“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” – Calvin Trillin

Most of us have witnessed the awesome power of mothers. Aside from bringing new life into the world, they make us sit up straight, eat our vegetables and do our homework. Imagine that incredible force multiplied a thousand-fold into an enormous social network. Yes, this is the Greenlake Moms.

Before the Greenlake Moms was 1500 moms strong, it was one mom: Melissa Benaroya (doesn’t her family look glad that she’s …

In addition to our wild party life as a hyperlocal blogger celebrity, we hold down a day job running an Internet start-up that provides social networking services for conferences and events. Between all that, our background in social psychology and our general love of all things on-line, we’ve learned a few things about “social media”, the catch-all term that has come to describe the relationships and content being built around Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs and the like.

We’ll be sharing a few of those things at tomorrow’s Wallingford Chamber of Commerce meeting, giving a short talk on how small businesses …