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 Thanks to my Blackberry, instant access to people and information is at my fingertips. Literally. Knowing this made it much easier to say good-bye to my newly married niece as she and her groom left SoCal to make their home on the East Coast. (She called her mom from her cell, like, three times before they reached the California-Arizona border.) With Web-based video-phone sites like Skype, micro-blogs on Twitter and videos on YouTube, it’ll be like she never left! I think the most interesting connections, though, are those we are making with people we’ve never met in person. The explosion of social networks, including our very own Moms Network on ocfamily.com, has us up late (reminiscent of our slumber party days) clicking away on our keyboards as we chat with other moms about what keeps us awake at night. For example, Tammy Keces recently shared how she solved bedtime battles with her son. Take a minute and create your own page on the OC Family Moms Network. You can start your own blog, upload your pictures and video, and ask other moms how in the world they made it through the night with a newborn! Even more exciting: You can form your own network on our MOMS Network. YOU control who can join and who can read and post comments. All you team moms, imagine having a network for your own team. E-mail everyone with one click, post game results and promote your team’s sponsors. PTAs, book clubs and especially Mom’s Clubs, it’s a great way to connect your members. Go to ocfamily.com and click on Moms Network to get started. Thanks to Ashley Eliot, our twentysomething editorial assistant, I’ve discovered a plethora of online tools that are out there to broadcast just about anything. (Hint: Stay tuned for details on OC Family’s radio show.) My latest habit is Twitter (twitter.com). Think toaster pastry vs. a cinnamon roll from, say, Panera. Twitter is all about quick bursts – so-called micro-blogs – that are now rivaling traditional and often too-long regular blogs. Each twitter entry, called a “tweet,” allows you only 140 characters – just enough to express a single thought. Share it with anyone interested in following you. It’s a very voyeuristic thing, really, but sometimes it’s just fun to announce to anyone who will listen that you just lost a pound, finished a project or actually finished all the laundry! A little self-serving, but to give you an idea of how it works, you can follow me at twitter.com/Porrazzo. So, you have homework to do. And to inspire you to get going, I’ve got tickets to the Aquarium of the Pacific to give away. To win them, create your own page on our Moms Network, take a photo of it and e-mail it to me. I’ll give four tickets to the 50th caller (sorry, I’m already in “radio” mode) - I mean to the 50th person who e-mails me at kporrazzo@churmmedia.com. |
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