{"id":6496,"date":"2012-01-04T14:17:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T19:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=6496"},"modified":"2012-01-04T14:17:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T19:17:39","slug":"monetizing-mommyhood-coming-this-weekend-to-a-radio-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/monetizing-mommyhood-coming-this-weekend-to-a-radio-near-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Monetizing Mommyhood – coming this weekend to a radio near you"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/span>hen I was in Toronto for the Blissdom Canada<\/a> conference, I had the chance to speak to CBC’s Ira Basen about mom blogs, sponsorships, advertising and working with brands. It was an interesting conversation, especially as I tried to mentally juggle my relationship with Fisher-Price and Mom Central Canada (the sponsors who brought me to Blissdom Canada) and my own strongly held opinions on the matter. You can tune in this Sunday to CBC Radio’s The Sunday Edition<\/a> to see how it all turned out. Here’s the aper\u00c3\u00a7ue from the Sunday Edition web site<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There are four million mommy bloggers in North America, women sharing with other women the trials and tribulations of bringing up babies and making more and more money at the same time.<\/p>\n

In the past decade, social media for mommies has gone from a nurturing, supportive, chat-across-the-back-fence virtual village to a massive marketing vehicle for everyone from toy companies to the makers of minivans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the site you can also hear a quick promo of the show, featuring one of my biggest bloggy crushes and the woman I coincidentally befriended on the shuttle ride from the airport to Blissdom, Bonnie Stewart<\/a>. Thanks to Judy Gombita on Google+, here’s a list of some of the others featured in the documentary:<\/p>\n

PhD In Parenting \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Annie Urban http:\/\/www.phdinparenting.com\/
\n5 Minutes for Mom \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Janice Croze http:\/\/www.5minutesformom.com\/
\nCommon Cents Mom \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Hollie Pollard http:\/\/commoncentsmom.com\/
\nCrib Chronicles \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Bonnie Stewart http:\/\/cribchronicles.com\/
\nMom Central Canada \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Cora Brady http:\/\/www.momcentralcanada.com\/
\nFisher Price play panel http:\/\/www.fisherpriceplay.ca\/moms\/
\nChild\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Play Communications \u00e2\u20ac\u201cStephanie Azzarone http:\/\/childsplaypr.com\/<\/p>\n

Judy also quotes Ira Basen’s summary of the 27-minute documentary:<\/p>\n

“It is basically about the pros and cons commercialization of the social media space, and mommy blogs are the best example of that. On the one hand, the bloggers who have chosen to monetize their blogs by hooking up with brands via sponsorships, sponsored posts, compensation etc., are being rewarded for the work they do and are providing a service that many readers must find valuable. On the other hand, as one person (Bonnie Stewart of PEI) says in the piece…<\/p>\n

‘There are people now who are perceiving that social media is a great way to build platforms so that you can get a corporate job being a brand spokesperson for Kraft Foods, but they are not necessarily as interested, and possibly not even as aware of the creator\/consumer model on which original social media was based. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure that the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m here as a consumer of opportunity, in a space that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crowded with marketers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is social media. I have a feeling that that might just be an interactive way of getting eyeballs and shilling for traditional corporate interests. And if enough people allow that to become the norm, then I think a lot of the power and potential of social media goes away.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Heh, you can totally tell why I have a blog crush on Bonnie after reading that, eh?<\/p>\n

I’d almost forgotten about this and was pleased to hear that it wasn’t relegated to the cutting room floor. If you’re curious, tune in this Sunday to CBC Radio One. It’s currently scheduled to run at 9:13 am, barring interference from pesky world events and breaking current affairs. You can stream it from CBC Radio<\/a>, too, or catch the full-length podcast after the fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was in Toronto for the Blissdom Canada conference, I had the chance to speak to CBC’s Ira Basen about mom blogs, sponsorships, advertising and working with brands. It was an interesting conversation, especially as I tried to mentally juggle my relationship with Fisher-Price and Mom Central Canada (the sponsors who brought me to … Continue reading “Monetizing Mommyhood – coming this weekend to a radio near you”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta-blogging","category-my-15-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6499,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496\/revisions\/6499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}