Hi friends! I simply couldn't let one more minute go by without posting and catching up on my friends' blogs. So there I go to Erin's to see what I missed about her family, and see her recap of our cruise vacation together last week. But then her post about Digital Moms got me intrigued, so per Erin's suggested I surfed over to Dooce.com to see what SHE had to say about Twittering and FB'ing moms. (I was of course just waiting for the big controversial oh, moms neglect their kids or oh, moms risk their kids privacy stuff ... and was waiting to see if I had a violent reaction to it, one way or another).
And then I did NOT read that article, but instead got sucked into one of Heather's (many) side advertisements, specifically, this video from the Momversations.com website. The topic? Family dinners.
Now I'm thinking: (a) what do I care about family dinners? (b) what does Miss Heather (who talks politics and depression and "deep stuff") Armstrong care about family dinners and (c) gee the digital mommy advertising revolution really has sort of, well, Madison-avenued out the best and most sincere of us. Momversations? Please.
But then I actually really enjoyed it. I learned of several new mommy bloggers that I might start following - seemingly smart and funny women I wouldn't have known about except for this dumb "ad." (Giyen and Mindy - anyone read 'em?)
I also mostly appreciated seeing how a seemingly commercialized Heather ... agreeing to do this sponsored link (yes I sat through the full 30 second opening of a Target pitch) looked completely uncomfortable and nervous being shot on video. It was sort of reassuring that even as marketers tap bloggers and leverage them for their own purposes, and moms vie to make some money from it (hey more power to ya), real people are still real people ... yes you can use me for it but I can't complete change who I am. Anyway, that's my deep interpretation of a 3 minute web video.
It als reminded me how much I've missed the interweb these last 6? 7? 8? weeks of intense work and lack of life balance. I am enjoying a beautiful sunny Spring Saturday morning view out my back window, drinking my coffee, posting my random and inconsequential thoughts, and catching up on those from my friends - and complete strangers, of course! - from the last month and a half. And just thinking ahhhh ... I'm home.
Next up: a real update on my life.
Aging is for the weak, and everyone else
2 months ago
1 comment:
oh my gosh, i think momversations.com is a brilliant business idea - i remember the first time i saw it (it's linked from tons of blogger websites - another beautiful thing for the biz model) - thinking what a great and different way to bring witty bloggers together and to let them exercise another outlet with video taping themselves on topics they are immersed in anyway.
at first, i was worried that they might be awful, over-kill, make me want to cram a fork in my eye, all-mommy, all-the-time videos, but most of them i've seen aren't boring, but funny and entertaining and a few even make you think about serious issues (although i personally don't like those as much, but there are others who will - so again - brilliant!).
anyway, i always appreciate an out of the box social media marketing idea and this is a great way for them to make money - i bet the advertising alone is making them boatloads and they are entertaining me, so carry on, bloggers, carry on.
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