comment but I can’t because UGH, she’s closed comments.
I have no opinion of her, but, seriously, I think blogging is all about being reciprical, right?
And, that woman breastfeeding and blogging…that’s me…except I pump, too!
Ugh, I think Dooce is totally overrated. And she looks constipated.
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Didn’t watch it and I don’t care. I would rather go to blogs that are about moms that I can relate to . Ones that go through the same things I do with my life and kids.
I don’t think Dooce gave a good interview, she sounded stiff and didn’t have a conversational tone. Plus I had to snicker when she said that she “connects” ummm yeah I totally see you around on forums.
I am personally a HUGE fan of Babyfit.com I have actually made friends there rather than having to deal with the drama on Cafe Mom.
Yeah I am totally over Dooce. I’ve never been a big fan but after trying to read her site every day for a couple of months I realized that I just didn’t relate to her at all. And I didn’t even like her. She’s not a mom that I would hang out with in real life so, as you say Trisha, she’s not a good representation. I like to read the blogs of moms that I really care about, the ones that I would invite over to my house if they ever came to Orlando.
Wow, thanks for sharing I missed this.
Since WHEN is Cafe Mom the voice of Moms? I’m so absolutely po’d with the coverage we get. Every year around time for BlogHer this crap comes out. Enough already, the press needs to cover the REAL moms!
See, i dont love her or hate her really. I just think she isnt really a mom blogger.
I agree about Cafe Mom. I have friends who have nothing but bad experiences with it.
Love Dooce or hate her, one thing’s for sure: she always gives a great interview!