Nielsen Top 50 Power Moms in Digital Media
May 11, 2009
May has been a rough month for me blogwise. (Didja notice??)
A week long battle with the Flu in our house followed by 8 days on the road – oh yes, there are blogs coming from those 3 events as well!! – meant that the first time I could even think about blogging something coherently was this past weekend. Annnnd I didn’t.
But on Friday May 8th I got the most unexpected and welcome surprise. I woke up to find I was on the Nielsen Top 50 Power Moms in Digital Media list. (page 5 under Tech Moms – it’s an MS PowerPoint presentation – if you need a free viewer go here)
What does that mean? Well, according to the report:
Nielsen Online’s Power Mom 50 is a collection of leading voices in the mom blogosphere based on a blend of blog posts, comments and link love developed through ongoing monitoring of more than 10,000 mom and parenting blogs as tracked by Nielsen Buzzmetrics. In addition to site engagement, number of Twitter followers, ratings and other metrics were included in the calibration to provide a comprehensive sphere of authority and influence.
I was a little stunned, truth be told. Because I have been so absent from this space of late. But then looking at the stats clearly shows that… In fact, it was just the push I needed to get blogging again.
Then while I was perusing the list of other Moms, two things occurred to me:
- I know a lot of those women. Most of them, in fact. And I’m completely in agreement with Nielsen that they are amazing, influential, insightful Moms and social media voices. It’s just an amazing honor to be listed amongst them. Almost as much of an honor as it is to know them and to work with them in this space.
- This isn’t really about me – it’s about you. Without those connections I have through this blog, through Twitter, and through other Social Networking sites, I might as well be standing in an empty field shouting to myself. This is really not just about me… it’s about US. You and me together, and all of the people we interact with all over the Internet. I’m in awe of the power of technology to bring us all together and give us this voice.
So I want to take a minute right NOW (before writing another post or updating another status) to Thank You. Whether you’re a reader, a fellow blogger, one of the companies I work with or even just someone who Googled your way here? This would never have happened if it weren’t for you too.
You are amazing – and I aspire to live up to your faith in me. Thank you.
Ethical Hacking – Beating Bad Guys for Fun & Profit (giveaway)
May 11, 2009
Quick! What do you think of when I say WarGames? Sneakers? Hackers?
If you aren’t stuck with an image of a young, blonde Angelina Jolie in your mind’s eye right now, then you are probably scanning over this sentence to see where I’m going with this and wishing I’d get to the part about hacking faster and explain the title of this post already!!
Recently, the amazing folks at Izea contacted me about a Certified Ethical Hacker Course valued at $2,895 from the EC-Council. Of course, my thought was “cool… where do I sign up? Oh wait, my security skills are way out of date. I don’t even work in the field any more!!”
Fortunately for both you and me, they weren’t suggesting that I should leave the cushy world of motherhood, blogging and social media and try to get into the highly competitive (but still damn cool and well-paying) world of Network Security.
They were thinking that I might want to be able to offer the chance for one of my readers to WIN an entire Ethical Hacking iClass package which would normally cost you (or your company) $2,895. This includes the books, lab manual, and online class.
We’re talking about Security Fundamentals, Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing, Computer Forensics, Disaster Recovery, and Secure Programming here folks.
Seriously – there’s so much actually in the course that I can’t even begin to list it all here. Just check the course site & you’ll see. This is hard-core. So if you’re in the field and want to bolster up your credentials with a globally recognized certification, or you’re wanting to finally get your foot in the IT Security door (and this would be much more convincing to an employer than those scripts & bots you’ve played with) or you are just burnnnning to get back to work and know how much something like this is really worth in today’s economy – read on.
There are two ways enter and you can do one, either, or both!!
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