Feel the Pulse!

If any of you follow me on Twitter, you likely know a good friend of mine and I recently started a blog about Orlando and the Central Florida area, called ''Pulse of Central Florida.'' Actually, we launched it last week. Already we're seeing some decent traffic, and folks seem engaged via comments to our posts. I'm really excited about this, and am looking forward to watching it grow over the coming months.

If you haven't checked it out yet, visit http://pulseofcentralflorida.wordpress.com. We're going to purchase PulseofCentralFlorida.com in the next couple of weeks, and just redirect to there.

If you are a resident of the Central Florida area and have any suggestions about what we should talk about, please feel free to leave them in the comments section here, or e-mail me.

Mommy bloggers determined to change the face of a nation.

Because of my job and my personal interest in blogging and social media, I somehow managed to get signed up for a newsletter distributed by the Chicago Moms Blog. A few days ago a newsletter dropped into my inbox, titled "Open Letter to the Presidential Candidates." I was immediately intrigued.

In a nutshell, this network of women bloggers (Silicon Valley, Chicago, New York, and DC Metro Moms Blogs) is pushing an open call for the Presidential candidates to meet with them, and discuss the issues they feel are important and relevant to them (the bloggers).

What a great testimony of the power of social media. I'll be watching closely to see if any of the candidates respond.