By: Co-Editor, RB:

While many bloggers toil in anonymity, hoping to gain traction and maybe some Google ad money, I found an online magazine that is more aggressive in its marketplace approach.

Smidge Magazine, which was started August 1st, 2009, and based in Ohio, is dedicated in bringing the reader, a fun and enjoyable reading experience.

They provide subscriptions that start monthly at $1.99. Their content changes on a monthly basis and they cover topics from family issues to a 365-day movie blog. The site also has forums and music integrated though the site.

Holly Sodeman runs the magazine and her goal is to presenting a user friendly, helpful monthly online magazine.

The magazine touches on the following topics; Children (the magazine touches upon “the good, the bad and the ugly” of raising children); Education (the magazine will focus on how to enhance our student’s minds and succeed in things that they do and helping students get the right education and getting through the school years and beyond. It will also focus on adults going back to college and the affordability of college in this financial crisis); Environment (How we can enhance this planet we live on); Family Issues (the inner workings and dynamic of family, step parenting, in-laws, mothers and fathers); Finances (we will talk about getting into a 401k, investing, trying to survive in the slump economy); Pets (fun loving dogs, cats, fish and other animals, finding the right pet, living with them); Home Maintenance (gardening, painting, getting a home and more); Fertility Issues (what to do when it happens, what to do if a miracle happens, and all the attendant emotions); Marriage (the ups and downs of marriage, divorce, weddings etc.); the Movie Blog (must be a member) reviewing a movie a day for the next 365 days; Recipes; Single Life (parenting, dating tips, single parent dating tips and much more, when to let the bum go or know when you have a keeper); Work (Starting up businesses, working from the lowliest job to the highest, the dynamics of the work environment with other employees and bosses. How to stay sane in an insane environment) Health (Depression, postpartum depression, mental health, stress and dealing with stress, making a better you, the dreaded exercise, eating healthier, feeding children healthier and family and tips on how to when you are busy busy.)
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