iHeart Team of Single Moms on local KOIN News 6

On 8/21/08 Clare Bean and Morgan Siler of i Heart Single Parents, the online community for single parents, were featured on the Portland area KOIN news 6. Here is the YouTube video of the news segment:

Click here to go to Koin’s website and read the story

The Oregonian’s SW Edition Article on i Heart Single Parents

The Oregonian, Oregon’s largest newspaper featured the article, Single Parents Take Online Community to Heart. It was in the SW Edition of the Oregonian, which gives a more “close up” look at news in the community. Holly Goodman, who also writes for First Wives World, submitted the article to the Oregonian. The article came out on Thursday, August 14th, 2008.

“Tired of the lack of a support network, two local moms made their own

Thursday, August 14, 2008

HOLLY GOODMAN

Special to The Oregonian

Like many other moms-to-be, Morgan Siler and Clare Bean devoured every pregnancy guide they could get.”…read the full article on the Oregonian’s website, Oregonlive.com, here.

i Heart Single Parents Social Network on National TV – The Mike & Juliet Show

On Tuesday, August 12, 2008, Clare Bean, co-creator of iHeartSingleParents.com social network for single parents was featured on Fox’s national morning show, The Morning Show With Mike and Juliet. Bean and her 2 year old Colby were flown to New York City, from Portland August 11, and stayed at the Mela Hotel right at Times Square.

The segment topic was focused on being pregnant and single and it was called: “The Single Mom Survival Guide” with the question: “Why are more young women than ever raising babies alone? M&J meet 20 somethings who are trading the dance floor for diapers and find out how they are coping with life as a single mom?” The show revealed a surprising statistic, more than 40% of new moms are single parents.

iHeartSingleParents.com was called the “Survival Guide” for single moms. To view the interview click the link below:

http://www.mandjshow.com/videos/the-single-moms-survival-guide/

if you have trouble viewing it, click this link

Part 2 and 3 of First Wives World Article Are Up!

As the follow up to the last post, the website firstwivesworld.com has added part 2 and part 3 of the 3 part series article entitled Single Mom Entrepreneurs – Making Your Life Your Work, by Holly Carpenter.

Part 2 can be found here…When Clare Bean and Morgan Siler, single mothers in Portland, Oregon, were introduced by a mutual friend last year, their quick connection shattered the isolation of mothering alone.

Part 3 can be found here…Something shifted for Clare Bean when she met her fellow single mom, Morgan Siler. There were the obvious parallels in their lives. Both were late 20-something single moms. Both had a son around a year old. Both lived in suburban Portland in neighboring Westside communities.

Another element of note, the firstwivesworld.com site has featured the story twice in their rotating images on their home page.  See the image below:

The First Wives World, a spin off of the movie The First Wives Club, has been featured in the NY Times and on the Mike and Juliet Morning show, to name a few.  See their Press page for more information.

Single Mom Entrepreneurs – Making Your Life Your Work – First Wives World Story

IHeartSingleParents.com’s founders are being featured in a three part series article on FirstWivesWorld.com.  Click here to read the article. Written by Holly Carpenter, a single mom and a member on iHeartSingleParents.com, the article tells the history of how the now 6 month old site came to exist, by two single moms in Portland, OR.

“If there’s a place in the United States where families are not expected to conform to the nuclear ideal, it’s Portland, Oregon. There are “Keep Portland Weird” stickers pasted on cars all over town.

Try opening a Wal-Mart here and you’d better be ready to battle.

Walk into the country’s largest independent bookstore, Powell’s City of Books, and along with any title you can imagine, you can grab a “People’s Republic of Portland” T-shirt.” Read more

i Heart Single Parents on UrbanMamas.com Blog

The Portland Based blog, urbanMamas featured i Heart Single Parents in a blog on July 15th, 2008.  urbanMamas is a community, online and in person…to share support, camaraderie, griefs and joys. Currently they reach 40,000 unique visitors monthly, and the community continues to grow.

Here is their blog post:

I Heart Single Parents: Local Social Networking

We’ve talked here on uM about Facebooking. And honestly, when I saw that post way back in September 2007 I wasn’t quite sure what Facebook really was.  So embarrassing!  We’ve also shared the unique challenges of single parenting and found ways to connect with others in the same shoes.

So it all came together when we recently met the founder of an excellent (and local!  isn’t everyone into local these days?) social networking site for single parents called I Heart Single Parents.  Facebook meets single parents – but better.

The founders describe it as ‘an online community for single parents to meet, chat and find support.’  It has a decidedly upbeat attitude, an “I’m here and I’m gonna love it” approach.  Have you checked it out?  If you visit, let us know what you think.

Check it out on their site here.

i Heart Single Parents in the Oregonian

Oregon Live, the Oregonian’s online newspaper featured the i Heart Single Parents social network and its creators, Morgan Siler and Clare Bean today in the Mom Beat

Journalist Helen Jung wrote the article, Single Parents Unite!
from the article:
When Morgan Siler and Clare Bean were pregnant, neither found many resources that offered much support to the single moms-to-be..So, after the two met through a mutual friend, they decided to start their own site.
Read the entire article here.