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Parentdish Update

emma — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:30:34 +0000

As you may already know, we’ve been working on AOL’s Parentdish UK site for a while now, and it’s been enjoying a successful few months of late, including a steady increase in traffic, some great articles that have spawned some interesting discussions, and an entry into the Top 100 British Mummy Bloggers!

The British Mummy Bloggers list is updated monthly and voted for by blog readers, so it’s encouraging to see that we’re moving up the chart each time it’s published.

We have a strong writing team at the moment, and so we’re not currently looking for any more regular writers. However, we would like to hear from you if you have any one-off feature ideas. Please contact us here with your pitch.

Don’t forget, you can also follow Parentdish on Twitter.

The Sway #2: Featuring Gemma Cartwright!

emma — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:52:50 +0000

Following on from the success of the previous Sway event, we are delighted to announce that the next The Sway event has been confirmed for the 21st July. We can also confirm that Gemma Cartwright, creator of Big Girls Browse and editor of The Nod, will be one of the Sway debaters.

To find out a little more about Gemma, click here for our interview
For those who were unable to attend the first Sway event in May, have a listen to the podcasts on The Sway website from the debaters.

To attend the event, you can either request an invite from the Sway website, or from the Sway MeetUp group. For up to date information you can also follow The Sway on Twitter

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

The Sway #2: Back for a second helping!

Katie Lee — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:00:26 +0000

Miramus helped to organise the (if I do say so myself) excellent Sway event in May, and it’s back for a second helping in July. It was a great night, with some really interesting (and short!) talks from some innovative and inspiring web entrepreneurs and general web heads.

I can’t think of another event that’s aimed solely at bloggers, editors and network owners seeking to make money out of their editorial content. Many of the people at the event were people I’ve only ever spoken to on email, or admired from a distance, and putting faces to names made me realise that we should have been running events like this for years.

So if you think you should have been invited (if you run advertising on your blog or website or are monetising it in other ways then this is the event for you), please do request an invite over on the Sway website, or directly via the Sway MeetUp group. You can also follow The Sway on Twitter.

The reason the event is invite only is to protect those attending from being overrun by PRs, widget creators, and other marketeers and developers. There are already plenty of events out there that (quite rightly) allow access for all. But The Sway is solely for those wishing to talk about their businesses with other content providers.

I hope to see you there!

Running AOL’s latest blog: ParentDish UK

Katie Lee — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:17:44 +0000

For the past few months Miramus has been working on a new blog for AOL: ParentDish UK. As the name suggests, this is the UK version of the hugely successful ParentDish blog, and working with AOL to launch the new site for a UK audience has been a great experience.

We’ve got some excellent bloggers working on the site, all with a wide range of blogging, journalism and parenting experience, and the site has already been welcomed into the fold, with some active commenters and some lively debates.

It’s a great read, and we’re really proud to be working on it so do check it out!

ParentDish UK

Want to make money from your website? Come to The Sway!

Katie Lee — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:51:45 +0000

Making money out of websites is one topic that’s always going to get my interest, which is why Miramus has helped to organise an event, sponsored by Skimlinks, especially for bloggers and new media types. The event is meant to be a fairly casual affair, but one that will hopefully be really useful for helping bloggers and publishers find innovative ways to monetise their sites.

The event itself is running to a tight schedule in order to get the very best out of our panel without taking up the entire evening — which will hopefully be a great opportunity for bloggers from all over to meet up with their fellow entrepreneurial web owners and publishers.

If you haven’t had an invite, sign up here and you’ll be added to the list.

And you can read more about the event itself here: The Sway.org

Miramus is helping Skimlinks to spread the word among bloggers

Katie Lee — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:44:30 +0000

We’re currently working with the people over at Skimlinks to help spread the word about their very clever affiliates service. I’m a big fan of Skimlinks (and can’t say enough nice things about Alicia Navarro, their CEO) and I like the simplicity of what they do. We used them when I was at Shiny, adding their code to our site so that any outbound links to merchants would automatically be converted into affiliate links.

Not only did it save us having to make individual deals with the affiliate companies, it also saved our writers having to go to the trouble of inserting affiliate links into posts. Not to mention the fact that writers could get on with their jobs without having their editorial independence compromised — after all, most of the time they were unaware if the site they were linking would convert into an affiliate link or not.

So when Alicia approached Miramus about helping to pimp them out to the web community, we were more than happy to get involved. Stay tuned for more – we’ll be announcing an excellent blogger event very shortly!

Skimlinks