CmomGo

Thanks to these awesome moms!

2011-10-16T18:18:00.000-07:00

We were recently asked to attend a board meeting for the mom and tots group for St. Joseph church in Libertyville. It was great to hear from these moms of both how much they like CmomGo and even more importantly how we could improve it. Thanks for the invitation and as well as the discussion!

MyDailyMoment - Pretty Impressive Content Site for Moms

2011-10-07T19:20:00.000-07:00

Free Horoscopes at MyDailyMoment - Get your free horoscope every day at MyDailyMoment.com. You will also find great recipes, diet tips, celebrity gossip and more!

I hope the moms are rocking the iPhone!

2011-10-04T20:04:00.001-07:00

As this article suggest!
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/10/04/video-is-iphone-losing-its-cool-factor/?mod=WSJBlog

Easy to Use

2011-10-02T19:15:00.000-07:00

A few months back we received a note from FindMySoft.com in that they had reviewed our app. The Easy to Use was the first comment that they said in their bulletted listed of what they liked! That's enough because that was always our goal for CmomGo! http://cmomgo.ios.findmysoft.com/

Circles - we have had them from the beginning!

2011-07-19T20:03:00.000-07:00

Last night I spent a considerable amount of time looking at our app, the user experience, the screens, the flow of information, etc. There are obviously areas to improve and I'd love to be able to snap my fingers to gain access to hundreds of thousands of users, but I was very happy in the progress we made. Our web and iPhone app are both simple and intuitive which is what I wanted for the beginning. So tons of more success to be had but it's a good start!

Video - CmomGo Creating Activities For Your Group

2011-06-24T04:45:00.000-07:00

It seems to be that one of the most widely used features of CmomGo's iPhone app is the creation of activities. It's a nice user experience (Bias) and we recently added a feature based on a request from the moms that folks cannot reply to an activity with a message until they set their RSVP status. Here is a 55 second video in which I show you how easy this feature is to use. If you have a group that has a lot of events or activities and the count of who's coming and who isn't is a must... CmomGo could be for you!

Click to view quick video

Two Cool New Reviews

2011-04-26T19:53:00.000-07:00

It nice to be included on a top 10 of Organizational Apps for Mums!

The second post was a review in which the editor called CmomGo a Blessing from the Heavens

The Room Moms are Creating Communities

2011-04-11T19:39:00.000-07:00

Over 40% of our active circles are for the class room. This could be that either the room mom has organized the circle or the teacher has. What is cool about this is that moms are truly creating a private social community amongst people that they know. What this does show is that privacy in the school is still very important. Our data also shows that they are sharing a lot of photos privately. Our data shows this and a while back when our up-loader wasn't working correctly I heard from many of the moms! I'd still like to see more Photos uploaded from the teacher with the iPhone, but we will get there!

Thanks,
Jeff (Co-Founder)
(312) 380-9501

Awesome Quotes From Some Recent Write Ups!

2011-03-28T18:54:00.000-07:00

"Hot Trend Alert - Playdate apps for smartphones"
CoolMomTech

"10 Marvelous iPhone apps for Woman" Inspiring Pretty

"It’s like a personal calendar, contact list and forum in one!" BabydickeyGiveaways

"CmomGo has created the ultimate solution to this mom's nightmare" Jabbering Jessi - reviews, giveaways and more

"Organize your next event or manage your local groups with ease!" My Four Monkeys - It's a jungle out there

"The simple to use dashboard means navigation is quick and easy!" The Freebie Junkie

Some Interesting Stats on CmomGo.com

2011-03-23T19:19:00.001-07:00

Once in a while we like to look at data beind our app. Here a few interesting numbers that I thought I would share on a few of our users circles!

-80 activities scheduled for a 30 person PTO in 7 months!
-300 pieces of content for a 10 member playgroup in 5 months!
-350 pieces of content for a 20 user girl scout troop!
-50 activities for a 20 person playgroup

Pretty cool just to see how folks use it!

Write ups on CoolMomTech and Baby Dickey Giveaways

2011-03-14T19:47:00.000-07:00

We wanted to thank Emily Dickey from Baby Dickey Giveaways for trying out our app for two of her circles - one being for her friends that are going to Blogher which we thought was pretty cool. http://bitly.com/CmomGo-BabyDickey.

We also wanted to thank CoolmomTech and Jeana Lee Tahnk for including us on this cool list of apps for playdates! http://bitly.com/CmomGo-CoolMomTech

Guest Post on Tech Talk For Moms

2011-03-07T15:12:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Beckie Mostello from Tech Talk for Moms @techtalkformoms for letting us write a guest blog post. You can find the exact post here link and we have included the post on our blog as well.

Every mom can use CmomGo.com for one group in their life – we call them “circles“! Whether that is the group from church, the kid’s soccer team, the kindergarten class, or the neighborhood playgroup. Think about the kindergarten teacher taking pictures of the kids from their iPhone and then automatically uploading a new gallery for all of the moms to see. The moms will be notified in real time that a new gallery has been posted and they all can comment, either from their iPhones or from the web app. What’s cool is that this creates community among the moms from the class with the teacher! Everything is secure so only the moms invited to the circle can see and access the circle! It’s also great for the room moms to plan the parties throughout the year… with a private Evite like functionality for the moms in the circle! We also hide email addresses which is a common request from the schools. So if the teacher invites the moms, only the teacher can see the mom’s email addresses – not the other moms!

The private Evite like functionality is also great for the soccer teams! So how about that team mom that is always messing with the reply all emails for who’s coming to the game, who’s bringing the snacks this week, etc. The team mom and other parents can coordinate all of this within their CmomGo circle. CmomGo is super simple… you create your private circle in 30 seconds and invite the moms. From there you can Plan, Coordinate & Share Privately with that circle. The web app is free and the iPhone app is $1.99. You can create the circle directly from your iPhone, but you need the mom’s email addresses in your iPhone contacts – probably easier to create the circle from the web although we will make that easier on the iPhone in the future! Follow CmomGo on Twitter- @CmomGoDotCom

The iPhone Mom Dot Com Review

2010-11-19T11:40:00.000-08:00

We recently had our site and iPhone app reviewed by TheiPhoneMom.com. She had some great things to say. After the review she sent me a note saying that she was schocked of how much went into it - that sure is true. What a learning experience! Here is a link to the review Click here

Holiday Gift Guide For The Modern Mom!

2010-11-14T19:36:00.000-08:00

It pretty cool to be included on a list without our team even finding out about it - thank god for Google alerts! In addition to the mention of our iPhone app I thought the fridge magnet for the iPad was super cool.link to gift guide

Email From A User That Makes Your Day!

2010-11-11T15:23:00.000-08:00

Last night we received this email from a new user and I thought I would share. Made my day!

"Loving the site-got to test drive it through a neighbor when we planned a camping trip. I completely appreciate the ability to share information privately (especially photos). My girlfriends are digging it, too!" Angie

Wow - Private Photo Galleries are growing

2010-11-02T19:11:00.000-07:00

Now we just need a few hundred thousand more moms! Like most companies we have lots of data that we slice and dice and review month to month, but one number caught our eye last month... the number of galleries created grew 16% month over month which we are rather excited about! This can be everything from photos being shared with the football team moms or the teacher posting pictures from the recent halloween party! With our iPhone app it is really easy to both post a gallery to a circle as well as add photos to a gallery that already exist!

Why CmomGo For Room Moms?

2010-10-25T19:22:00.000-07:00

It's common practice that schools and teachers can't share email addresses of one parent to another parent, etc. We follow that practice in that if a teacher or the room mom were to create a circle and invite the parents, they cannot see the email addresses of the other circle members. Only the teacher or room mom that created the circle can see those email addresses. When we first launched CmomGo that was a common request from several of the schools.

It's pretty cool to have the teachers post pictures throughout the week to the circle so that the parents can see what the little ones are up to - why wait until the end of the school year to see those pictures! With our iPhone app this is even easier now. I also thought it was great when I heard the moms from a last year preschool class were creating a gallery together in which they each posted a picture of the little ones going to kindergarten... so even though the kids all went to different schools the moms and the kids are staying connected and catching up for play dates and breakfast once in a while.

CmomGo iPhone App Is Now Available

2010-10-19T04:37:00.000-07:00

Wow - what a long run. Well our app is finally available. See the press release below. The most interesting part of this process was simply how much we learned. I think everyone involved underestimated how much effort it would be to actually deliver on this. As with everything in this journey... twice as long and three times as much money!

Link to press release

iPhone Giveaway - Our iPhone App is Coming Soon!

2010-04-08T20:07:00.000-07:00

Our iPhone app is coming very soon so we decided to donate a prize as part of the Ultimate Blog Party hosted by 5minutesformom.com. Click on the image to see how you can participate!

iPhone Giveaway - Our App Is Coming Soon!

2010-04-08T20:02:00.000-07:00

As part of the 5minutesformom.com ultimate blog party we donating an iPhone as a giveaway. We thought that was a pretty nice gift!

It's been too long!

2010-03-19T10:54:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since we provided an update mostly due to the fact that we are busy continuing to improve things! Many of our users have provided feedback over the last few months and that has been great. Please continue to do that and feel free to send me a note anytime. We will have some exciting announcements very soon!

Thanks,
Jeff (jeff@cmomgo.com)

New feature - calendar dashboard

2009-11-01T18:29:00.000-08:00

Making the creation of a schedule easier within Activities!

2009-10-12T13:52:00.000-07:00

Calendar View - It was common request

2009-09-17T20:23:00.000-07:00

The moms had asked for this and we have delivered!