Listen in- What Do Kids Really Think About Their Working Parents?
Lisa Belkin just blogged about it here.
You can listen to Lisa, Ellen Galinsky and Dr. Joshua Coleman discuss here.
Happy Birthday Beth Kanter
Well, that title sounds like a bromance movie.
But I was inspired by this post from Amy Sample Ward. She wrote:
In her birthday wish post, Beth announces that she’s trying to send 53 Cambodian children to school by raising $530. Last week, Stacy Monk and I were chatting and thought that our community could help smash that goal by raising much more funds as well as awareness for the work the Sharing Foundation does in Cambodia.
How does it work?
We’re hoping to inspire 53 bloggers to publish a post today that shares how Beth has impacted his/her work and shares Beth’s birthday wish with his/her blog audience. (Of course, you’re invited to make a gift to make her wish come true as well!)
What’s the point?
We’re hoping to make her birthday a very happy one by:
1. making her wish come true, and
2. reminding her how much she’s contributed to the community.
I knew Beth Kanter from BlogHer and from blogging in general; I admired how she had developed a singular expertise. Back in 2007 she graciously agreed to let me interview her for a paper I was writing at Harvard on bloggers as entrepreneurs. I had a theory that the most successful and inspiring independent bloggers, such as Beth, were less citizen journalists than they were entrepreneurs, using social media to build their brands and create their own path by which to live and work. Who better embodies this than Beth? She has inspired me and many other women who want to work on their own terms, to do really good work while fighting the good fight. After I wrote my paper and finished grad school, I too started my own business, on my own, working for clients who focused on women in the workplace. In my paper, I called Beth “Betty.” I quoted her,
“Betty, who writes a blog about non-profits and social change, notes that her readers are very
demanding. I asked her why her readers like her: ‘The most important thing is consistency. I hear that a lot from readers — you’re consistent, you’re always right. And if I slack off, my subscriber numbers go down.’”
Beth is disciplined, innovative, and true. Happy Birthday!
My Bday list- My Take on New Year’s Resolutions
Here we are, a new year. In December I was full of appetite. Now I’m full of good intentions. Here are my must-do’s to get healthier and give back in 2010. This list reflects my involvement with the American Cancer Society’s Movement for More Birthdays and my family’s personal experience with cancer treatment this year. I know it’s not enough just to say “I’m going to lose weight and exercise.” What does that really do for my soul? For the soul of my family? I’m trying to be holistic this year. Here goes:
1) Exercise three-four times a week (even it’s just 20 mins- just do it, as they say!)
2) Participate in a Relay for Life in Boston this spring
3) Smile more and laugh out loud each morning. It’s been proven to help– see laughter therapy.
4) Dance with my son everyday around the living room- honestly. He loves it, and it’s good exercise.
This is my “more birthdays list.” What’s yours?
Click here for some ideas and to join the community.
Morra Goes to Washington
This Monday I am traveling to DC to sit down with Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. I will be traveling on behalf of BlogHer.com’s community journalism initiative. I’ll be asking questions from the online community- as well as a few of my own. Please, submit a question by visiting BlogHer.com. You can also watch my interview live online at BlogHer on Monday morning, Dec. 21, at 9:30 am Eastern.
The goal of our community journalism initiative is to foster a frank, open, and civil discussion surrounding the current health care policy debate. We all could use a little more of that right now, so please help me out by entering a question.
Visit BlogHer and submit your question- many thanks!
http://bit.ly/4DY5z1
My prep reading list:
Atul Gawande
Ezra Klein
Julie Pippert
RH Reality Check
David Sirota
The Corner
The Women We Know
I wrote this before the Shriver Report came out- but I think what I’m feeling is universal?
Cross posted from the Huffington Post
We don’t talk about the ways we support each other very often, even though it is so important to recognize. Recently on this blog we’ve debated why women are unhappy. Pollster Frank Luntz told me last night, the majority of “Americans are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore.” Well, yes. We’re unhappy and we’re angry but we want so deeply to connect. Something positive is also happening. It’s happening among American women, and it’s largely happening online in “micro communities,” and then in large gatherings. Micro communities of powerful women are working together on blogs and list-servs to make change happen.
This is our 21st Century consciousness-raising. Women want that kind of collective experience- I saw it last year when 5,000 women swarmed the Boston Convention Center at the Massachusetts Conference for Women. We see it in the incredible popularity of everything Oprah does, and in the success of Maria Shriver’s Women’s Conference. This hunger to take action and make change spans class, race, geography and marital status. And unlike past women’s movements, the ability to make change is more equitably distributed, and that’s because of the Internet.
This week, in the midst of frenzied online organizing to promote gender equity in health care reform, I had a family crisis. And when I had to bow out of action, Jodi Jacobson wrote “Don’t apologize for anything…that’s what a movement is for….”
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/morra-aaronsmele/the-women-we-know_b_321213.html
About Me
Morra Aarons-Mele utilizes social media strategies to help employers, employees and communities connect. She also consults with leading organizations on how women can use the internet for professional and personal development. In her spare time, Morra enjoys blogging about women and politics. Read her full bio >>
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