Speakers
Here is our fabulous speaker lineup!
Angie Arthur – @angiearthur
Angie Arthur is a happily married mom of four and the owner of Angie Arthur Photography. She is a self-taught, natural light professional photographer who specializes in capturing natural, candid moments in a unique, beautiful way.
Angie is also the co-founder of I Heart Faces LLC, a photography web site that has fun weekly photo challenges, tutorials and photo tips for beginners. You can find her almost daily on her personal blog, The Arthur Clan, where she writes about humorous situations she and her family get into and where she showcases her photography sessions.
Sarah Bane – @sarahviola
Sarah’s a lover, a fighter and a designer, trying to balance on that fine line between motherhood and work-at-home-motherhood. A graduate of a Big Ten University and tiny private art college, she comes to the party with over ten years of experience in art direction and marketing. You can read Sarah’s infrequent ramblings at sarahviola.org and catch her in bits and pieces on Twitter as @SarahViola.
Dan Barber – Dan Barber Linked In
Dan Barber is a senior partner with Fleishman-Hillard public relations and a former TV anchor/investigative reporter who also served as a spokesperson for three different governors. Now in his 17th year with FH, Dan is recognized as one of the firm’s leading media trainers and has worked on effective message delivery with several CEOs as well as numerous celebrities and athletes ranging from Patrick Dempsey to Michael Phelps to the U.S. Ski and Snowboard team. He heads the FH Sacramento office (www.sacfoodies.com) which specializes in food marketing and leveraging social media as an effective public relations tool.
Mary Anne Beasley – @thestilettomom
Mary Anne is a 20 year veteran of advertising sales. Leaving traditional media behind, in 1997 she took a job with a start up no one had ever heard of, Yahoo. Even though her friends laughed at her, she thought this online thing might just catch on. Today she is one of the top salespeople at Glam Media and specializes in work with Fortune 100 companies. Mary Anne started her personal blog, The Stiletto Mom, in August of 2008 as a way to better understand the workings of the blogosphere and it now serves as an outlet and a chronicle of her insane life as a career mom in very high heels.
Kristen Berman – Intuit
Kristen Berman is a product manager for Intuit’s Small Business Group. She is currently tasked with improving first-use for online accounting, so has made it her mission to improve the bottom line for small businesses using QuickBooks Online and Billing Manager. Prior to this role, Kristen launched two other web products as a product manager, and also worked in marketing and corporate strategy at the company.
Previously, Kristen started and ran her own business for three years – netNerds, a service that connected computer tech experts with people who need their help.
Kristen graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently lives in San Francisco.
Maya Bisineer @thinkmaya
Paula Bruno – @paulabruno
Paula Bruno recently joined Intuition Marketing/One2One Network as President and has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to help make BlissDom’10 a success this year.
She has over two decades of business experience. In 1996, she co-founded United Rentals, Inc., the world’s largest equipment rental company. She specialized in strategic planning, risk analysis, financial analysis, and public relations.
She is an aspiring blogger and blogs at http://chicksandbalances.com although she hasn’t had time to update since BlissDom planning began. Her passion is women’s and girl’s economic empowerment. She lives with her husband and two amazing daughters in New Canaan, Connecticut.
Holly Buchanan – @hollybuchanan
Holly Buchanan is the co-author of The Soccer Mom Myth – Today’s Female Consumer, Who She Really Is, Why She Really Buys. She runs her own marketing to women consultancy helping companies and individuals communicate more persuasively with their customers.
With almost 20 years of marketing experience, Holly has worked with hundreds of clients including brands like Waterford, GE Healthcare, HP, Genworth Financial and 1-800-Flowers.
Holly Buchanan is a popular speaker, blogger and author. In addition to The Soccer Mom Myth, she has her own blog – http://marketingtowomenonline.typepad.com, and is a guest columnist at www.reachingwomendaily.com.
Dawn Camp – @dawnMHSH
Dawn is a Christian homeschooling mother-of-eight; Photoshop and Lightroom enthusiast; photographer; web designer; and evangelist for NAPP (the National Association of Photoshop Professionals) for the demographic of stay-at-home moms, bloggers, designers, digital scrap bookers, and homeschoolers.
Kelby Carr – @typeamom
Kelby Carr is a writer, SEO diva, a pioneer of the social mom blog, social media consultant and former investigative newspaper reporter turned new media mom. She is the publisher of a network of parenting social sites, including Type-A Mom, Foodie Mama and momShare. She is the founder and hostess of Type-A Mom Conference, and operates a service to connect mom bloggers and companies in an ethical way, Momtent. She’s been geeking it out on computers since she was 10, social networking online since the 1980s, web publishing since the early 1990s, and blogging since 2002.
Kevin Carroll – @kckatalyst
Kevin Carroll is the founder of Kevin Carroll Katalyst/LLC and the author of the three highly successful books, Rulse of the Red Rubber Ball, What’s Your Red Rubber Ball?! and The Red Rubber Ball at Work, published by ESPN, Disney Press and McGraw-Hill. As an author, speaker and agent for social change (a.k.a. the Katalyst), it is Kevin’s “job” to inspire business, organizations and individuals –from CEOs and employees of Fortune 500 companies to schoolchildren — to embrace their spirit of play and creativity to maximize their human potential and sustain more meaningful business and personal growth.
Erin Chase – @5dollardinners
Erin Chase is the author of The $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook and founder of the website $5 Dinners.com. When not chasing after the kids or dreaming up new recipes to test in the kitchen or blogging about her latest $5 meal, she enjoys running, scrapbooking and reading. She lives with her husband, Steve, and 3 young boys in Dayton, Ohio.
Amy Clark – @momadvice
Amy Allen Clark is the founder of the nationally known MomAdvice.com community where she maintains her website and three blogs. MomAdvice.com offers tips on parenting, recipes, money-saving advice, and simple solutions for work-at-home moms.
Julie Cole – @juliecole
Mother of six Julie Cole saw Mabel’s Labels, the business she co-founded with three other moms grow from basement start-up to North America’s leading provider of personalized labels. In addition to her blog at www.mabelhood.com Julie writes for The Yummy Mummy Club, Wee Welcome, Life with Kids, Canadian Parents and PTPA Media. She speaks from first-hand experience on the power of online networking and reaching target markets through social media and an expanding network of bloggers, tweeters and affiliates. Julie explores how this relationship is reciprocal and forms a dynamic business model based on cooperation and knowledge sharing.
Catherine Connors – @herbadmother
Catherine Connors is a mother, writer and recovering academic, which means that she can translate ‘Goodnight, Moon’ into Latin, a feat that is less impressive to toddlers than you might think. She’s the author of HerBadMother.com, the featured parenting blogger at Beliefnet, and the co-founder and editor of The Bad Moms Club. In her spare time, she practices talking about herself in the third person. She’s getting pretty good at it.
Kim Christoferson – @YouCanMakeThis
Kim Christopherson is the founder www.YouCanMakeThis.com, www.SWAKembroidery.com, and www.YouCanQuiltThis.com. When starting the sites, Kim wanted to provide a place where people could learn how to make items for their homes and families. She has always loved the creative process and the joy it brings, and loves to see others do the same.
Between juggling children’s schedules with swimming, piano lessons, and homework, she enjoys sewing, crafting, photography, and eating chocolate-covered cinnamon bears. She looks forward to the next DIY business “adventure” with her twin sister, Kris. Details on that coming soon!
Esther Crawford – @faintstarlite
Esther Crawford is a mom to an eight month old, but will soon have a larger troop since her family is in the process of adopting a sibling group through foster care. In 2004, she began a travel blog to document her experience of living in the Middle East, which over the years has morphed into a life memoir. After video blogging her 70lb weight loss journey in 2006 she was hired as an online spokeswoman and content creator for Weight Watchers. She freelances as a consultant and most recently directed a web video campaign for Kmart.
Janice Croze – @janicecroze
In 2006, Janice Croze and her identical twin sister, Susan Carraretto, created 5 Minutes for Mom.com and it quickly became a go-to site for moms that entertains and informs, while promoting the online mom community.
The Wall Street Journal listed 5 Minutes for Mom as the 2nd top parenting blog and it has placed in the Top 100 in Technorati. Janice and Susan also own two successful e-commerce stores, http://www.PedalCarsandRetro.com and http://www.A-Rocking-Horse-To-Love.com and a threaded video conversation called, Say it Face to Face.com.
Janice is mom to Jackson and Olivia, and she tweets from @5minutesformom and @janicecroze.
Darcy di Disegno – @my3boybarians
Blogging since 2005, Darcy is the boybarian mom of the crew over at My 3 Boybarians. She is, perhaps, better known as the designer, entrepreneur, and creative body behind Graphically
Designing. Darcy has designed blogs on 5 continents and in several languages. She specializes in clean, fresh and beautiful design for those who want to grow their audience. Darcy offers the
popular “blog boot camp” and consulting and will be speaking on what makes your blog appeal to a wider demographic. You can find her on twitter @my3boybarians or Facebook on the Graphically Designing Fanpage.
Angela England – @AngEngland
Angela England holds several professional certifications and writes from her rural Oklahoma home. She and her husband are expecting their fourth baby in April. England is the founder of The Untrained Housewife (http://untrainedhousewife.com) and has a writing/blogging related site AngEngland.com (http://angengland.com) in addition to contributing for several other websites online. Her recent ebook, Making Money From Your Blogging: Moving Beyond Banner Ad Sales, helps writers maximize their writing income.
Jenn Fowler – @JennFowler
After 11 years as an Army Logistic Officer, Jenn Fowler traded her combat boots for tennis shoes and became stay at home mom in Upstate New York. She combined her love of writing and saving money to create “Frugal Upstate” in Jan 06, where she helps teach people how to “Use what you have, get creative and save”. Jenn is a blogger, speaker and social media consultant working with fortune 500 companies such as Hershey’s and Walmart. She is a partner at The Social Joint, founding member of Walmart’s Elevenmoms, and on the Social Media Advisory Board for “Life…supplemented”.
Emily Freeman – @emilychats
Emily Freeman is a sign language interpreter turned writer and photographer. She occasionally speaks about blogging and photography and is a regular contributor for DaySpring’s online magazine, (in)courage. She hosts a weekly linky called Tuesdays Unwrapped on her blog, ChattingAtTheSky.com, where readers are invited to unwrap the small, secret gifts of the everyday.
She somehow managed to convince a publisher she is grown up enough to write two books for women and teenage girls on authentic living and is feverishly working to meet a summer deadline. You can find her on twitter @skychatter and in real life in North Carolina where she lives with her youth pastor husband, twin daughters and toddler son.
Deanna Garrison – @DomesticChicky
It’s hard to know when my love of photography began – when I developed my first photo in a darkroom at age 10, my job as photographer at summer camp in high school, or the first time the words ISO, aperture and shutter speed FINALLY made sense. I love observing sacred moments in time, and if I am blessed with with opportunity to capture it as well…then I am happy. My favorite subjects are all around me – my 2 crazy boys, the gorgeous weather we enjoy in Southern California, and even the small things – a funny crack in a sidewalk, a dewy rose in my front yard, or the perfect cup of coffee – these are the things that make me love what I do.
Susan Getgood – @sgetgood
Prior to founding GetGood Strategic Marketing, Susan was Senior Vice President of Marketing at Internet software company SurfControl. Her professional marketing blog, where she writes about blogger outreach, internet branding and social media marketing strategies, is Marketing Roadmaps. She also writes a personal blog, Snapshot Chronicles, a family travel blog, Snapshot Chronicles Roadtrip, and contributes to a number of group blogs. Susan was named a Fellow of the Society for New Communications Research in 2008 and speaks regularly at social media conferences like BlogHer and New Comm Forum. She is a co-founder of Blog with Integrity and a contributing editor for BlogHer’s Digital Parenting/Family Connections project.
Susan Ginsburg – Linked In Susan Ginsburg
Chief of St. Martins/Athaneum Books, she published such world-famous and critically acclaimed best-selling writers as Alice Walker (THE COLOR PURPLE) and John Irving (THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP). Since becoming an agent at Writers House, Susan has established a considerable reputation for representing exciting and timely new work. Her commercial non-fiction client list includes science and mathematics titles, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism, business ethics and narrative non-fiction. Susan also represents a wide range of novelists, including best-selling women’s fiction, romance, and National Book Award-finalist literary titles. In addition, Susan is recognized for her list of accomplished and best-selling cookbook authors and food world luminaries.
Amber Haines – @amberrunsamuck
Amber Haines has a degree in English/Creative Writing and persevered through half an MFA in Poetry at The University Of Arkansas before birthing 3 boys in 3 years. She and her husband, Seth Haines (@MotherLetter,) are waiting to adopt their daughter. Amber is A Southerner, a struggler, and a straggler. She believes that the purpose of imagination and art is to know God. Life relays into writing, into art, and she wants to learn more about this process. Read her at TheRunaMuck.com. Follow Her On Twitter: @AmberRunsaMuck.
Holly Hamann – @hollyk
Holly is co-founder of BlogFrog, a web2.0 start-up offering social and community tools for websites. She has spent her career launching start-ups in the Internet, bio-tech, entertainment, and other high-tech industries. She has spent many years studying internet and social media use by teens, GenY, and women. She is a public speaker, contributing writer on technology and marketing to various publications, is an American Marketing Association “Marketer of the Year” recipient, and guest blogger for The HuffingtonPost. She holds a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science and completed graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University. She lives in Colorado and blogs about technology and life with teenagers on her blog Breadcrumz.
Debba Haupert – Girlfriendology
Debba Haupert is founder of Girlfriendology.com – the online community for women. Debba
is a ‘marketing mutt’ with 20+ years of corporate marketing experience. She is
an award-winning author, a previous HGTV and QVC demonstrator, BlogTalkRadio
show host and finalist in the Genesis Today social media contest. She has
worked with brands such as Frito Lay, Kroger, Healthy Choice and others. Debba
works with companies to reach women through social media, is co-founder of Cincinnati
Women Bloggers and is thrilled to be in the company of these fabulous Blissdom presenters!
Rachael Herrscher – @todaysmama
Founder TodaysMama.com (a publishing company and online community for moms), Entrepreneur.com blogger at presspass.entrepreneur.com, wanna be tech geek, mama of 3.
Jennifer James – @mombloggersclub
Jennifer James is the founder of the Mom Bloggers Club, one of the largest social networks for moms who blog, as well as the founder of other niche social networks for moms from gamer moms to moms who vlog. The Mom Bloggers Club has been featured on CNN.com, BrandWeek, NPR, and was included in Nielsen’s Spring 2009 Power Moms 50 List. Jennifer has been creating niche sites for moms since 2003, started blogging in 2004, and entered the world of social networking in 2007. She now serves as a social media strategist to individuals, small companies and large brands.
Barbara Jones – @BarbaraJones
Intuition Marketing and One2One Network were founded by Barbara Jones, a seasoned marketing executive in the entertainment industry. She is also a sought-after speaker and consultant on marketing, social media and word of mouth marketing involving women and moms. She happily works in the NYC-Tri-State Area but dreams of the mountains in the West to satisfy her annual snowboarding fix. Barbara and her husband have three children and five Macs.
Megan Jordan – @velveteenmind
Megan Jordan is the mother and writer behind Velveteen Mind . A resonating narrative, plush with perspective, Velveteen Mind revels in the threadbare fabric of Megan’s life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast as a mother of three under the age of six. Focusing on character and the craft of writing, she naturally segued to the creation of Blog Nosh Magazine , an online magazine amplifying the strongest works of bloggers, undiscovered and beloved alike.
Isabel Kallman – @isabelkallman
Isabel is the founder and chief at Alpha Mom, which began as the nation’s first parenting TV channel found in 13 million homes and has since transformed itself into an online destination and marketing research lab. The term “Alpha Mom” has been recognized by media– such as USA Today, The Today Show, and Good Morning America– as the category generic for the ultimate influencers. Most recently, Forbes anointed Alpha Mom one of the Top 10 Mommy ‘Hood Gurus. For Isabel, this year should bring some exciting new business initiatives that are in the works and fun travel with her husband and 6.5 year-old son.
Liza Barry-Kessler – @lizawashere
Liza Barry-Kessler is the Managing Partner of Privacy Counsel, LLC. She has 15 years experience as a privacy and communications professional, working for organizations including the Center for Democracy & Technology, America Online, and EarthLink.
Ms. Barry-Kessler is co-author of Privacy in the 21st Century: Issues for Public, School, and Academic Libraries, has written numerous articles including “Endorsements, Testimonials, and Bloggers: The New FTC Guides” in the December 2009 issue of Wisconsin Lawyer, and is an award-winning blogger.
She graduated from the University of Wisconsin School of Law and from Smith College; she also studied constitutional law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Christine Koh – @bostonmamas
Christine Koh is a former music and brain scientist (she earned her Ph.D. in psychology, and completed her music and auditory neurology postdoctoral fellowship at MIT/Mass. General Hospital/Harvard Medical School) turned freelance writer, editor, designer, and creative consultant. Christine is the founder and editor of Boston Mamas (through which she was named a Nielsen 50 Power Pack Mom and one of Babble.com’s 50 Best Mommy Bloggers), the designer behind Posh Peacock, writes a personal blog at Pop Discourse, and also pens the Shoestring Magazine column Minimalist Mama. She resides in the Boston area with her husband and 5-year-old daughter. She tweets about it all at @bostonmamas.
Shelly Kramer – @ShellyKramer
Shelly Kramer is a co-founder of V3 Integrated Marketing and founder of Kramer & Co, both headquartered in Kansas City, MO, and doing business with clients all over the world. She’s a sought after consultant and speaker, well-known for her “keeping it real” persona. She’s irreverent, irrepressible and possessed of a wicked sense of humor. A 20+ year marketing veteran, she’s a strategist, brand builder, deep thinker, information junkie, communicator extraordinaire, buzz builder and lover of all things related to social media. Shelly’s adept at helping individuals and brands find their voice in the realm of new media and understand the importance of diving into this ever-changing new world. You can read her blog here: http://www.v3im.com/blog. http://www.v3im.com
Michelle Lamar – @MichelleLamar
Michelle Lamar has over 15 years of marketing and media experience working with Fortune 500 clients.
In 2005, she founded Lamar Digital Group. Her company advises clients on mixing online marketing, social media and online content into traditional advertising plans.
Michelle’s work was featured in two books about social media in the past year. She is the published author of a parenting humor book.
A true geek, Michelle is an active participant in online media.
Michelle’s personal blog was named as one of the Top Mom Blogs of 2009 by Babble.com and she is a contributor to The Huffington Post.
Mishelle Lane – @secretagentmama
Mishelle Lane, a born and raised Buffalonian, now resides in Metro Atlanta with her husband and four children whom she home schools. She has been a photographer for many years; from studio photography to photo-blogging to on-location portraiture to event coverage to artistic impression. Her business Mishelle Lane Photography started early last year. Mishelle’s writing is also showcased on her blog, Secret Agent Mama, as well as others forums and blogs on the internet (such as Aiming Low, Blissfully Domestic, and many more.) Her blog was a finalist in the 2009 Weblog Awards in the photography category. Previous speaking engagements include Blissdom’09 and Type-A Mom Conference.
Lisa Leonard – @lisaleonard
Lisa has been making jewelry since high school but decided to get serious after her first son, David, was born. She wanted to start a small business that would enable her to quit her job and stay home with her two boys. Even though she had never taken any formal classes or received special training in jewelry making she decided to take a leap and start her own handmade jewelry business. She is kind of the ‘jump in and learn as you go’ type. She counts blogging as one of the best networking and business building tools she has encountered. Blogging and business have not only allowed her to work from home, but have connected her with so many amazing women along the way.
Amy Locurto – @livinglocurto
Amy Locurto is a mom of two and owner of Atomic Egg, a creative design firm based in Texas which specializes in corporate branding, investor communications, print media and web design. Amy is a graduate of Oklahoma State University with a BFA in graphic design with 20 years of experience in the design industry. Throughout the years, she has worked with clients such as Southern Methodist University, Fossil, Eddie Bauer, Harley Davidson, Disney, Southwest Airlines, and Trinity Industries, Inc. Amy is an avid blogger, amateur photographer and loves all forms of social media. She is co-founder of I Heart Faces LLC, a photography web site with fun weekly photo challenges, tutorials and photo tips for beginners. You can also find her daily on her personal blog, Living Locurto where she provides free printables, recipes and creative ideas for kids and families.
Dana Loesch – @DLoesch
Dana Loesch blogs at Mamalogues.com, DanaRadio.com, and hosts her own radio show, The Dana Show , on KFTK 97.1 FM Talk. She was named the Riverfront Times Best Columnist of 2007 and she was selected as one of St. Louis’s “30 Under 30″ by the St. Louis Business Journal in 2008. In May 2009 she was named as one of the top 50 most powerful moms online by Neilsen and made their top 16 power list. Dana appears regularly on Fox News and CNN, and was the first and only female guest host for Michael Savage. She writes for Biggovernment.com , Big Journalism.com , and vlogs for Momversation . Dana founded the St. Louis Bloggers Guild in early 2008 and speaks regularly on the subject of blogging, motherhood, and netroots. She and her husband, Chris, and their two young sons live in St. Louis.
Lindsay Maines – @rockandrollmama
Lindsay Reed Maines is a writer, teacher, and social media consultant. Her clients range from first time authors to Fortune 500 entertainment companies, but the common thread is they’re all trying to learn how to operate successfully in the brave new world of social media, while being true to their brand and premise.
Her print work’s appeared in The Washington Post and Brain,Child Magazine, and is forthcoming in Redbook. She’s spoken at Jeff Pulver’s Social Communication Summit and #140Conf on digital moms and their influence, and is in the process of selling her first non-fiction book, “Rock and Roll Mamas”, about moms keeping their identity post- baby. It’s a topic near and dear, as her husband plays bass for a rock band that tours internationally six- nine months of the year, and they have three children.
Nancy Martira – @nancy_martira
Nancy Martira is a Senior Interactive Strategist at Ketchum PR in New York City. She counsels a wide variety of brands on how to add value to online communities and engage with bloggers and consumers in a meaningful way. Nancy blogs at Publicly Relating. This is her second year speaking at Blissdom.
Prior to landing in PR, Nancy has been a Senate Page, a barista, a bank teller, a bilingual nanny, a cupcake blogger, an Executive Assistant, a freelance writer, a German-speaking Office Manager and a bridesmaid on more than one occasion.
Born and raised in Rhode Island, she now raises hell in Brooklyn.
Christy Matte – @morethanmommy
Rachel Matthews – @sthrnfairytale
Rachel Matthews is a 31 year old South Texas sometimes southern belle, who is married to her own southern version of a Prince charming with camo and a Harley instead of armor & a white horse. She is mom to a 6 year old Princess and a 3 year old son, who is all too aptly named Monkey.
Between keeping him off the ceiling fans and keeping up with her daughter’s activities, Rachel is the Food Editor for Blissful Food and authors the blog A Southern Fairytale about family, food, and the daily happenings of their life in Texas.
Audrey McClelland – @AudreyMcClellan
Audrey McClelland is a mother of 4 young boys and a founder of MomGenerations.com. After graduating from Brown University, and fueled by her love of fashion, Audrey moved to NYC and worked for Donna Karan International for 6 years; her first position was as Donna Karan’s personal assistant. The experience inspired Audrey to create a fashion component for all moms within her personal mom blog on Mom Generations. This year Audrey launched the popular series “365 Days of Fashion Advice for Moms” on Mom Generations. Audrey was named as one of “The Power Pack” Moms in Nielson’s Online 2009 Power Moms list. Audrey is the co-editor of Lifetime Moms Beauty & Style channel and co-founder of the fashion digital series, DailyDoseofStyle.com A spokesperson for Totsy.com, a vlogger for Johnson & Johnson’s “Real Moms” Health Channel, one of Hanes’ Social Media Comfort Crew members, a member of the Walmart Elevenmoms, and she holds a position on Hasbro’s Playskool Panel.
Jennifer McKinney – @MckMama
Melissa Michaels – @theinspiredroom
Melissa Michaels is the creator of The Inspired Room, one of the most respected and visited decorating and homemaking blogs on the web. Melissa is a regular contributor to incourage, Blissfully Domestic, and Divine Caroline and is a speaker at popular conferences such as Blissdom, A Woman Inspired and Relevant.
The Inspired Room has been recognized by publications and online sites such as Ladies Home Journal, Coastal Living, Better Homes & Gardens, Canadian House & Home, Dallas Morning News, The Oregonian, The Wall Street Journal and Apartment Therapy.
When not on the Internet, Melissa is likely to be found accidentally super gluing her hands to baseboard molding or daydreaming about living in a cottage by the sea.
Tanis Miller – @redneckmommy
When Tanis isn’t embarrassing her children at one school event or another, drowning in a pile of unfolded laundry or acting as an advocate for children with disabilities you can generally find her wandering around topless, trying to scare the local wild life.
Michelle Mitchelle – @Scribbit
Blogging from Alaska since 2005, I’ve worn off the lettering on two keyboards from my inability to keep quiet. I’ve won awards from the Anchorage Daily News for blogging and for creative writing (isn’t all writing is creative?) and I do freelance writing or editing when I’m not sewing cub scout patches, picking Silly Putty out of carpet or looking for lost hamsters. In 2009 I published an ebook, Blogging in Pink: A Woman’s Guide to Blogging, and am working on a “real” book (a novel). Scribbit has been featured in publications such as Better Homes and Gardens, The Denver Post and The Wall Street Journal.
Kim Moldofsky – @KimMoldofsky
Kim Moldofsky has been a dolphin trainer and a potty trainer. Now she’s a Social Media Mom who blogs, Tweets, consults and mops up boy pee. Through her company Positive Impact, Inc., she helps brands understand and work with mombloggers. Her clients include LeapFrog , ConAgra , and Steaz . She’s been writing about marketing to mombloggers, parenting gifted children, and more at Hormone-Colored Days since 2005. She also blogs at Scrambled CAKE and Chicago Moms Blog . A former contributor to BabyCenter.com’s popular Momformation blog and veteran of many brand-sponsored retreats, Kim has been quoted in Huffington Post’s Complete Guide to Blogging, Parenting, and MSNBC.
Casey Moosh – @mooshinindy
Sarah Mueller -
Sarah Mueller is a senior writer at Hallmark Cards. She works through a writing and brainstorming studio where she is part of several projects. She’s had various roles at the company, including helping launch Hallmark’s (PRODUCT)RED line. When she’s not writing for all kinds of different Hallmark products, Sarah is probably writing other stuff, running, or making noise (plays the keys and sings). In a previous life, Sarah pretended to be a fledgling journalist and even fooled the University of Missouri’s J-School into giving her a bachelor’s and master’s degree.
Cooper Munroe – @coopermunroe
Daisy Olsen – @DaisyOlsen
Tsh Oxenreider – @simplemom
Tsh Oxenreider is a writer, a graphic designer, a wife, a mama, and a home manager. She lives overseas with her family, so she experiences daily language blunders, cultural faux pas, and otherwise confusing issues that come with raising children cross-culturally as American expats.
You can find Tsh writing about life hacks for home managers at Simple Mom. Tsh is also writing a book on organized simplicity at home, due in bookstores late 2010. Tsh recently formed Simple Living Media, LLC, where she oversees a variety of blogs, all geared towards simple living. In February 2010, the network will launch as a family of five blogs, all centered with one purpose — to help people simplify their lives.
Jendi Pagano – @jendisjournal
I’m a wife and mother that loves to make videos. At SimpleVloggingTips.com I share what I’ve learned about vlogging with other moms/ladies so they can have the fun I’m having! At Jendi’s Journal.com I blog and vlog about my daily life with my husband, 3 children, a dog, cat, and rabbit. I’m a contributor to BlissfullyDomestic.com, active on twitter @jendisjournal, a live show hostess on MomTV.com, and enjoy participating in live webinars and teleseminars.
Wendy Piersall – @eMom
Sommer Poquette – @GreenMom
Sommer Poquette is a mom of two young children a wife, educator, green entrepreneur, humanitarian, enthusiastic social media fanatic, and social media and marketing consultant and blogger in the green niche. She works full time as a director of a local collaborative focusing on Early Childhood and runs a partnership with 2 other successful bloggers and entrepreneurs, the 3 Green Angels.
Summer started Green & Clean Mom as a way to reach out to other moms like herself as she started to learn more about ways to be more eco-savvy. Poquette, started blogging as a way to reach other parents like herself, to give her opinion on products and document her challenges but to also motivate, encourage and inspire others to be some shade of green. You might have heard her at BlogHer 09′ in Chicago and other local venues as well as mentioned in the NY Times, ABC News Online and other great online publications, websites, blogs and sources.
Stephanie Precourt – @babysteph
Stephanie Precourt has been married to Jeff 10 years & is Mom to 3 boys: Noah- almost 9, Carter- 7, Grayson- 4, and a home-birthed little girl Ivy LaRue- 16 months. They all live in a very tiny (but lovely) home in Valparaiso, IN. Stephanie works from home as a writer for her blog Adventures In Babywearing as well as SheKnows.com’s Real Moms Guide. She also freelances for NWIparent Magazine and the NWIparent blog Close To Home, and is the Managing Editor for 5 Minutes For Parenting.
Lucretia Pruitt – @GeekMommy
Corvida Raven – @corvida
Melinda Roberts – @TheMommyBlog
Melinda Roberts is the author of TheMommyBlog.net and Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood. She is a divorced, single mom to three young children, survived the ups and downs of Silicon Valley’s tech bubble, and worked in the nonprofit sector for twelve years before focusing mostly on her writing. She is a panelist on Momversation.com and has been featured on Oprah, CNN Prime Time, CNN.com, ABC, and CBS. Raised in Chicago, she lives with her family in California’s Bay Area and tries her very best to use her powers for good.
Renee Ross – @ReneeJRoss
Kimba Rugh- @kimbaASPTL
Kimba is a wife, mama, homemaker and blogger. After having children, Kimba left a 10-year career in corporate marketing to be at home. She then began to exercise her talent and passion for creating a beautiful home on a tight budget. She is a compulsive spray painter and furniture re-arranger. On her blog, A Soft Place to Land, Kimba shares ideas for thrifty do-it-yourself projects, furniture makeovers and all things home. She also inspires her readers with practical ideas for creating a sanctuary at home. Each Tuesday, Kimba hosts a popular blog carnival called DIY Day on ASPTL where readers share projects from their homes.
Deb Rox – @debontherocks
Deb Rox is CEO of the 3 Smart Girlz LLC consulting co-operative in Tallahassee, Florida where she manages online ventures and works on business development, marketing and media projects. She’s the Marketing Director for Blog Nosh Magazine. Deb blogs media, pop culture, life and other po-mo madness at Deb on the Rocks, as a Contributing Editor to BlogHer, and on Twitter.
Jennifer Schmidt – @beautyandbedlam
Jennifer Schmidt is a family manager who shares her never ending pursuit of balancing it all on her blog, Balancing Beauty and Bedlam. As a motivational speaker and worship leader, Jen finds joy in encouraging women, both on her blog and as a regular contributor to DaySpring’s blog for women, (in)courage. But she receives the sweetest reward from her most demanding audience, her family.
As a mom of five, Jen has learned to embrace the good, the bad, and the ugly. Because of her expertise at finding ways to save a penny, she was chosen to be on Fridgedaire’s 2010 Super Influencer Test Drive Team. Jen is passionate about sharing tips on frugal living, creative thrifting and meal planning. You can find her dreaming of a clean house while trying to see beauty in the bedlam.
Arianne Segerman – @ToThink
Arianne started her career as a freelance writer 6 years ago after leaving her (not) exciting job as a Paralegal. She didn’t stop with the life changes there, after moving from Los Angeles to Chicago in Oct ‘06 and then to Charleston, SC in October ‘09, Arianne has been working on finding her inner steel magnolia ever since.
Arianne uses her blog-To This is To Create(http://www.tothinkistocreate.com/)-to inspire and encourage women with stories and pictures from her heart. An advocate for natural health and wellness, Arianne continually strives to find a balance between her life as a mom of boys with autism, her journey of healing after the loss of her daughter at 18 weeks of pregnancy, and her desire to grow and love and make a difference in this life.
You can find Arianne writing all over the web and speaking to women about finding balance and inspiring thought. Arianne currently works with Lifetime Entertainment as the Fit & Healthy channel leader at the new LifetimeMoms.com. Her blog To Think is to Create was awarded Parent’s pick by Nickelodeon ParentsConnect.com as Best Chicago Parenting Blog 2009.
Jo-Lynne Shane – @dcrmom
Jo-Lynne Shane a part-time blogger, part-time blog designer, and full-time wife and mom living in the greater Philadelphia area. Named one of Nielsen’s Power Mom 50 and Best Local Blog in Main Line Today, Jo-Lynne has been blogging at Musings of a Housewife for four years, where she has built a community of engaged readers through her authenticity and humor. Topics include, but are not limited to culture, motherhood, nutrition, reality TV, and of course coffee and handbags. Jo-Lynne also owns the down-to-earth fashion and beauty blog Chic Critique. Recent speaking engagements include the She Speaks Conference and the Child’s Play Communications Blogger’s Brunch.
Wendy Scherer – @wendyscherer
Wendy is a founding partner of The Social Studies Group (www.socialstudiesgroup.com), a social media research firm that provides deep analyses of social media conversations to help companies better understand their customers, competitors, markets and industries. An area of specialization involves identifying and analyzing niche communities online, creating “universes” that can be monitored and analyzed over time.
Wendy’s love of research and ‘social media’ began in the1980s while working on the GEnie (GE’s online service) account. She admits that one of the most exciting purchases she made ever was the state-of-the-art 2400 baud dial-up modem (and she wishes she’d kept it!).
Aliza Sherman – @alizasherman
Aliza Sherman is a Web pioneer, social media strategist, published author, blogger, podcaster, and regular contributor to national magazines and web sites. Fast Company recently named her one of the Most Influential Women in Technology. She founded the first woman-owned Internet company Cybergrrl, Inc. and the first women’s Internet organization Webgrrls International. Named by Newsweek as one of the “Top 50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet,” Aliza continues to be recognized as a leader in the ever-evolving landscape of Internet media, marketing and communications. Her books include The Everything Blogging Book, Streetwise Ecommerce, and PowerTools for Women in Business.
Melanie Sheridan – @ADramaticMommy
Melanie Sheridan is a Southern Californian blogging about her life as as working mom turned stay at home social media mom. She married her high school sweetheart 11 years ago and they share one amazing kid. Melanie loves to read, shop, Tweet, collect shoes and play with her DSLR. This is her first Blissdom conference and first speaking engagement.
Stephanie Smirnov – @ssmirnov
Stephanie Smirnov is president of DeVries Public Relations, a leading consumer PR firm based in New York City. Over the course of her career she’s held leadership roles both on the agency and client sides of the PR business. Stephanie currently oversees Strategic and Creative Services at DeVries, which includes digital and social media strategy. She blogs as “PR Mama,” a title that reflects both aspects of her shapeshifting identity – senior PR executive and devoted mother. She lives in northern New Jersey and can be found at her blog or on Twitter.
Danielle Smith – @ExtraordMommy
Formerly an Award Winning Television Anchor and Reporter, Danielle is no stranger to on-camera work. Now that she is a happily married mom to two sweet and sassy small people, she has redirected her energies to her website, ExtraordinaryMommy.com, hosting her own show, The Spin Cycle on MomTV and co-hosting Why Moms Matter on Blog Talk Radio. She has recently joined the team at Bliss TV and is thrilled to be creating engaging content and inspiring conversations among women. Mommy, proud wife, constant talker, California-Girl, beach-goer, wine enthusiast, social media lover, public speaker, content creator, and yes, that was our Family Christmas card in Prague.
Jessica Smith – @Jessicaknows
Jessica Smith is a vice president in Fleishman-Hillard’s Digital Practice. She brings more than a decade of marketing and social media expertise to the firm and its clients.
Because of Ms. Smith’s influence in the digital space – recently tapped as one of the Power Pack in Nielsen’s Power Mom 50 list and TopRankBlog’s 2010 list of 25 Women Who Rock Social Media– she is intimately aware of what it takes to create buzz and foster communities for companies that target consumers through new media. She currently works with clients U.S. Potato Board, Conagra Foods Foundation and California Raisins, and is a resource for clients across the entire FH network globally. Ms. Smith embraces this wild, wild West of the inter-webs as a way of harnessing new conversation channels to achieve real results.
Nancy Smith – @NancyDSmith
Nancy is also leading the charge for iRobot’s SPARK program – the Starter Program for the Advancement of Robotics Knowledge. This program hopes to revitalize the foundation of innovation through Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education, getting kids, parents and teachers excited about learning through robots.
Nester Smith – @thenester
The Nester, who writes anonymously, is a home-stager, re-designer and design school dropout. She is the founder of Nesting Place, a website dedicated to real decorating for real women with real budgets, where It Doesn’t Have to be Perfect to be Beautiful™. Besides writing articles read by thousands of women everyday, she also writes for (in)courage, DaySpring’s online magazine for women, and has published two ebooks with surprising success. The Nester has also created a unique line of decorative tassels and speaks from time to time about blogging and decorating.
Nester’s favorite place to be is home with her husband and three boys. You can usually catch her there moving furniture.
Heather Solos – @HeatherSolos
Heather Solos began blogging in 2004 as a means to stay in contact with long distance friends and family. In January of 2007 Heather Solos was the first blogger hired by the Post and Courier to cover the local blog circuit. She acted as a human aggregator highlighting, items of interest within the community. In March of 2007 she founded Home-Ec101.com. Solos is a founder of Social Media Club Charleston and regularly speaks about blogging and social media. She resides in the Lowcountry of South Carolina with her husband and three children.
Carmen Staicer – @mttsm
Carmen can be found online at Mom to the Screaming Masses, where she chronicles her life as a mom of a large family full of smart alecs, laundry avoiders and sports nuts. She blogs at The Elff Diet, where she discusses diet, exercise and all things health related. She is the Chief Mom for Diets In Review, a website that provides the tools and information needed to educate yourself to start living a healthier life for today and tomorrow. She is also the corporate blogger for Zwaggle, a website devoted to share, trade and swap kid’s gear. In her spare time, she loves to take boxing class, trains Muay Thai, reads, blogs, wastes time on Twitter (@mttsm) and Facebook, and cooks like nobody’s business. She never sleeps.
Liz Strauss – @lizstrauss
Liz Strauss is a social web strategist who works with corporations, healthcare, hospitality, and service professionals to seamlessly integrate online and offline cultures into their growth strategies using social media tools such as blogs. Liz is founder of SOBCon a social business think tank that grew out of her popular Successful-Blog.com and also wrote: The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog: An Insider’s Guide to How Conversation Is Changing the Way that Business Works.
Liz Strauss has been named to the Top 100 Social Media & Internet Marketing Bloggers the Top 100 Most Influential Marketers of 2008, and most recently to Top Social Media Strategists To Watch In 2010
Kris Thurgood – @jessekatedesign
Some people would say Kris is a busybody, and they would be right. Her need to “always be doing something” and express herself has been exciting. This mom of 4 stays busy as the site manager of www.SWAKembroidery.com and is one of the core team members running www.YouCanMakeThis.com. She also keeps her own blog found at www.JesseKateDesigns.blogspot.com where she shares a more personal side and gives fun & crafty ideas to make for your homes and families. “DIY” is in her blood and in 2010 she will be launching a brand-new adventure with her twin sister, Kim in the do-it-yourself world!
Laurie Turk – @TipJunkie
Laurie is a mother of 3 boys living in Ft. Worth, Texas. She loves to promote creative women through their ideas and products. Therefore, Laurie is the founder of Tip Junkie and Executive Homemaker both of which host Mom-preneur Shops to promote women in business. She also hosts her own TJ Community for crafty chicks to collaborate. Laurie is a co-founder of Chic Chick Media and the Visit Our Peeps widget, a revolutionary text ad system. When she’s not online or making-over a room; she’s playing board games with her boys or watching a Sci-Fi movie while snuggling her man.
Amy Turn Sharp – @dooblehvay
Amy Turn Sharp is the wood queen of Little Alouette in Columbus, Ohio. Amy and her dreamy husband Joe run Little Alouette (the sweetest lil wee wood toy company ever!) She tracks her life on doobleh-vay blog and all times has at least 7 projects brewing. She is writing her first novel and learning how to bake in 2010. Amy is practicing positive thinking and hoping to have an essay on NPR someday. Amy LOVES the connections online and helping other women find their rooms of their own. She really likes radishes, spoonerisms, and chicken korma.
Ghennipher Weeks – @Ghennipher
Ghennipher Weeks is an industry seer in online marketing. A groundbreaking Website Conversion expert in the early 2000s, she became one of the pioneers in Search Engine Optimization as that phrase was being invented, and then again in Pay-Per-Click for large corporations such as Overstock.com, HomeGain.com, and Alegis Group. She is one of the few veteran professionals in Internet Marketing that other consultants look to for leadership.
Now CEO of Cindikate Inc, she helps brand managers in large corporations build and monetize their Online Communities. Ms. Weeks is a regular speaker on the lecture circuit for her sharp expertise in both the marketing and the analytics sides of online marketing.
Carrie Weir – @Carrie_in_Tn
Carrie Ferguson Weir combines know-how gained during nearly 20 years as a daily newspaper reporter with the insider knowledge she gained as a niche business owner to help businesses promote themselves to media, and directly to customers, using traditional pitching, social media, e-mail campaigns and on-line networks. WeirPR, founded in 2008, has clients ranging from “Mompreneur” start-ups, to national health care consultants, restaurants and non-profits. Carrie left daily journalism in 2005 to co-launch Los Pollitos Dicen (The Little Chicks Say), a popular boutique line of Spanish baby and children’s gifts. Creating the business led to Carrie’s personal blog, Bilingual in the Boonies; and a second gift t-shirt line, Chichi & Flaco. Carrie has also is a founder and editor of Tiki Tiki Blog, a site dedicated to stories about living Latino in the U.S., has served as a weekly columnist for Parenting.com and guest blogger for several other online publications. Carrie, a native of Miami, Fla., lives in a little town outside of Nashville with her journalist husband and 6-year-old daughter.
Kristen Welch – @weareTHATfamily
Molly Wigand – @hmkmollyw
Molly Wigand has had two Hallmark careers. For five years in the early ’80s, she was a greeting card editor and staff writer. She left the company in 1984 to raise her family and launch a freelance career, then happily returned in 1999. In her 30 years as a writer, Molly has blogged, performed stand-up comedy, taught writing, written a screenplay, created web content, presided over the PTA, and published children’s, how-to, and inspirational books. Currently, she is a writing stylist in Hallmark’s Creative Writing Studio.
Allison Worthington – @alliworthington
Allison jokingly refers to herself as the accidental entrepreneur. She first discovered blogging and Twitter in 2007 and her life was never the same. Channeling her passion for Social Media, Blogging and community, she built a media conglomerate all based on one tenet; Bringing Good Things to Women. Blissfully Domestic Publishing, BlissDom and Blissful Media Group all work to promote positive things for women. Allison is a dynamic consultant and strategist who specializes in advising social media strategy and development of innovative promotional campaigns. She is often seen herding her five boys around town and staring lovingly at her iPhone.
Alicia Ybarbo – @TodaysMoms
Alicia Ybarbo (author, television producer, mom) is a two-time Emmy award-winning producer with the Today Show on NBC. She is also the co-author of “Today’s Moms: Essentials for Surviving Baby’s First Year” with Today colleague Mary Ann Zoellner. She’s worked at NBC Sports, ABC’s “The View” with Barbara Walters, and has been at Today for nine years. Alicia has appeared on TODAY, MSNBC, WNBC and LXTV as well has been seen in People, Redbook, Cookie, OK! and Parenting Magazine. She’s currently working on her next book. Alicia lives in New York with her husband, Mark Zimmerman, and their two children.
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