Category: Tech & Travel
Life in Gaza: Our Best Day Yet
Wordless Wednesday Which picture is your favorite? Please share with us in the comments.
7 Tips for Building and Working Your LinkedIn Network
When I first created a profile on LinkedIn, I honestly had no idea of the potential of this powerful this networking tool. I put together a simple profile summary, company description, included my website and blog urls and slowly started making connections with others. Within two weeks, two local companies contacted me about my copywriting [...]
Four Reasons Why Allowing Your Children to Spend Time Overseas Alone is a Good Idea
As a mom today there is a lot of advice and criticism given to us by others. One of the topics I have heard a lot of criticism about is my decision to let my children, on different occasions travel and stay overseas without me. Mind you they were not hitch hiking Europe solo at [...]
Favorite iPhone Apps from 2011
Here are some of my most-used apps on my iPhone from 2011. I have included my top picks from various categories. Enjoy! 1. Food Two great recipe apps! Both of these apps have step-by-step directions and a variety of recipes to browse! Allrecipes Taste of Home 2. Islam QuranExplorer and ALafasy are excellent Qur’an apps. [...]
Life In Gaza: Fresh Fruit From Our Backyard
Just by looking at a few pictures, we can get a quick lesson in all of the following subject areas (and more!): Arabic Biology Geography Health Natural living MashaAllah, we feel so blessed to have fresh eggs & fruits with the convenience of just walking downstairs. Some fruits are obviously out of season right now, but [...]
“Best Kept Secret” U.S. Travel Destination Contest
Love to Travel and Love to Eat Asalaamu Alaykum everyone! Do you have a favorite travel destination that you’ve been wanting to share with everyone? Do you love eating out at halal restaurants with your friends and family? Well, this contest is the contest for you! Just by visiting the website linked below and submitting your [...]
7 Tips to Save Money While Traveling
Going on Vacation? Planning and going on vacations, weekend getaways, and trips can be expensive. However, by familiarizing yourself with the right tools and planning ahead, you can actually save an enormous amount of money. Here are some tips for saving money when planning a vacation and when on vacation: 7 Money Saving Tips Discount [...]
8 Online Tools for More Functional and Productive Freelancing
As the global economy continues to falter, many bloggers, copywriters, magazine and news writers have turned to freelancing as a way to make ends meet utilizing their skills and selling a variety of services. Technology has certainly made it easier than ever to operate as a freelancer from home. Having the right tools at your [...]
Discount Coupons for New York City Parking
No need to worry about astronomical New York City parking prices anymore! My master-frugal New Yorker sister tipped me into this awesome site for all Icon Parking lot discount coupons. What I really like about this site is that it has a Manhattan neighborhood map pictured in this post. Also, the details of the Parking [...]
Touchnote Show You Care Eid2Eid Postcard Campaign & Challenge!
I’m so excited to share with you this really cool “Show You Care From Eid al-Fitr to Eid al-Adha orEid2Eid” campaign and challenge! Touchnote is an incredibly ingenious, highly-economical, convenient, traveler’s dream app. However, I believe it’s an awesome innovation for for high-tech Internet-connected people to stay in close touch in a very personal, special [...]
iLoveRobots Introduces Blended Reality with the Mechatars: Review & Giveaway
We’re SO excited to share this awesome review of iLoveRobot’s newest robotic blended reality toy that hits the market this week! The girls have been reading vicariously about robotics and building their own, so any opportunity to review anything robotics-related, is definitely on the top of their list. Honestly, I had to make my “case” [...]
Building Social Buzz to Fire Up Your Internet Marketing Efforts!
I had no idea that 69% of the 29.6 million small business owners want help getting customers using the internet…did you? What fascinates me most, is that most of them don’t understand internet marketing. But, what’s often disappointing is that they won’t take the time to study social media, and they don’t have a clue about search engine optimization [...]
Top 5 Android Apps Every Muslim Should Have for Ramadan
As you know, we launched our iPhone app reviewer in June with Allah Made the Word iPhone app as they sponsored the 3rd Annual Summer Islamic Reading Challenge to include Canadian kids, alhumdulilah. By bringing Aya on a contributor to American Muslim Mom, I won’t have to turn down any more app review requests…AND she’ll [...]
Top 7 iPhone Apps Every Muslim Should Have for Ramadan
Ramadan is a month of blessings, patience, tranquility and spirituality. Technology has become an essential aspect in our lives and can be used to help keep track of our Ramadan goals. Here are the top 8 applications for iPhones that I found could be useful for Ramadan. Of course these apps can be used year-round [...]
Internet Marketing Tips for a Beginner by a Beginner
Three months into the world of Internet marketing has taught me more than I’d ever imagined—quite frankly, more than I’d even known existed. Being a virtual assistant and intern gave my job an interesting edge. I’ve never met my mentors, only conversed with them through e-mail and Skype. Confusion on my part was inevitable, due to my newbie [...]
