Cow pasture to coffee shop | How Twitter changed a life

August 10, 2012 | evolvedmommy | 4 Comments

This is a special guest post by my bloggy-turned-real-life (can’t bring myself to use IRL seriously in a sentence) friend Paige.

I’m sitting in an insanely busy local coffee house.  As the sophisticated crowd bustles around me I am tucked … Read More

This isn’t the Jacket Stable or the Slacks Cabin, ladies: It’s a Dress Barn GIVEAWAY!

November 18, 2011 | evolvedmommy | 56 Comments

Not really sure what I was getting myself into, I dragged my husband Steve (@scratic) over to the Dress Barn in the Pinnacle Hills Promenade to do a little shopping. We had a limited amount of time between work and going to the A-M-A-Z-I-N-G new Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opening. Our family pictures were scheduled for 9:00 a.m. the next morning, which meant that if I didn’t find the perfect outfit there would be no time to find something else for the pictures, and my whole master Christmas card plan would fail. FAIL! Read More

Web 3.0: Social Media Fatigue

October 11, 2011 | evolvedmommy

Gina Bianchini, Co-Founder Of Ning, On What’s Next For Social Media:

“We are definitely at a point where the supply of things to do online is at a dramatic overcapacity relative to what we can actually do in our lives as human beings. When you have technology that has an infinite supply of possibility and you have finite time, at a certain point, people shut down.”

 

 

So how close are you to social media fatigue? Read More

Define Web 2.0 (I Swear It is Interesting)

September 8, 2011 | evolvedmommy | 3 Comments

Lately I’ve seen the term Web 2.0 a lot. Now I may be late to the party, but I’m not one to let something like this slide without figuring out exactly what it is and what it means.

Apparently, the term was first coined in ’99, but really started to gain traction in ’05 and is becoming quite common now (again… late to the party).

Basically, it’s not a specific program or application or piece of software. It’s a broad generalization about the state of the web today, which means what? INTERACTION!

Where Web 1.0 was Netscape, Web 2.0 is Google. Read More

Beyonce Pregnancy News At MTV VMAs Sets Twitter Record | TechCrunch

August 30, 2011 | evolvedmommy | 2 Comments

 

 

Beyonce’s announcement at the VMAs last night that she is indeed pregnant netted over 8,800 tweets per Read More

10 Blogging Lessons from the Dalai Lama

August 5, 2011 | evolvedmommy | One Comment

 

So this spring I went to see the Dalai Lama when he came to the University of Arkansas. I was so proud of our little under-educated state for Read More

How To Make Real Connections Using Social Media

August 2, 2011 | evolvedmommy | One Comment

If you are an entrepreneur, a small business owner, or a community activist the idea of putting your brand or message out there in the social media world can be scary. You might worry that you will say something wrong; or that you are behind the technology; or that getting out there will backfire; or maybe that your competition is better at using social media than you are.
Between Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and a slew of lesser social networks the idea of getting in there and really getting to know people can seem impossibly overwhelming. It’s not.
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Five Google+ Tips | A Social Media Guide for the Modern Mom

July 19, 2011 | evolvedmommy

Google+ (plus.google.com) is the new social network created by Google which is like a combination of Twitter and Facebook. Some people are having a hard time wrapping their head around it so I’m here to give you five tips to help you wade into the pool that is Google+.
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