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BlogHer of the Week: Susan of DC Metro Moms Blog

In her post, "Nailing the New Normal", which was syndicated on DC Metro Moms blog, Susan admits that a fast food restaurant is hardly her first choice of venue, but some parts of life have to give order to accommodate a new, less digestible, truth her ...

From JORY DES JARDINS, BlogHer,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: McDonald's

BlogHer of the Week: Trauma Queen

But Kal, the Scottish paramedic who pens Trauma Queen is the BlogHim of the Week because he's proven that even the mundanities of real-life emergency medicine--the chit-chat between co-workers and the characters encountered in the most public of ...

From JORY DES JARDINS, BlogHer,  2 Nov 2009

BlogHer of the Week: Ivana Kidd from The Phantom Line

To see ourselves like those who love us do: Some of us achieve this, and some of us struggle. Sometimes it's our physical appearance that doesn't stack up, we believe, to being lovable. And sometimes it's a perceived failure deeper within. In her post " ...

From JORY DES JARDINS, BlogHer,  12 Oct 2009

BlogHers of the Week: Lesbian Dad; Spin Me I Pulsate; and Matt, Liz and Madeline

This week we couldn't help but notice a them in some of your recommendations for BlogHer of the Week. As I started to read your posts a familiar, but long tucked away, feeling of grief arose, and I was grateful I wasn't in the office at that moment, ...

From JORY DES JARDINS, BlogHer,  21 Sep 2009

BlogHer of the Week: The Bloggess

One can only imagine the size of the Post-Its in Jenny Lawson's house. Or the size of her cat. Never mind the size of the font one must use to really write the kinds of notes that The Bloggess leaves for her husband, Victor: Dear Victor:  This bath ...

From JORY DES JARDINS, BlogHer,  24 Aug 2009

Twitter Abuse: Microblog Campaigns That Make Me Go ewwwww - Jory Des Jardins - MediaBizBloggers

When I speak with companies I bring along a Twitter slide, much the same way a wedding DJ has to bring along a version of "Play that Funky Music" to gigs. Chances are you are going to get the request, and so you need to be ready. As someone who works ...

From JORY DES JARDINS, Jack Myers,  19 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Jory Des Jardins,  Facebook Inc.

Who Gives A Tweet? Mommybloggers Do. - Jory Des Jardins - MediaBizBloggers

A few weeks back I attended a conference in New York and wondered what was going on at a simultaneous event being held across town. I needn't have worried about missing the details, the attendees at this other event were Twittering their experiences in ...

From JORY DES JARDINS, Jack Myers,  19 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Jory Des Jardins

Avoid "Real-Washing" When Addressing Body Image in the Blogosphere - Jory Des Jardins -MediaBizBloggers

BlogHer Contributing Editor Suzanne Reisman provides a portrait for the Swimsuit Brigade of Honest Photos, a feature she developed to celebrate more realistic representations of women’s bodies in the media. Brands like Dove broke ground by celebrating " ...

From JORY DES JARDINS, Jack Myers,  19 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Jory Des Jardins

Post-BlogHer '09: A Reminder of the Power of Listening to Influentials - Jory Des Jardins - MediaBizBloggers

It's become part of our annual process--the week following the BlogHer Conference, when articles and posts about the event begin to emerge--to take it all in and let it inform our planning of next year's event. And given that we hosted 1,500 bloggers ...

From JORY DES JARDINS, Jack Myers,  6 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Jory Des Jardins,  Twitter Inc

BlogHer of the Week: AV Flox

When we started reading BlogHer Contributing Editor AV Flox's piece on BlogHer.com, "Learning To Fly (Or, "Trying To Date Again After Divorce)", we (or this reader, anyway) expected the usual, trenchant commentary on all things love and ...

From JORY DES JARDINS, BlogHer,  3 Aug 2009

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