TechMamas - Bio For Beth Blecherman

TECHMAMAS FOUNDER/EDITOR & CHIEF TECHNOLOGY MOM (CTM): 

TechMama and TechMamas is a trademark of Beth Blecherman

Short bio:

Beth Blecherman is the Chief Technologist of Cool Mom Tech, the intersection between tech, parenting and style.  She left her position as a Senior Manager at Deloitte for Family Management then decided to blog as a career 2.0. Her personal blog is TechMamas.com (@TechMama ), a platform,to discuss technology, social media and her obsession with consumer electronics.In 2006 she joined on as one of the Co-Founders to Silicon Valley Moms Group (a mom blog network that covered over 11 regions). In 2010 Silicon Valley Moms Group was sold to Technorati.

In 2009 she was chosen as one of the Nielson Power Mom 50 influencers. In 2010 a Parents Magazine Power Mom, Forbes 100 Best Websites for Women for 2010 & 2011 and @ForbesWoman Best Branded Women on Twitter. Just recently, she was included in the PC Mag Top 100 on Twitter and the Time 140 Best Twitter Feeds. In Sept 2011 Beth was listed on the Working Mother's list of Most Powerful Moms in Social Media.

Beth is a host of MommytoMommy.tv, a new online show for moms.

TechMama Goes Hot Mama - Guest Celebrity from Kimberley Blaine on Vimeo.

 

Her favorite conference is CES and she is proud to be on theBoard of Advisors (and speak at) for MommyTechSummit at CES.

Beth consults with companies that have products for the family tech audience. One of her current clients is Nukotoys. There most current product is a trading game for the iPod/iPad called Monsterology (more to come!).

On TV: Beth appeared on Channel 7's Live show for a tech segment discussing tech solutions for traveling with kids:

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Beth Blecherman is a techie turned blogger mom turned authority on "Technology For Moms & Family" trends speaker, gadget expert and social media consultant. She is more then a mom blogger who discusses technology, she is a tech blogger that happens to be a mom (and is proud of the fact!).

In 2006 she joined on as one of the Co-Founders to Silicon Valley Moms Group (a mom blog network that covered over 11 regions). In 2010 Silicon Valley Moms Group was sold to Technorati.

Beth Blecherman (TechMama) has been covered in Wall Street Journal, Laptop Magazine,MSNBC, Parents.com, BBC, PBS, Forbes.com, Advertising Age and written articles for Real Simple and Scholastastic.com. She started her career in application development, system auditing, and then Senior Manager, Computer Process Integrity, for Deloitte.  After senior management she decided to take on family management and started blogging as her career 2.0.

Beth founded TechMamas.com,  a tech blog with a parenting slant, as a platform to discuss technology and gadgets for families. She also consults with companies on blogger outreach, outreach to "digital moms" and social media strategies as well as TRENDS for technologies and families.  She is active in twitter as TechMama and regularly speaks at conferences on parenting, social media and technology.Beth is lucky to have a fabulous hubby who she will call "TechDad" and three amazing tech boys.

OTHER CURRENT PROJECTS

COOL MOM TECH:  Beth Blecherman's newest pursuit is Chief Technologist of Cool Mom Tech, the intersection of tech and style, of parenting, practicality and fabulosity, brought to you by the same moms behind the influential shopping and design site, Cool Mom Picks.

MOMMYTECH AT CES: Beth Blecherman is on the Board of Advisors for MommyTech summit at CES. Click here to visit the website for more details. Click here to see the exciting details about MommyTech CES 2011 (including a Fashion Show).

One of the co-hosts of MommytoMommyTV. My show was "TechMama goes HotMama". More to come...

On TV, I enjoy discussing Family Tech. Here a link to my appearance on Channel 7 Live discussing tech solutions for traveling with kids.

ADVISING:

Beth Blecherman is currently advising Nukotoys.com. They are coming out with an exciting line of game apps. The first one is called "Monsterology".

Beth also has other clients to help them with beta testing tech products for families and social media outreach.

Beth Blecherman met with the team of a new social curation tool called "Pearltrees" while on a Traveling Geeks trip to Paris. She advised Pearltrees on social media outreach.

Post: Understanding Pearltrees: A New Way To Organize Web Content

 

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MORE FUN STUFF:

TWITTER: Thrilled to have over 15K Twitter followers (hugs to my Twitter Followers).

Beth Blecherman a.k.a TechMama was choosen as one of the Nielson Power Mom 50 influencers and Forbes list of top 100 websites for women.

Was choosen BizTechDay's 25 Influential Business Women in Bay Area to Follow on Twitter, by MomBloggerClub on the 25 Influential Moms to Follow on Twitter, American Express Open Forum's 75 Top Twitter Tips From Today's Small Business Moms, Advertising Age article on Diverse "Twilebrities, She Knows 20 Moms to Follow On Twitter and Parent's Magazine's Virtual Power Mom list.

Recently she was included in the PC Mag Top 100 and the Time 140 Best Twitter Feeds and 2011 Forbes top 100 websites for women and  Working Mother's list of Most Powerful Moms in Social Media.

Interested in Beth's services as a blogger, speaker or consultant for your company? Please email her at techmamas(at)gmail(dot)com.

TechMama in Books:

       Professional Blogging for Dummies by Susan Getgood

The Internet Mommy by Kimberley Clayton Blaine - My chapter is about a pillow fight I covered on TWITTER!

See Mom Run by Beth Feldman - My chapter is called "Night of Horror, i.e. The Night the Wireless Went Out ".  Here is a link to my post on the See Mom Run book.

SO HONORED:;

June 2010: Forbes Woman: Beth Blecherman/TechMamas.com is on Forbes list of Top 100 websites for  women and top 10 best sites for Working Mothers. June 2010

NIELSON: Beth Blecherman a.k.a TechMama was chosen as one of the Nielson Power Mom 50 influencers.

PARENTS.COM: Beth Blecherman/TechMama was choosen as one of Parents Magazine's Power Moms.

ADVERTISING AGE article on diverse "twilebrities" to follow: Vanity Fair's 'Tweethearts' Offer Narrow View of America" Jan 2010 by Rochelle Valsaint

AMERICAN EXPRESS OPEN FORUM "75 Top Twitter Tips From Today's Small Business Moms" DEC 2009 by Linsey Knerl

She Knows: 20 Moms To Follow On Twitter

LifeScoop: Top 10 Wired Mom Blogs

Included in BrandMarketingEssentials/ M2Moms Blog list of Blogs on Marketing to Moms

ALLTOP: Proud to be listed in Alltop Moms

SO MUCH TECHIE FUN: 

JOINED THE TRAVELING GEEKS 09 TRIP TO PARIS to meet with french startups and attend LeWeb. Here are my 2 posts from TravelingGeeks09 (DEC 2009):

1. Geek is a Global Language - But Twitter is Not (yet)

2. Traveling Geeks Paris 09: Microblog via Twitter

SONYMOM: Covered the red carpet for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

In LAPTOP MAGAZINE (online and print article):  Be a Better Tech Parent by Dana Wollman on November 23, 2009

ONE OF THE DISTINGUISHED BLOGGERS FOR EMBARK ON USS NIMITZ: Techmamas: Blogger Adventure on the USS Nimitz

HP/Vivienne Tam: Covered Fashion Week Launch of HP Mini notebook Vivienne Edition

CBS NEWS KATIE COURIC:  Coordinated conference call and the Silicon Valley Moms Group to discuss the topic of Children and the Recession.

CBS News Meet The Parents (Who Blog) with Katie Couric on YouTube, April 2008

Beth organized a visit for the SV Mom bloggers to meet Katie Couric! (See Beth to the right of Katie.)

Writing Assignments (other then the blogosphere):

REAL SIMPLE Blogothan: Top Five Multi-Functional Technologies For Busy Moms

SCHOLASTIC: Take a Byte Out of Life

TechMama on Video:

One of the Hosts of MommytoMommyTV:

TechMama Goes Hot Mama - Guest Celebrity from Kimberley Blaine on Vimeo

LA Moms Bloggers get VIP at Chelsea Lately

Radio Shack Netogether -Beth Blecherman & tech blogger friends were on a 17 foot computer screen in Times Square NYC and SF. Here is my post, here is a post from TechieDiva who was in NYC.

Video and Picture as the SonyMom's covered the Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs Red Carpet

Gadgetspin video of Virgin America Orange County launch party.

  A Byte Out of Life sponsored by Yahoo: Twitter and Celebrities

 Who's Following You on Twitter?

PBS at SXSW 2009: Beth Blecherman Interview

CNET TV: Speaking on Internet TV and Kids

KTVU: Speaking on moms going back to work

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:

140ConfNYC Borne Today: Innovating for the future

CES Speaker: MommyTech Summit at CES 2010: Beth Blecherman is on the Board of Advisors and will be speaking on 2 panels: Mommy Power 101, Mommy Tech Makeover

BlogHer09 Gadgets for Bloggers and am speaking at BlogHer10: Online Branding

SXSW 2009 Session title "Moms Who Tech"

M2Moms: Brands & Blogs: What's Working? What's Next?     

GOOGLE: Digital Moms Panel 

Social Media Business Council: The Challenge of Mommy Blogging   

           WEB 2.0: Birds of a Feather "Moms Who Tech"

BlogHer Business ’08: Successful Social Media Outreach

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Part 2

PAST PROJECTS:

SILICON VALLEY MOMS GROUP: She was a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Mom of the Silicon Valley Moms Group, collaborative mom blogs in cities across the country. Silicon Valley Moms Group was sold to Technorati.

YAHOO: Motherboard panel, participant in Yahoo! Video Network project with Silicon Valley Moms Group. Our first video was on the Economy and the holidays.

PRESS:

Mashable:June 2010 @momfluential (Ciaran Blumenfeld)  and @techmama quoted in @Mashable post: 3 Key Location Trends for Moms  by Noa Gafni @queenbee101 

Best Pet Apps - Galtime Video

Laptop Magazine April 2010: "Gadgets Mommy Bloggers Want For Mother's Day "

Reuters/ Leah Eichler: April 2010 Will Women Buy the iPad?

LAPTOP MAGAZINE (online and print):

1. Be a Better Tech Parent by Dana Wollman on November 23, 2009

2 Best Kid-Friendly Netbooks for Kids  by K. T. Bradford November 24th, 2009

Mentioned Moms Gone Wired"  in the Dallas Observer News

TRENDHUNTER Magazine: "Targeting Tech-Savvy Moms", April 2009

The Digital Design Blog: "Moms Who Tech: Lessons Learned From The Web 2.0 Expo", April 2009

WALL STREET JOURNAL blogs: "SXSW Roundup: “Moms Who Tech”, March 2009 By Rachel Emma Silverman

 BBC: "The rising power of geek mums", (podcast), March 2009

 PBS: SXSW interview, March 2009

 BlogTalkRadio: PEPSICO Digital Speak Easy interview, March 2009

 KTVU Channel 2: Stay at Home Moms Trying to Produce Income, January 2009

 Forbes.com Video Network: High-Tech Babysitting, July 2008

CBS News: SF Conference Highlights Surge in Blogging Women, July 2008

Forbes.com "When Moms Packs A Gadget", May 2008

 CBS News Meet The Parents (Who Blog) with Katie Couric on YouTube, April 2008

Beth organized a visit for the SV Mom bloggers to meet Katie Couric! (See Beth to the right of Katie.)

 New York Times Blog Caucus: "Women, Politics & The Internet Part II", October 2007

 San Jose Metroactive: (With the other Silicon Valley Mommybloggers) "The Hand That Blogs The Cradle", September 2006

       

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