Infertility?? Check Out Alicia's 'Mommy Wannabe Club' To Connect With Others!!

Meet Alicia.

Some of you may know her by her nickname ("Yaya"). I first met Alicia through my local endometriosis (in person) support group. She is a fellow blogger and a strong, inspirational woman who works intently at advocating for patients with a history of infertility and miscarriages/pregnancy loss.

Alicia's passion, drive, determination, caring, humor, and compassion have attracted a flock of readers to her blog. She is helping great numbers of people. It is an honor to call Alicia my friend, to learn from her, to watch her advocacy efforts blossom, and to witness the multitude of ways she is helping others!

She is also becoming a great source of information on adoption and the foster-to-adopt process. Her blog covers all of these issues and much more.

Here is a brief biographical sketch about Alicia from her blog profile:

"Read along in my quest to become a Mommy, one way or another. It's been 6 years and several miscarriages, but I'm not giving up!"

My friend Alicia of the blog Yayastuff has launched a new venture!


Visit Mommy Wannabe Club


She has started a social network called the Mommy Wannabe Club.

Here is her blog post about it:

Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Mommy Wannabe Club

Alicia asked me if I would help her get the word out about her new club. I am honored to assist her efforts in any way I can!


View my page on Mommy Wannabe Club

Perhaps some of you reading this may be interested in joining?

Thank you Alicia for everything you do!!!

This article was posted by Jeanne via "Jeanne's Endo Blog" at www.endendoat.blogspot.com.

Endometriosis Blog: Mixed Results Trying Out Tell-A-Friend For Sharing Posts

Last week was pretty loaded with intense health-related things. So I'd like to lighten things up...

I'm trying out a new social networking tool called Tell-a-Friend. Have any of you tried the Tell-a-Friend tool yet?

Here is how it's supposed to work... It should allow you to share blog posts with those you think might be interested in them via:

* email (various types)
* instant messaging (various ones to choose from)
* blog (different types listed)
* social networking (Twitter and Facebook)

Perhaps you've read something on this blog that you think might help someone else or lead them to a helpful resource? Maybe you'd like to try this tool and see how it works for you?

I've had mixed results trying it out myself but I'm interested in hearing others' experiences.

If you're interested in sharing info from one of the posts on this blog, click on the small, white "Tell-a-Friend" widget at the bottom of the blog post you'd like to share. A window will pop up. It will then give you choices of various ways to share the link. I had mixed results; some worked when I tried it and some didn't. (See details below)... When it worked, it was cool. When it didn't, it was frustrating. Since this is a new tool, I'm wondering if it's not fully functional yet???

Has anyone else tried Tell-a-Friend? I just heard about it via a ProBlogger email from last Wednesday. Is anyone else having trouble getting some of the functions to work?

Here are various ways to use Tell-a-Friend:

Email:

Direct email (manually typing address in): It worked fine.

Gmail: I couldn't get it to login to my Gmail to message myself even though I verified on Gmail that I was using the correct userid and password. Hmm.

Yahoo: It worked fine.

Windows Live: I didn't try this.

Social:

Twitter - It sent the message but it's not a useable hyperlink. So I really don't see how it works on twitter.

Facebook - It would not login to Facebook when I tried sending a message to myself.

Blog:

I tried BlogSpot only. It would not work when I tried sending to my own blog address.

IM:

I didn't try this yet.

If you try this out, let me know what you think! Maybe you'll have better luck than I did.

Here is a video on Tell-a-Friend. If you have tried Tell-a-Friend, please let me know how it worked for you.

Here is a video explaining Tell-a-Friend:



If you try it and you like it, here's where to get the code for the Tell-a-Friend widget:

Tell-a-Friend

This article was posted by Jeanne via "Jeanne's Endo Blog" at www.endendoat.blogspot.com.