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Maria Bailey

@momtalkradio

Maria Bailey brings a unique voice to today’s moms. She is an award-winning author, radio talk show host, nationally known speaker and the foremost authority on marketing to moms. Each month she speaks to over 11 million moms on TV, radio, print and online. On radio, Maria is host of Mom Talk Radio the first nationally syndicated radio show for moms and Co-host of Good Day with Doug Stephan, the #7 ranked morning talk show in America. Online Maria is the Founder of BlueSuitMom.com, the award-winning Website for executive working mothers and Co-Founder of Newbaby.com and MomTV.com, the largest resource of online video for moms. Maria’s articles can be found in Orange County Family, Hybrid Mom among other magazines. She is the author of “The Ultimate Mom Book” (HCI Books, May 2009).

Professionally, Maria is CEO of BSM Media, a full service marketing and media firm that specializes in marketing to mothers. The client list includes Disney, Build-a-Bear Workshop, Precious Moments, Dell, Cartoon Network, Warner Bros., Fisher Price, Tahitian Noni International and Zhu Zhu Pets. She has been an invited speaker to nearly half of the top 100 consumer brands. Her book, “Marketing to Moms: Getting Your Share of the Trillion Dollar Market” (Prima) was the first to examine the buying power of mothers and the most effective marketing initiatives to tap the $2.1 trillion market. In “Trillion Dollar Moms: Marketing to a New Generation of Mothers” (Dearborn) Maria focuses on the emergence of Gen X and Gen Y mothers and compares them to the Boomer mom segment. Her latest book, “Mom 3.0” examines reaching moms with new technologies, such as blogs, podcast and social networking.

Her latest blog posts:

• Back-to-School Tips for Moms
• Traveling to Russia for Summer Vacation
• Prevent Head Lice So You Don’t Have to Treat it!

Amy Lupold Bair

@resourcefulmom

Amy Lupold Bair, blogger, social media marketer, and mom, is the founder of Resourceful Mommy Media. In 2008, Amy burst onto the social media scene inventing the Twitter Party – a hashtagged social event with panelists and a conversational theme catering to the needs of clients ranging from e-commerce start-ups to nationally recognized trusted brands. Developing from her own successful relationships with public relations firms and companies, Amy developed a network for fellow bloggers in early 2009. The Global Influence Network has grown to include nearly 1,000 social media savvy bloggers. Utilizing her proximity to the nation’s capital, Amy continues to work with powerful Washington, DC firms to implement public service and socially responsible campaigns and events.

A former English teacher and a writer at heart, Amy continues to blog on her personal site, ResourcefulMommy.com. Here you will find the heart of a mother, the voice of an author, and the feedback of a savvy and enthusiastic consumer with a home to run and two fabulous children to raise…all while developing a flourishing business. You can hear more of what Amy has to say in MOMeo Magazine and on the DC Metro Moms blog where she is a contributor as well as at Lifetime Moms where Amy is a Parenting Channel leader. If you would like just a small dose of Amy, she is always available in 140 characters or less at @ResourcefulMom on Twitter.

Her latest blog posts:

• #MixPupsParty Tuesday
• Fisher-Price EZ Bundle Twitter Party Thursday
• Wordless Wednesday – Walt Disney World Moms Panel Search

Heidi Bobier

@hbobier

Heidi Bobier is a young marketer diving head first into emerging media. While attending the University of St. Thomas, she taught classes about social media before it was even part of the curriculum. After writing her thesis on how social networking sites will change how we communicate, she graduated with a degree in communications and a passion for social media.

Heidi started her career working with national media outlets but quickly decided to turn her attention to blogs and online communities. She is currently the Social Media Manager at Axiom Marketing Communications in Minnesota where she works to create mutually beneficial relationships between her clients and online influencers. She provides social media insight on Daily Axioms, and shares stories about her love of food on her blog, Basil Vodka.

When she finds time to put her Blackberry down, you can find Heidi in the kitchen creating a vegetarian dish, reading books, blogs & magazines, or out at the dog park with her adopted puppy Sheldon. But for the 99% of the time she has her phone in-hand, you can find her on Twitter @hbobier.

Her latest blog posts:

• Copying
• Nevermind Wordless Wednesday, This is Wordless Weekend
• Veg

Debbie Bookstaber

@mamanista

Debbie Bookstaber is a partner at Moss-Tucker Associates. Clients include Corolle Dolls (Mattel), Steiff, ASTRA (American Specialty Toy Retailing Association), RosieHippo.com, Vincent Shoes, NewYorkGirlStyle.com, WebmasterRadio.fm, AffCon2010.com and more.

Debbie has over ten years of experience in online marketing, business development, product management and affiliate marketing for brands such as Expedia and Travelocity. Both programs were responsible for several hundred million dollars in annual sales, and she won both the Travelocity Enterprise Award and the Expedia Horizon Award for her job performance. Debbie Bookstaber was previously the VP of Strategy and Business Development at The JAR Group, where she started their affiliate marketing group.

In 2007, Debbie started Mamanista.com, a successful mom blog which generates revenue through affiliate marketing and traditional advertising. Debbie donates all of her profits to charity. She founded Bloganthropy.org, which connects bloggers with corporate giving departments to facilitate charitable donations. Bloganthropy, an exhibitor at BlogHer 2010, also empowers bloggers to become philanthropic leaders in their communities. Debbie has advised PR firms and Fortune 500 companies on blogger relations and effective social media strategies.

Debbie has always been an active volunteer, but the birth of her son inspired her to get more involved in her community and even to run for local office. Debbie serves on several charitable boards and was elected to a position on her local school board in 2007. Debbie graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University with a Bachelors and Masters in History.

Her latest blog posts:

• Want to Win a New Computer AND Help Classrooms Across the Nation???
• Think Tink: Disney’s Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
• Back-to-School Shopping at Marshalls

Kim Borchert

@prairiemama

Kim is a Mama to 4 sweet ones, 1 in Heaven and 3 on Earth. She lives in Utah but is from the Midwest and therefore calls herself Prairie Mama, however most days she feels more like Crazy Mama. When she is not changing or washing diapers, wiping noses, picking up legos and playing referee, she can be found in her garden, playing with her kids, or just reading some good blogs and tweeting with her friends. After the death of her infant daughter, she started writing and almost 7 years later, she is still finding it the best form of therapy. She knits to stay sane and sews to earn money to fund her chocolate habit.

Her latest blog posts:

• Liberty
• Tender Mercies
• What Do You Do?

Ryan Boyles

@theRab

Ryan Boyles posts his declarative life online as a mobile blogger and has been since the days of monochrome Palm Pilots and Geocities. His passion is everyday story-telling about family, local history, events and travel. His tools are a mix of meme-driven tumblelogs, photoblogs, moblogs and videos. Ryan is fascinated with the intersection of the social web in business, society and personal life. As a father of two sons, living online is fun and challenging.

Sarah Braesch

@goonsquadsarah

Sarah Braesch (a.k.a. @GoonSquadSarah) lives outide of Washington D.C. with her husband and six year old boy/girl twins. She writes about parenting on Sarah and the Goon Squad, sports on Draft Day Suit and BlogHer, pop culture on MamaPop and weight loss on Loser Moms.

In her spare time (heh) Sarah sells promotional products (yes, swag), sings in a regional choir and writes short bios in third person.

Her latest blog posts:

• And My Shadow
• Claudia Butchers a LeBron James Joke and Makes Me Laugh Anyway
• Bus Wrecks

Kris Cain

@littletechgirl

Kris Cain is a mom to 2 sets of twins 6 and under who keeps busy working a full-time job, running a photography business, and fueling her gadget addiction. She learned at an early age that she loved computers and has been in front of one ever since. She dabbles in web design, graphic design, and over the past couple of years has learned that she loves blogging. On her blog, LittleTechGirl.com she writes about her love of gadgets, technology, her children, and anything else that crosses her mind. You can find her from day to day on Twitter and Facebook. She is editor of the Family Technology section on Type-A Mom, National Apple Gear and Chicago Tech Gear writer on Examiner.com. She has been involved in social media for almost 10 years and has created lasting friendships from the connections she has made.

Kris was a featured speaker at the Type-A Mom conference, 2009. She has been featured in several articles both online and in print, been interviewed for a book, and has even been on the cover of a local newspaper for Mother’s Day. She has connected with great companies such as HP, Kijiji & eBay, Little Debbie, Google, Dyson, Sonos, CNN, and NBC. She figured out a while ago that she was destined to be really busy (hence the 2 sets of twins), and she has found peace with that.

Her latest blog posts:

• Western Digital Passport Essential Review
• Quick Giveaway: Win a Ticket to Blogalicious in Miami!!
• And the Winner is…

Carol Cain

@nycitymama

Carol Cain is a freelance travel writer and native New Yorker. She is a former publishing and public relations professional, with an MBA in International Relations. She founded The Adventures of a NYCity Mama in December of 2008, a family travel site that was nominated for a Nickelodeon Parent’s Choice Award 2009 with not even a year under its belt.

As the proud Mama of three rambunctious boys and wife to a talented art director and collectible toy designer, she is never short of adventures. Through NYCityMama.com, she catalogues her experiences as she travels, tastes, and discovers all the things in and out of her beloved city, with or without kids in tow.

Through her work and writing, Carol has successfully built a strong and loyal relationship with many brands and organizations. Her affiliations include NYC venues such as The New Victory Theater, Madame Tussauds New York, On Location Tours, and many others, as well as brands such as Country Inn and Suites, Volkswagon and Affinia Hotels, just to name a few. An avid twitterer and able photographer, she is passionate about her family, her friends, her writing, travel, food, and most of all New York City.

Her latest blog posts:

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Michael Carnell

@carnellm

Michael Carnell is a consultant, trainer and developer who empowers people to take advantage of modern technology. Through his website and podcasts at TheSocialMediaMonster.com, he teaches understanding and harnessing social media opportunities. His firm, Palmettobug Digital, works with all brands of technologies and is certified by both Microsoft and Apple. Michael has done extensive web design and programming and is currently working to help small businesses and not-for-profits use Web 2.0.  He has been a social media advocate for over 20 years, including the administration of dial-up bulletin board networks. Michael is also a nationally published speaker, author and contributor to both books and magazines, and has been recently quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle on “How to tweet your small business.” In his spare time he likes to adopt old British sports cars–much to the bewilderment of his wife.

His latest blog posts:

• 3-2-1 Backup!
• Podcast Episode 001: Talking Twitter Part 1
• Twitter Talk Presentation Slide Now Online

Kimberly Coleman

@mominthecity

Kimberly Coleman, a NYC wife and mom of two sons, writes, speaks and consults primarily in the NYC Metro area. Blogging, parenting young kids, life balance and African American moms are her primary topics.

Kimberly received her BA in History-Sociology from Columbia College and worked in finance and research for almost a decade before focusing on parenting themes. She is the founder/lead blogger at Mom in the City, has been the family editor for five African-American focused community newspapers and was a family guide for BabyZone/ParentZone for three years. Kimberly is currently working on an upcoming new family themed blog site designed to highlight her new neighborhood (Forest Hills) in the online community.

Her latest blog posts:

• The First Day of First Grade
• Back to School Nerves (Michael’s and Mines)
• Mini Golf at Flushing Meadows Golf Center

Mandi Ehman

@mandiehman

As the work-at-home mom of four little girls five years old and under, Mandi Ehman knows the value of organizing and streamlining her home and her to-do list firsthand. After graduating summa cum laude with a degree in business administration and marketing, Mandi used her organizational skills to manage a busy real estate office. As a newlywed, she set off on a cross-country adventure with her new husband and began her search for opportunities to work from home before they began a family.

These days, she works as a blog consultant & freelance writer while homeschooling her girls and spending time with her husband, who recently sold his business to become a stay-at-home dad. Although Mandi’s never been a professional organizer, she is passionate about helping others find their own organizational style — tailored to their individual needs, preferences and lifestyles — because she believes that’s the only way to make lasting changes. Organizing Your Way was born out of that passion and continues to be a platform for exploring the different ways various people organize, declutter and manage their time.

Her latest blog posts:

• Reconciling Frugal Living and Unnecessary Splurges
• How to Pack a School Lunch Your Kids Will Eat
• Nutiva Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil at Amazon.com for $0.39/oz.

Angela England

@angengland

Angela England is the Founder of Untrained Housewife, a collaborative site supporting moms and parents striving to get back to the basics. As the busy homeschooling mother of four, she is also the Editor-in-Chief of Blissfully Domestic online women’s magazine and an editor at Type-A Mom. Living with her family in rural Oklahoma, England writes about gardening, alternative medicine and blogging.

Her latest blog posts:

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Ilina Ewen

@IlinaP

Ilina Ewen is a seasoned marketer with 20 years of experience in branding, communications, adverstising, and consumer research. She has her own firm, iFactor, and consults with businesses big and small. Ilina is also known as Mommy to two sons, affectionately called Bird and Deal. She blogs about her musings and rants at Dirt & Noise (home of the weekly feature 5:00 Fridays, where you see a new cocktail recipe and the story that inspired it). She is passionate about food: shopping for it, growing it, cooking it, and of course, eating it. Ilina also blogs at Foodie Mama, Deep South Moms, Triangle Mamas, and WRAL’s GoAskMom. When she has a moment to breathe, you’ll find Ilina builsing LEGO masterpieces, spoiling her dog, reading everything from cookbooks to teen fiction, or trying to hit a tennis ball over the net.

Her latest blog posts:

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Stacey Ferguson

@justicefergie

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