I can't believe I'm 1/3 of the way through the 31DBBB challenge ! I'm having a blast & really learning a lot as I go! Today's task involved setting up Alerts to monitor what's happening in your niche online! I already had Google Alerts set up for several things like babywise, sleep training, sleeping through the night & natural labor. I set up new ones for Ingenue Mom, ingenuemom, baby recalls, cloth diapers, GroVia & mom blogs. I have all my alerts going to my Google Reader as a feed! That's the easiest way for me to keep up with them. As for Twitter, I used Twitter Search to set up RSS feeds for several words or phrases including mom blog, cloth diapers & GroVia. I already use HootSuite & I've set up a keyword search on my dashboard so that I always get the 31DBBB tweets. I find that really helpful! My experience so far with the Google Alerts hasn't been that great, mainly because I set it up as email alerts & I got annoye...
I'm a 38 year old divorced (& now married again), mom of 3 girls (ages 13, 10 and 6). I read. I write. I love people dearly. I have lots of words.