First of all, I love mommy bloggers. They are so fascinating, entertaining, and inspiring. The first obstacle of my reserach has been to narrow down how many mommy blogs I am going to follow consistently, because there are soooo many out there and only so many hours in day (many of which must be devoted to other things like finding nourishment, working off too much nourishment, writing papers for OTHER classes, doing the laundry, and things of that nature).
So I have officially narrowed down my list of blogs to follow. Okay, I shouldn’t say officially, because chances are I will stumble across some new webpage that I just LOVE in the next few days. However, I just finished writing a questionare that I plan to send to the moms I am following most closely. I hope I get lots of helpful responses, even though I know they are all busy and have a ton of other things to do.
But here is the other thing…part of my research involves being involved in the mommy blog community as much as I can, even though I’m not officially a mom (yet…hope to be someday). So my own blog is part of my research. The great thing is that my blog readership has at least TRIPLED since I started this research project, but the bad thing is that most of my readers don’t officially “follow” my blog (there is a button to “follow” me on the righhand column of the blog) or subscribe (which I just added). Although I am blessed, and honestly a little surprised, that so many people have been reading my blog, it would help me immensely if you would connect by officially following me (and you don’t even need to have your own blog to do it, you just need an e-mail address and I know you have one of those!). This will help me with my research by letting me know who is reading my own blog and by giving me more connections and resources in the mommy blogging community. And you don’t have to be a mom. I have stumbled across many good mom blogs from friends who are not moms. I am also interested in women who are just involved in the blogging community in general or who use their blog as an online business (do you sew? craft? make jewelry? cook? do photography? simply advertise on your site?)… basically I want to hear from any woman who uses blogging as a narrative space to write about life, support a business, build community, etc. Studying mommy bloggers may lead to lots of other online research. So please follow me so I can connect with you and contact you if necessary.
*And if you have any ideas or comments on blogging, why you do it, or what the blogging community means to you, please share your thoughts here, as well as a link to your own blog. I would love to check it out!
