So, you've decided to start a blog. Congratulations! So what now, you ask? Well, there are a few skills and tricks I've learned while blogging here and on other personal blogs, some of which I'll share with you today. Ready to dive in? Let's get started! Stick to what you know — It doesn't make much sense to start a blog about vintage cars if you're totally into fashion and beauty. Pick a Read more

You have been blogging up a storm lately! To reward all of your hard work, why not turn your blog into a book? It's all the rage these days, you know. With Blog2Print, you can pick and choose excerpts from your digital journal to be printed (on actual paper!), and bound into an attractive coffee table tome. Think of it like an old school keepsake! This would be perfect for a food blogger who Read more

We've all been there — you fall in love, flowers bloom, the sun shines, everything is great . . . until you get that phone call that starts with, "We need to talk." You know what comes next — you're getting dumped. And although breaking up face-to-face may be rough and super emotional, let's get real — there are worse ways to get the bad news. Dating is hard enough to begin with, and Read more

Despite the fact that Bill Gates can't use Facebook, he was able to join Twitter last week, and start his own blog to highlight the work he's been doing with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation since stepping down as CEO of Microsoft. As you can imagine, his Twitter account blew up faster than a suggested user list, and is now followed by over 300,000 people. Between his busy tweeting and Read more

If everybody gets 15 minutes of fame, do mamas who blog for their children get 30? With moms and dads tweeting, blogging, and updating their Facebook statuses about their lil ones around the clock, many of the sites look more like parenting outlets than the social networking spaces they were in their early days. Seventy-five percent of LilSugar readers believe it is OK to blog about their Read more

In the movie Motherhood, which opens today, Uma Thurman plays a multitasking stay-at-home mom trying to raise two kiddos and keep up her passion for writing. Her busy schedule of feedings, cleaning, meal making, and party planning means she has to sneak short moments of computer time in wherever she can. She blogs in 10-minute increments at her desk while baby plays, at the playground, and even Read more