Author Archives: Alaina Forbes

About Alaina Forbes

Alaina shares her fifteen years of work from home experience at her blog Telecommuting Mommies. She also opens up her personal life as a homeschooling, blogging, work at home Mom of four at The Maestro Mom. Alaina also works as a community manager and blogger for ShesConnected. Follow her on Twitter at TelecommuterMom .

Glam Media Launches New Parenting Site

April 24, 2012

Known mostly in the blogosphere as an online publishing and advertising network, Glam Media has recently added a website called Tend as the newest member of its vertical media family. Glam Media has been in the news several times in … Read More

Mom 2.0 Makes Big Announcement

Attendees of the upcoming Mom 2.0 Summit recently received a surprising announcement in regards to an addition to the May 3-5 weekend event. If being hosted at the Ritz-Carlton resort on Key Biscayne, Florida isn’t enough to add excitement to … Read More

Mom Bloggers to Appear in Cool Whip Ad

February 21, 2012

Brands are well aware of the influence bloggers can have online, but a more recent growing trend is the idea of using bloggers in more traditional print media. Kraft’s Cool Whip Brand recently paid four bloggers to appear in ads … Read More

Council of Media Moms in Search of Bloggers

February 17, 2012

After noticing a need for day planners and organizers specifically designed for Moms, Nina Restieri founded momAgenda in 2005, a company dedicated to helping Moms get organized with style. Since then momAgenda has continued to grow, and four years later … Read More

Interview with Money Saving Mom’s Crystal Paine

January 24, 2012

Crystal Paine, known online as Money Saving Mom, recently went from blogger to published author with the release of her new book, The Money Saving Mom’s Budget. Crystal caught the eye of Gallery Books, a division of Simon and Schuster, … Read More

CafeMom to Launch YouTube Channel

November 27, 2011

CafeMom, the No. 1 trafficked site for women with more than nine million unique visits per month, will be launching a new Mom Channel on YouTube in January. The plans include partnering with several production companies, including Studio Now and … Read More

New Coupon Blogger: Kate Gosselin

November 18, 2011

Coupon bloggers just got a new – and very famous – neighbor in their section of the blogosphere. Reality star Kate Gosselin, the mother of eight who was both applauded and derided for bringing her family life to millions each … Read More