IndustryMamas has moved to our new online home

We've migrated to http://industrymamas.ning.com/

Please e-mail lionlit@aol.com with your name, profession, and names and ages of your kids if you would like to be invited to join the group.

Thanks,
Aliyah Silverstein & Lisa Cole

WGA Panel for Working Mothers

WOMEN TV WRITERS AND MOTHERHOOD
Thursday, 5/7, 7:00 p.m.
WGAW Headquarters, 2nd Floor Multi Purpose Room
RSVP by Tuesday 5/5 to sboyd@wga.org or (323) 782-4713

Please join us for a panel discussion on juggling a career in television with the unique demands of motherhood. How can we create a more family-friendly workplace or cope with one that’s not?

Moderated by Anne Kenney (Greek, The Division, Family Law), panelists include Yvette Lee Bowser (Half & Half, For Your Love, Living Single), Sibyl Gardner (Saving Grace, Any Day Now, Diagnosis Murder), Alexa Junge (United States of Tara, Sex and the City, Friends) Marti Noxon (Private Practice, Grey’s Anatomy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and Dawn Prestwich & Nicole Yorkin (The Riches, Carnivale, Judging Amy, Chicago Hope).

Please forward to your friends and colleagues!

Seating is limited. WGA and Caucus members in good standing only.

LA Times Article About Industry Moms

Megan Underwood sent this in:

http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-ig-moms7-2008dec07,0,1362581.story

Mommy hood as Networking - only in LA...

Getting Bigger & Stronger

Hey Industry Mamas,

Our group is already 100 strong!

We held our inaugural planning meeting on Nov 16th and started to define what specific needs this group will address.

Our apologies if you wanted attend. We tried to get the word out as best we could via e-mail and postings on this blog.

Eleven great women attended the meeting at Lisa Cole's house in Glassel Park.
We were all very excited to be a part of the launch of this great venture and agreed that we like the name Industry Mamas for our new group.
Lisa has purchased the domain name and we're on our way to figuring out how best to serve our new community both online and up close & personal.
We also agreed that we wanted to keep the group exclusive to "The Industry" and, like Booby Brigade, membership should be by invitation only.

Some of the things we want to see the group provide:
- Nurturing community within the industry.
- Place to post job needs and leads (on the blog or website, NOT as a mass e-mail blitz or personal request)
-Great online resource that's easily searchable by topic/category (essentially a place to organize all the great advice & online resources that get shared on places like Booby Brigade every day).
- "Members" section that introduces people and includes photos and an "About Me" (maybe even what you want to bring to or get out of the group). This can have a link to your professional website, personal blog etc…
- Babysitting co-op / Pool childcare resources
- Social – Networking for moms and socializing for babies. Ie, Moms Nights Out
- Events - We talked about having a charitable or event based focus for a mixer (IE Blood drive at Children's Hospital, $2 Clothing Swap for Charity, to support DEC – Drug Endangered Children. Maybe 4 times a year??
- Resource for weekend Mommy & Me events.

We are also knocking around the idea for a standing monthly Stuff Swap. It would be fantastic to be able to bring everything we no longer need and do a big Yard Sale / Swap with the remainders going to a charity. If it were once a month, nobody would feel pressured to go every time and we wouldn't have crap (I mean awesome baby stuff) sitting around our homes.

We still have things to iron out and much more planning to do including the day-to-day of operation responsibilities and expenses. As it may be impossible to answer everyone's emails individually at this point, we ask that you visit the blog site for updates, etc.

If you have other mommy friends in the industry who would be interested in joining this community – please have them send an e-mail to Lisa Cole: lisa@jerkswithunderwoods.com with the subject line : NEW MEMBER and the following details: Name, job description, age of children.

We hope to go live with a website in late January and will send another e-mail to all members with further updates. We appreciate your patience as we continue to formulate the game plan. We're working moms, but committed to having this thing fly.

We're so glad to have connected with all 100 of you!

Happy Thanksgiving weekend to you and yours.

Warmly,

Aliyah Silverstein & Lisa Cole

What About Us Working Moms?

Swim lessons, Baby Yoga, Yoga with Babies, Music Together, Babylattes...why should SAHMs have all the bonding fun? I'm kicking off a list of things I know of that happen on weekends.

Please add things you know of in the comments and I'll compile a list of resources. Hope to see you and your kids on the weekends!

Things to Do:
Outside The Box - http://www.otbee.com/
Music Together - http://www.musictogether.com - 3 Saturday classes at Dragonfly Dolou, 3 Saturday classes at Play on 3rd near La Brea
YMCA Swim Lessons - to find your local Y - http://www.ymca.net/maps/?address=90016&latlng=(34.0255188%2C+-118.3520389)#
Gymboree - http://www.gymboreeclasses.com

(Limited) weekend parent/infant classes:
http://growcreativeseeds.com/
http://www.play-losangeles.com/
http://www.thetreehousesocialclub.com

Places to Go:
Noah's Ark at Skirball Center Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific
Barnes & Nobel at the Westside Pavilion - have a storytime

Welcome To Your Blog - Let Us Introduce You

Please send me links to your personal websites, favorite web resources, links to activities that your kids enjoy or that other moms might be interested in. I'm even happy to post a link to your personal blog if you'd like.

If there is anything you want to see here that you aren't - let us know that too.

My e-mail is lionlit@aol.com or you can post a comment below.

Aliyah

INDUSTRY MAMAS PLANNING MEETING - DATE SET!!

Hello everyone

I've received about 12 inquiries about the meeting... Looks like the 16th will work for the majority of us as the 23rd is the holiday weekend and many are traveling.  Sorry if you're one of those women who said the 23rd was best.  We'll miss you!

So, how about 3pm-5pm at my house, Sunday 16th... I live in Glassel Park.  I'll email everyone who reached out individually now... and if you can make it I'll then send you my home address.

Cheers!

lisa