OpMom.com - Mom Resources

OpMom is a social networking community and organizational resource for parents and families. OpMom allows its Members to create unique personal profiles online as well as to share valuable information, ideas and more with each other. For example find inspiration for dinners, vacation plans, or your next party, you will be able to store your favourites for easy access and rate them. It also provides specific organizational resources geared toward streamlining a parents daily operation and improving their overall quality of life. It is a service provided in good faith for regular use by a specific audience.

“OpMom is short for Operation Mom, and is a social community for moms. In addition to offering web-based organization, it was created to offer moms a safer and more useful alternative to the catch-all social networking sites and traditional media outlets. There are no gimmicky reward systems, annoying pop-up ads or confusing navigation. Every mom is an expert in her own right, and OpMom incorporates the collective wisdom of thousands of mothers of all ages, sharing advice and ideas around the world's largest coffee table”

Social networking communities are always expanding and accepting new members, this one will not be different. Most mothers around the world need to face daily responsibilities and duties which may be simplified by suggestions and recommendations that this site publish. Also, the social web is moving toward persona-driven networks, where users will

There are tons of parenting sites, so what makes this one different? The answer seems to be twofold - first, OpMom goes beyond the talk-centric focus of many competitors and sets out to be more useful in the daily lives of its users. It tries to help mom manage the various aspects of her complex daily "operation" (hence the name) and provides free organizational tools she can use for that purpose, such as family health record organizers, personal and group calendars, plus recipe, travel and party idea organizers. There is also a neat local referrals system where moms can refer and rate local service providers, which would probably come in handy on a regular basis. Second, the site welcomes moms of all ages, or as CEO Carrie Pacini says, with kids "from car seats to college." This is as opposed to focusing largely on moms of young children, which is what many sites in this space seem to do.