A Place For Moms to Meet Other Moms

http://www.cafemom.com

I discovered CafeMom awhile back on the web.  It's a great site to meet other Moms.  You can join groups in your area, chat with others, share stories, and post photos.  It's a lot of fun!  Below is the summary of what CafeMom is all about.

 

What is CafeMom?

CafeMom is an online community where thousands of moms come together every day to connect with each other. The site is free to join and all moms are welcome. If you haven't joined yet, it just takes a few minutes to create your profilethen you can enjoy all the features of CafeMom. Learn how to make CafeMom your homepage!

 

About CafeMom:

Launched in late 2006, CafeMom is by far the largest social-networking/community site for moms AND the leading women's/parenting site on the internet - passing mainstream sites like ivillage, babycenter, and Marthastewart on the engagement metrics that matter most. With more than 145MM pageviews / month and 7MM visits / month, CafeMom was ranked the #8 fastest-growing site in 2007 by compete.com and has recently won awards from Mashable and AlwaysOn as one of the leading social networking sites. CafeMom has just launched CafeMom Plus, a boutique ad network of sites focused on moms. The launch of the Network increases CafeMom's reach from 4MM unique visitors per month to more than 8MM visitors per month.

As the world's original social networkers, moms are connecting on shared interests, passions, challenges, and local geography. Moms have created more than 60,000 groups. Popular groups include pregnancy, raising boys, recipe swap, photo moms, and marriage and relationships. CafeMom features include fully customizable profile pages, friends' networks, journaling, a widget platform and strong privacy / anonymity controls. CafeMom is focused on creating a great site for moms that is somewhere they can come to get advice, feel supported, make friends or just relax.

CafeMom has also developed a series of cutting edge sponsorship programs that allow leading brands to join the consumer conversation, add value to members' lives, and get members talking about sponsor brands in an authentic and viral way. CafeMom advertisers include Walmart, General Mills, Hasbro, Target, P&G, Disney, Johnson & Johnson, JCPenney, Unilever, and dozens of others.

Based on the rapid growth and strong advertiser interest, CafeMom (CMI Marketing) closed a round of funding for $12MM in February, 2008 from existing investors Highland Capital Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. CafeMom is using these funds to accelerate traffic growth and further grow the team. CMI Marketing was founded in 1999 by Andrew Shue and Michael Sanchez.