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March 15, 2010

It started, like so many things in my life, over a cocktail.

Last year, while in Chicago attending BlogHer for the Times, I started talking to Sian of mummytips.co.uk. For two days we’d been attending sessions at the biggest conference for female bloggers – learning about everything from finding our blogging tribe to writing about illness (not a dry eye in the house). It was invigorating, exciting and edifying and we realised we needed something like that. British mummy bloggers are at a slightly different stage. In general the UK has come later to blogging than the US but we’re also learning and incorporating the new tricks of the trade faster. (I’m always meeting new bloggers who not only blog but also Tweet, Stumbleupon and Facebook.)

Cue the entrance of Susanna, founder of British Mummy Bloggers (www.amodernmother.com), a handful of meetings in a hotel lobby and CyberMummy was born.

It’s a British conference devoted to mummy bloggers and the things you want to talk about: good writing, video blogging, getting paid. Plus there’s an end-of-day keynote featuring the best posts from attendees (you can nominate your own), biscuits, lunch and wine… Continue reading