Taga Stroller/Bike at SV Moms/Bit Moms event

Okay, so this looks like a fun bike with a huge shopping cart in front, right?


Well, look again... Now it's a stroller!

See, it's a bike (with a baby seat in the front) that can convert quickly and easily into a stroller!

The shopping cart thing is just an accessory that you can buy to put on it once the baby is grown -- the child seat is removable, you can add a second seat in the middle for another child, you can put on an adapter so that your infant car seat can be used... And when you get where you need to go, you flip the whole thing around, pull a few levers and voila! Insta-stroller!

I remember that I was flipped out over the amazing Bugaboo stroller when I had my last baby more than 5 years ago, but this thing... well, I'm in love. And I will not be needing the stroller, thank you very much.

www.tagabikes.com

Ritzy Times with SV Mom Bloggers

My favorite blogging mamas (and carpool buddies): Yvonne Cordes, Kim Tracy Prince, Elise Derby Crane, Sarah Auerswald and yours truly.

Oh, how I love a good party with champagne, sweets, fun women and fabulous swag. And when it's thrown by Silicon Valley Moms, well, it's also informative and entertaining. This latest event, at the ultra-swanky Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel, was an opportunity for bloggers and brands to converge and talk about how the blogosphere has changed the face of PR and marketing forever.

As one brand rep (for Taga Bike/Strollers, I'll talk about those later - they are brilliant) mentioned, the high-powered PR agency they hired in London was able to get them top placement in the best newspapers and publications and that translated into a good image... but the bloggers they worked with in Germany had formed an interactive biking group that translated into SALES.

So this day was about that connection, the symbiotic way that bloggers and brands must exist... Very exciting.