12.21.2008

Mom 2.0 -- Defined

You want to know what Mom 2.0 means? It's about using technology to increase your functionality, efficiency and fun-factor as a mom. The Internet has evolved to a platform that goes beyond sending emails and searching for shopping deals. There are so many ways to enhance your role as a mom (or dad) by accessing and embracing the best of what the Internet has to offer. For example, you ask?

  • using a webcam to video chat on a daily basis so that your kids can talk to your parents who live 3000 miles away
  • signing up for an alert system online so that if there's an emergency at your school, all parents can be emailed/phoned/texted immediately AND simultaneously
  • asking your child to create a playlist from your music subscription (iTunes, Rhapsody) account to be loaded on the MP3 player for the family road trip
Mom 2.0 will offer pithy tech tips in a mom-context that you can read in 5 minutes and implement immediately in order to enrich and add function to your lives. I will also point you in the right direction for something that I can't figure out myself. Know this: one person can't know everything. And that's the beauty of Mom 2.0. We're all in this together.

The smartest people I know always ask for help.

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