Being a Blogging Mama is Hard Work! Who knew?!

I am exhausted, it's almost 1 am and now I just finished my Bloggy work. What is Bloggy work? Something I just made up. But it refers to the act of reading other blogs, following, commenting, participating in events for Bloggers groups etc. It took me several hours of this and now I have a few minutes to share my post.
Many people out there may think that Blogging is easy but it's not, there is so much work that goes into it, it's not just coming up with something to write, that would take a few minutes of your day. But if you want to be successful at this you need to build a community, find people you like and have people find you and like you. You cannot create a community who follows you by simply writing in your personal blog and not doing anything else.
I have joined several Blogging Groups:
Circle of Moms
Social Moms
Bloggy Moms
Mom Bloggers Club
VoiceBoks

and then I have Twitter and Facebook
The good thing about all these websites is that you get to meet other Bloggers like you, there is a strong sense of community and we help each other out. The bad thing about it is that it takes a lot of time and effort to do it right, to have time to find the other blogs that really appeal to you, to create connections, to make friends. Because the main purpose of my Blog is to impact people in a good way, to help people, to inspire.
Right now I sit here, thinking whether I should do the dishes or not, and also notice the pile of laundry that I never got to put away after washing it. I guess tomorrow is another day.
If you are a blogger I recommend you check out the Groups I have mentioned, it is worth it, and if you are already a member of them, how do you find the time to do everything? Do you have some tricks? A routine? I work part time outside the house and today I had my Women's Writing Group and had to take my daughter to the eye doctor, so had a full day. How do you squeeze time for everything?

Sixth Annual Brooklyn Blogfest 2011 - Be There!

Last week I was asked to do a mini workshop on Blogging for our Brooklyn's Women's Writing Workshop. As I prepared my workshop guidelines and reviewed my notes from the AWESOMEST eBook on Blogging for Women "Blogging in Pink: A woman's guide" I remembered how I first found out about Blogs and how I got interested in them to begin with and I remembered the Brooklyn Blog Fest. Two years ago I was reading a local Brooklyn Family magazine and saw an article about Louise Crawford a mom Blogger who runs the BlogFest. I found out where the BlogFest was, and headed myself out there with barely a day's worth of planning for it. I went by myself, I didn't know anyone, I did not talk to many people either but I sat there and I gathered information, took many business cards, and the whole concept seeped into my blood and it became a goal of mine to become a Blogger.
Last year I found out about the even the day before the even, and when I tried to get tickets they had been sold out. I was very disappointed, but this year I get another chance, and an even better one because for the first time I am going to the Blogfest not as a simple observer but as an actual Blogger. This time I won't feel embarrassed when people ask me, What's the name of your Blog? What do you Blog about? This time I plan of having Business Cards! I am a real Blogger, finally! I get a chance to mingle with hundreds of Brooklyn Bloggers, I will get the chance of getting my name out there and increasing the readership of my site. I am so excited I can hardly contain myself!
So anyway, I encourage all of you to go ahead and buy your tickets now, they do sell fast. It is $15 but with fee's and such it end's up being about $18.88

If you plan on going send me a shout out and maybe I'll see you there in person. :)

Happy Blogging!! :)