Wanna Contribute?

When we started bouncing around the idea of creating an on-line parenting resource for the Portland metro area, we really envisioned that eventually the breadth of contributors to the site would expand to include other mamas interested in writing about and sharing their experiences - the good, the bad and the ugly!  In some of the early brainstorming sessions, we hoped to create something like the Berkeley Parenting Network which dear Erica greatly missed since her move away from the Bay Area.  So, here we are, about a year later, with something we strongly feel and hope that could be as useful to us mamas in Portland - this nifty thing we call the urbanMamas blog.  To keep up the momentum we wanted to create with the launch of this site, we are soliciting help from all you mamas out there.  Here's how:

• Send us an email.  Do you have interesting and insightful content for the site? Send us an email at urbanmamas [at] gmail [dot] com with your name, email address, and let us know if and how you'd like to be identified.  We would more than gladly post your column, question, or tidbit of knowledge!  Please understand we get tons of emails a day, and we may need a few days to get back to you.
• Send us info about events.  The urbanMamas calendar is so awesome only because of all your suggestions of fun & wacky & cool things to do in and around Portland.  Have a suggestions for an event for all the mamas, kidlets, and families out there?  Send us an event invite via Outlook, Google Calendar, or any compatible iCAL format and we will add it to our events calendar.  The more info the better, and be sure to include a link where we can find out more.  If you can't send an event invite, feel free to put all the info into an email to us.
• Post on the Childcare Forum.  So you wanna post a childcare related question?  Or maybe you have an opening at your childcare facility or preschool? Or maybe you want to rave about your fabulous nanny?  Or perhaps you're looking to sell / purchase, or pass along goods and services to fellow urbanMamas?  We're testing out a way to allow the urbanMamas community at large to post on the childcare and exchange forum.  Here's how it will work.  We've set up a junior level author account so that you can log into our blogging software directly to compose your question.  The complete instructions are found here.

The urbanMamas community is committed to providing a welcoming, nonjudgmental, open, supportive environment where parents can seek and share parenting advice.  The urbanMamas site is a purely grassroots effort and is maintained on by a few volunteer mamas in their spare time.  urbanMamas reserves the right to unpublish comments deemed to be detrimental to the openness we strive to achieve.