{"id":46994,"date":"2013-10-30T11:30:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T10:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=46994"},"modified":"2013-10-30T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T11:30:17","slug":"speedy-spotlight-family-friendly-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/speedy-spotlight-family-friendly-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedy Spotlight: Family Friendly Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyfriendlyworking.co.uk\/\" title=\"Family Friendly Working\" target=\"_blank\">Family Friendly Working<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">will be featured in this week\u2019s Media Updates. Author<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antoniachitty\" title=\"Antonia Chitty \" target=\"_blank\">Antonia Chitty<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> spoke to Cision about work and family life, PRs being lovely and doing an MA.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Family-Friendly-Working.jpg\" alt=\"Family Friendly Working, Antonia Chitty\" width=\"224\" height=\"336\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-46995\" \/>Why should people read your blog?<\/span> <\/b><br \/> For a mix of news, tips and advice and profiles of parents in business.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><b>What makes your blog different?<\/b> <\/span><br \/> It\u2019s different from many \u2018parenting\u2019 blogs as it has a strong focus of ways to combine work and family life.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">What&#8217;s your favourite blog and why?<\/span><br \/><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/mymumdom.com\/\" title=\"Mymumdom\" target=\"_blank\">MyMumdom<\/a>, where Jacq writes about life with four kids, and Carol\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/parentpanel.co.uk\/\" title=\"Parent Panel\" target=\"_blank\">Parent Panel<\/a> which is full of reviews.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><b>What advice would you give to someone who wants to start a blog?<\/b> <\/span><br \/> Get a niche within your niche. Although it might seem easy to start a blog that could cover anything, it can make it hard to know what to write about. The more focused you are, the more unique your blog is, and the more it will become essential reading for your audience.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">How does a good PR work with you?<\/span><br \/><\/b>To start, read the blog, then email me if you have something relevant to working parents and parents running businesses. We occasionally run more general health\/parenting stories, usually at the weekends, and I\u2019ve a particular interest in special needs and disability so may cover stories relevant to that too, but anything combining work\/business\/family\/parenting is best.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">What do PRs do that&#8217;s bad?<\/span><br \/><\/b>I\u2019m pretty lucky that the PRs I work with are lovely and helpful \u2013 but I worked in PR myself for more than ten years so perhaps it\u2019s not surprising!<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Do you have any surprising hobbies or interests?<\/span><br \/><\/b>Not at the moment \u2013 instead of hobbies I\u2019m doing a MA in Creative and Critical Writing, so you might find me reading about Freud and Derrida instead.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Editorial information on Antonia Chitty, Family Friendly Working and thousands of other media contacts and outlets, can be found in the<\/span>\u00a0<a title=\"CisionPoint\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/products-and-services\/cisionpoint\/\" target=\"_blank\">CisionPoint<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Cision's Media Database\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/products-and-services\/media-database\/\" target=\"_blank\">Media Database<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family Friendly Working will be featured in this week\u2019s Media Updates. 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