Beautiful women who make you feel good

One of the people that I met on the #ONEMums trip to Ethiopia was the amazing Karen, who blogs at Chookooloonks. The site is hard to spell but beautiful to see. Karen had been on a previous #ONEMums trip and was the official photographer for our trip, so when we wanted to put down the camera or the phone and just concentrate on the stories of the people we were meeting, we could. Karen’s involved in seemingly...

My guest post in the NY Times Motherlode blog

I’ve got a blog post up on the New York Times’s Motherlode blog, written by the amazing Lisa Belkin, about the response in the UK to How I Don’t Know How She Does It, and the problems that vex working mothers even at the highest levels. Check out Jenography on Motherlode...

MeTV: Jenography on Figaro Social Media panel

The week before last I appeared on a panel at a social media conference organised by Figaro, along with Paul Fox from XBox, Carrie Longton from Mumsnet, and Dan Heale who works with our friends over at Digital Outlook. We talked about how families use social media and what works for companies who reach out to those families. It was a really interesting discussion with loads of time for questions from the floor. One...

A night out with Jenography and Family Affairs

This week I’m attending two interesting events and have extra tickets to both. Are there any bloggers out there interested? Wednesday evening, April 6 – Namibia, drinks and Charlie Boorman On Weds 6 April I’m attending Network Namibia’s annual event with Family Affairs and Other Matters. It will be an evening at the Royal Geographic Society in Kensington focussing on the conservation efforts...

Let’s not get squeamish about science

The kerfuffle about Robert Winston’s lesson in Jamie’s Dream School, in which teenage boys look at anonymised samples of their own sperm, is making me laugh. The noted professor of Science and Society at Imperial College London has spent a lesson – soon to be broadcast on Channel 4 – having troubled teen boys look at swimming sperm under a microscope. “When pictures of the rapidly...

Jenography featured in SHE magazine

What do Cindy Crawford and I have in common? I know a thousand examples rush to mind, but really the most important right now is that we are both featured in the October 2010 issue of SHE magazine. Cindy is hogging the cover (yes, yes, Cindy, we get it, you’re still hot) while I’m lounging in a much more reserved position of p69 (please, no jokes – it is just too easy). The article is about online...

Thrill! I was on Woman's Hour

It has been a dream of mine ever since I landed on these shores to be a Woman’s Hour guest – one of those women talking in authoritative tones about high-minded topics. Well, I don’t know about the authoritative tone but this morning I did have the opportunity to talk about CyberMummy and the phenomenon of mum blogging. I was in the studio - lots of winding passages, door upon door, then a round...