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Your mobile phone or navigation device alerts you as you approach police speed traps.

Now you can have personal conversations with others in the twitter community. Let visitors to your blog or profile page on the web know what you’re up to at the moment. Just display your latest Twitters there with a customized badge (aka, “widget”).

We here at Cool Web Moms are totally obsessed with WIDGETS.

Basically, a widget is a “website in box”

Imagine Taking your blog or website, squishing it up into a tiny little ball, and then tossing it to other websites and asking them to put it up on their site. Just follow http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/cool-web-mom-volunteers-home and you’ll be cool, web 2.0 and more in a flash.

We’ll post some mom blog widgets on our home page and you can crab ‘em and circulate ‘em and post them up on your website.

Mom Blog Widgets definitely = 2.0

Does Every Volunteer Program Need a Blog?

Guest Post by Carla Ganiel

Over at Problogger, Suzanne Falter-Barns asks “Have Blogs Killed Conventional Websites?”

Meanwhile, Jason Preston of Blog Business Summit explains why every business should have a blog. Jason says, “If you wrote a blog about the ins and outs of trucking, and people who were interested in trucks (or being a truck driver) could find the answers to their questions and get a sense of your (undoubtedly good) personality, what company do you think they’ll look to first when they need to get hired?”

What about nonprofit organizations? What about volunteer programs?

If you wrote a really interesting blog about the issues your organization or program seeks to address, would it help you attract more volunteers?

Does every volunteer program need a blog?

Carla Ganiel is a nonprofit management consultant from Tremont, Maine.

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Guest Post by Carla Ganiel

In my last post I mentioned that I subscribe to over a hundred blogs. How do I manage all that information without getting overwhelmed? And how do you “subscribe” to a blog, anyway?

When I first started reading blogs, I used to bookmark them the way you would any other website you wanted to return to, but eventually that got to be too much. I found myself checking my favorite blogs several times a day to see if any new content had been posted, while some blogs I forgot to check for weeks at a time. Clearly, the more blogs I tried to keep track of, the less efficient my bookmark approach became.

Then I discovered RSS, short for “Really Simple Syndication,” a tool that lets you know whenever a blog or other website has been updated. Once again, Darren Rowse at Problogger provides an extremely clear and thorough explanation of how this works. To put it simply, blogs publish a feed, to which you can subscribe. Darren writes, “It’s like subscribing to a magazine that is delivered to you periodically but instead of it coming in your physical mail box each month when the magazine is published it is delivered to your ‘RSS Reader’ every time your favorite website updates.”

Darren recommends two free RSS readers for beginners, Google Reader and Bloglines. I use Google Reader and have found it very user friendly. I have it set up as my homepage so that whenever I turn on my computer the first thing I see is a list of new blog posts that have been published by all the blogs to which I subscribe. I don’t read every single post from every single blog subscription. Instead, with Google Reader, I can scan through them quickly, reading the headlines and deciding how to manage the content.

If the headline doesn’t grab my attention, I might just delete the post. If I’m interested in the topic, I might skim it and then delete it. Or I might read the whole thing and visit the blog to leave a comment. If I want to share the post with my friends, I can email it to them right from Google Reader. And if I want to bookmark a particular post for future reference, I can use another great tool, del.icio.us, a social bookmarking site that lets me organize all my links online, access them from any computer in the world, and share them with my friends.

To subscribe to this blog’s feed, click on the orange RSS icon in the right-hand column. You can also subscribe to receive updates whenever comments are made by clicking on the RSS 2.0 link when you leave a comment.

This may seem like overkill if you’re new to blogging. Maybe this is the only blog you read. But blogging has a funny way of snowballing, and you may be surprised at how quickly you find yourself keeping track of more and more blogs. If that’s the case, you may be ready to try out RSS sooner than you think.

In the meantime, there’s another option to help you keep track of updates to this blog. Simply enter your email address in the box in the right-hand column and click “sign up,” and we’ll send you email updates to let you know when we’ve posted something new.

Carla Ganiel is a nonprofit management consultant from Tremont, Maine.

I hear from moms that you are concerned about internet safety and how much time your spending online. You have questions about how dangerous sites like facebook and Youtube can be. Did you know you can find out all that information and free your mind to worry about something else…

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Here’s something interesting I found out from one of the reports:

“teens who have a host of technology options for dealing with family and friends, including traditional landline phones, cell phones, texting, social network sites, instant messaging, and email are girls. They represent about 28% of the entire teen population and they are more likely to be older girls.”

Copy and paste the following string into your browser and look around.
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/230/report_display.asp

Dear Mom,I know colors are important to you. And thank you for teaching me about the “organic” look vs. the “urban” look and what green and glamorous is all about.

And yes, know your taste is “suburban” and that “prep” moms like different colors.

I am posting some information about our new site on a blog. Blogs can be great for getting the word out about things.

For example. I just created a blog and I’m now publicizing it like this:

I’m pleased to announce MomParlor - a new social network with my mother, my sister and a few different moms, some single, some urban, suburban, californian and all those things that you are…We are happy to be advised by a start up guru who’s experienced growing companies from web domains was actually released in the movie theaters!

MomParlor is A brand new network for moms (and expecting moms) to gather, get info and to connect with each other and the world around them.

We are looking for other moms as we build our new community. Please reach out to us if you want to learn more about the internet while meeting other moms and expecting moms. Here is a sneak peak…