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July 15th 2009 by admin

1	Heather Armstrong	Heather has won numerous awards for her work on dooce.com including Best American Blog, Weblog of the Year and in 2008 she received a Lifetime Achievement award. Heather was also named in Forbes’ “The Web Celeb 25″ in 2009 and has been profiled in many publications including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Today Show, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
2	Alice Bradley	Finslippy, has been featured in the Berkeley Fiction Review, Fence Magazine, PBS.org, Good Housekeeping, the Onion, and other various publications. She has contributed to several anthologies and holds an M.F.A. in writing from the New School.
3	Daphne Brogdon	Cool Mom hosts TV Guide Channel’s “The Fashion Team,” writes for Star Magazine’s “Worst of the Week,” contributes to CNN Headline’s Showbiz Tonight and Pregnancy Magazine, and hosts FOX’s web show 24 Inside. She has also appeared on shows such as Dr. Phil and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
4	Asha Dornfest	Dornfest began writing about parenthood after her son and daughter – now eight and four – were born. Asha has been writing professionally for over ten years and is the author of several books about Web publishing, the most popular of which is Microsoft FrontPage For Dummies.
5	Giyen Kim	Kim is an emerging blogger who writes Bacon Is My Enemy. She is a 10- year nonprofit veteran who is now an independent management consultant and freelance writer. She is currently transitioning her career into the realm of writing and social media.
6	Dana Loesch	Dana blogs at Mamalogues and hosts her own radio show, The Dana Show, on KFTK 97.1 FM Talk. In addition, Dana has contributed to many St. Louis based publications and was named the Riverfront Times Best Columnist of 2007 for her popular newspaper column on motherhood. She was also selected as one of St. Louis’s “30 Under 30″ by the St. Louis Business Journal in 2008.
7	Maggie Mason	Mason is a writer for Mighty Mighty Media, home of the award-winning shopping blogs Mighty Goods, Mighty Junior, and Mighty Haus. She is also the author of No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog. Her sites have been among Time Magazine’s Top 50 Cool Sites of the Year, and she was recently named on Now Public’s list of the top 50 most influential people in Silicon Valley.
8	Mindy Roberts	Roberts is the writer of The Mommy Blog and the author of Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood. She is recently divorced and a single mom to three young children – 10-year-old son Logan, 8-year-old son Dylan, and 6-year-old daughter Daphne. Mindy worked in the nonprofit sector for twelve years before focusing mostly on her writing.
9	Karen Walrond	Walrond is a photographer, writer, and public speaker who began her career in Corporate America, first as a structural engineer and later in law. Her blog, Chookooloonks, has been featured in Blogosphere: Best of Blogs and was named one of the Best Adoption Blogs on the Web by Adoptive Families Magazine.
10	Rebecca Woolf	Woolf is a blogger, freelance writer, and the author of Rockabye: From Wild to Child, a memoir about how her life changed when she became a mom. The book is based on her popular personal blog, Girl’s Gone Child. Rebecca has contributed writing to MSN, Nerve.com, SMITH magazine, and The Huffington Post.
11	Techy Mom	Alex has been teaching technology for the last 15 years. She is currently teaching high school web design and is a mom of two wonderful boys (ages 5 and 9). On Techy Mom’s Blog she posts about new trends, tutorials, social media, and technology.
12	Ann Harrison	Harrison is happily married and a mother of two girls. She started blogging because her family appreciated her stories and her mom always encouraged her to share them with the world. A sense of humor gets her through the tough days.
13	Stephanie Click	Click is a wife, mother of two, and a lover of life. She is a native of Kentucky, and currently resides in a Houston, Texas suburb where she works as a writer/editor for a mega-church. Stephanie enjoys blogging, social media, saving money, and experiencing all the random things that seem to happen to her.
14	FireMom	In her free time, FireMom enjoys writing, singing, reading, photography, activism and the great outdoors. She blogs about the family side of fire life at Stop, Drop and Blog. She also writes about life as an open adoption birth mother at The Chronicles of Munchkin Land and contributes to various other sites.
15	Scraps of My Geek Life	The Internet has been a part of Michelle’s life since she met her husband on AOL 16 years ago and she has been very involved with mom groups both on and offline for 13 years. She started her blog, Scraps of My Geek Life in order to keep her online friends and family up to date with pictures and stories.
16	Angie	Angie runs several businesses including a photography business, a design service & boutique, and Buy By Mom – a place to promote and support WAHMs. Blogging is her outlet, and she loves meeting other Mom Bloggers.
17	Amanda Rudolph Shwartz	Amanda spent her twenties working in journalism and television and has written for TV via the Disney Channel, MTV and the WB. She has also written for several publications including Los Angeles Magazine, InStyle, The New York Daily News, and Variety. She served as an editor on the launch team of E! Online and as their first TV columnist.
18	Amy Swift	Swift is the founder of SMARTY, a Los Angeles and Orange County based community for entrepreneurial and freelancing women which delivers events and workshops dedicated to launching or growing a business. Amy was the founding editor in chief of Ladies Who Launch, co-wrote the Incubator program and co-authored of Ladies Who Launch: Creativity and Entrepreneurship as a Lifestyle (St. Martin’s 2006.)
19	The Smart Mama	The Smart Mama (who goes by Jeniffer in real life) runs an eco-consulting business focusing on simple steps to reduce and eliminate toxic chemicals around the home and going green. She is the author of The Smart Mama’s Green Guide: Simple Steps to Non Toxic Babies from Hachette Book Group USA.
20	Kimberley Clayton Blaine	Kimberley is an author, national parenting expert and a licensed Family and Child Therapist who specializes in working with children ages newborn to six years old. Kimberley is the executive producer of a grassroots webshow, called www.TheGoToMom.TV.