The Philosophies of MomDot

What is MomDot?

First and foremost, MomDot is my personal blog. I wanted to have a place where blogs could come together and meet up. Simply put, I’m lazy and wanted y’all to come to my spot and enticed over 600 of you by listing your links and giving you love on a monthly basis with interviews and links and all that good stuff. I hate to be lonely, so I’m glad you made it. Second, I managed to talk two my best friends into helping me and spending 20 hours a week on something I  barely can pay them $20 a week for. *hehe* I’m starting to think they are gluttons for punishment.

How do you keep your reviews and contests straight?

During our launch party, we found ourselves getting overrun by contests (and with good reason), so I was able to find a template to keep them a bit separated from our main content, which I love and it helps me run contests and reviews while still being able to reach out on other ideas not mixed in and forgotten I think its a great idea to keep spreading knowledge about amazing mom companies and of course products from the largest companies, all while keeping up with our regular content! Plus, we have been able to give back and reward so many of our visitors. Today we pulled a stroller that went to a very deserving foster mom and its stories like that that keep me plugging on. I don’t really want to turn into a review blog, so I try to spread out who takes the reviews that are offered to momdot, so I don’t get stuck doing most of them. Its nice to have so many that are better at this reviewing thing then me, willing to put their opinion out there for our visitors! Upcoming reviews with dyson, Kristen Andrews, Scrapbooking programs, anti aging lotion, and more!

How did you get started?

I have worked with online forums, chat rooms, building websites and doing SEO for  real estate companies, as well as, building online boutiques for women, for almost 5 years. I started in college with an online forum, had a website way back then, and my knowledge has blossomed for over 10 years. For awhile, I thought I would end up in website design! I had a website that I constantly changed the material, ran interviews and games, and a blast with, but the HTML format was difficult to change on a daily basis.  I also ran a website for my daughter with videos and updated pictures, but again, harder to update. I then started running a blog instead, but found it too much to keep up as one person. I like a community feel where more then one person is involved in helping. Its a great feeling to exchange knowledge in a free base area where everyone has something valuable to put forth! I soak up things like a sponge from people I am surrounded by daily.

Who works for momdot?

Here on momdot, we have approximately 10 girls (and 2 guys) that contribute on a weekly to biweekly basis, and an entire forum that assists with article ideas, questions, interviews, graphics, and more. We truly are a self contained world. Almost every graphic you see on MomDot was completed someone in our blogging community. Alicia, Bridgette, and I all specialize in something weekly that needs to be done, but we also work interactively and if someone needs something and doesn’t have time, the other person picks up the slack-no questions asked. Its great! I am going on a trip and get to hang with alicia in Disney world in 2 weeks. WOO HOO!

What is momdots goal?

While my intentions were to only do listings and features in the beginning, with “how to” articles in between, I soon realized i have a lot to say, and wanted to get to know you, to become and actual part of the community and I changed where MomDot was going and made it much more personal. As you can see, we often put upwards of 10 articles a day up we have so much to say!  We have proudly listed over 600 blogs in the past three months, in a LARGE part by a HUGE amount of people helping that out, and have done countless interviews with bloggers and boutiques alike, we find that our most popular articles are everyday mom experiences, rants, raves, and family time. We have a great time joking, playing, and interacting on a daily basis with our users! Whats great is if you want a more personalized experience, you can just join us on the forum and get to know us as friends too! Blogs are notoriously independent and a one person deal and that is NOT the kind of thing I wanted. I wanted a Blorum or maybe a Blogum (my new word for blog/forum).

Where do you get your ideas?

I have a business blog and have been sharing ways to create a business over there for a long time and have written countless articles about hosting, website naming, creation to completion in business and blogging, running online forums, and more. I am so glad that this blog has given me an arena to dig out those old articles and brush them up with current material,  and put them in front of new eyes!

There is a ton of great ideas out there on blogs and website all over the net, and we are proud to bring you our 2 cents when we can. And we also take a TON of our ideas straight from our forum where we see what issues day to day bloggers and moms have. They ask a question and we say…hey, we will blog it for you!

Who are your idols?
Absolutely 5 minutes for Mom. They are an inspiration and I really admire them. Not only for who they are, but for what they have done in the blogging community. I also have everyday idols from bloggers i meet on a day to day basis that help keep me grounded, teach me things, and share ideas unselfishly and as a community. I couldn’t thank them all in one spot, but I would like to give a shoutout to Kim, Cat, Yasmine, Trisha, Leah, Jenna, Rachel…you get the point. LOL

How do we get involved?

There is info all over our site on how to get listed, get a feature on our site, or simply join our forum to chit chat! This week we have a blog party and its going to be a TON of FUN and we want you to come back and share all your holiday memories with us (starting wed! Yikes!). If you have someting you want to write for us, an article or expertise, just hit me up. The best way is to join our forum so we can get to know you and you us.

And please, if you haven’t already, take one of our banners and become a MomDot girl too! Thankyou for making us so welcome and we hope we continue to bring you ideas, sponsors, articles, and friendship you want to come back to day in and day out.

~Trisha

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