This weekend we “Spring forward” into Daylight Saving Time and in just a couple of weeks, the calendar will tell us it’s officially Spring (even if the weather forecasts do not not!) Around this time of year, many of us turn our attentions towards Spring cleaning our homes but it’s also a good time to Spring clean your blog!

Our next #O2OChat Hangout on Air will focus on tips & tricks for sprucing up your blog and making it shine! We’ve gathered a panel of women who are experienced in blogging, blog design, coding, SEO, and working with brands to show us some simple ways to improve our blogs.

• When: Tuesday, March 12th at 9/8c PM
• Where: One2One Network’s Google+ Page
• What: Spring Cleaning Your Blog
• Who: Erica Mueller of EricaSays, Elan Morgan of Schumtzie, Becca Ludlum of Our Crazy Boys, and Ang England of Untrained Housewife

Prizes: To help further your blogging efforts and get your blog into tip-top shape, we’ll be giving away four (4) copies of DIY Blog Critique by Melissa Culbertson of momcomm.com! AND Hangout panel member Becca Ludlum has offered a one-hour blog consultation to a hangout attendee! During the Hangout, you’ll need to either make a comment or ask a question on the Hangout post to be eligible to win a prize.

The Hangout will be broadcast on air and we invite you to come by and watch, make comments, and ask questions!  We’re looking forward to hanging out with you!

BlissDom is a mere six weeks away and we’re gearing up for it! Will we see you there?

We had so much fun with offering everyone at BlissDom ’12 free headshots that we decided to go for it again!

Be sure to stop by and let our photographers take a photo of beautiful you!

The photos are perfect for social media avatars, website bios, and LinkedIn profiles.

And of course we’ll have fun, fabulous prizes for you to win!

If you’ll be attending, BlissDom, we’d love it if you would add your name & website to our linky list below so that we can be sure to be on the lookout for you!

O2O is excited to announce our very first Google+ Hangout on Air and we want you to be there! As we kick-off 2013, we want to make sure that O2O members have a place to go to ask questions and learn more about navigating the blog and social media scenes.

One of our favorite places to be schooled on all things blog & social media is at blog & social media conferences, so that’s what we’ll be chatting about!

Whether you’re trying to decide to attend a conference (or two) this year, or you’ve signed up for your first ever conference, or you are a veteran conference attendee, we know this Hangout will be a great place for you.

We’ve gathered a panel of conference experts to guide you through the whats, hows, and whys of attending blog and social media conferences.

• When: Tuesday, February 12th @ 9/8c PM – just one hour!
• Where: One2One Network’s Google+ page
• What: Blog Conferences- why attend, what you need to know, and how to maximize your experience
• Who: Ashleigh Baker (from BlissDom), Jazzy Jones (from Blogalicious), Laurie White (from Mom 2.0 Summit) Bridgette Duplanits (from Reviewer’s Retreat), Andrea Bates (from SITS/Bloggy Bootcamp), and just added- Shannon aka Mr. Lady (from BlogHer)!

The Hangout will be broadcast On Air and we invite you to make comments and ask questions on our Google+ page for our panel to address. No need to RSVP, just come over to Google+ on Tuesday night and we’ll be there!

To catch up with Tammy, you may have to go in Three Different Directions! Tammy is a homeschooling mom to a sixteen year old daughter and a busy blogger, maintaining two websites- her main site as well as Play That Now!, a site devoted to reviewing DVDs, video games, music, and electronics for the whole family. Tammy and her family love to travel and often take their schooling and work on the road with them. At home, you can find Tammy in the kitchen playing with a recipe or in the family room playing World of Warcraft. Tammy has been an One2One Network member since 2009 and has participated in many different kinds of campaigns from laundry detergent to pork spareribs. Tammy will be at BlissDom ’13 in Dallas, she won a free a ticket from us in our O2O-BlissDom sponsorship contest!

I’m known for…getting the best deal.

I’m working on…growing my blog.

10 years from now I…will be in even better shape than I am now.

I’m currently addicted to…Downy Unstoppables, it makes me want to do laundry!

I find joy…in seeing my daughter succeed

My secret ambition…to go to London (is that an ambition or just a bucket list item?!)

I can’t do without…coffee.

I’m most creative…after looking through magazines for inspiration.

I admire…my sister. She became a widow at 30, stayed strong, lived life, and then re-married and now has two beautiful children.

When I grow up…I just want to grow up – as in height! Ha ha.

Chocolate- Dark, Milk, White, or No thanks? White, definitely white.

Best advice anyone ever gave you (about anything). I’m not sure it was advice, but the encouragement of friends to follow our hearts and homeschool our daughter when she started 7th grade. It’s one of the best things we could have done for her and our family unit. If we had not had friends to support us when we first started out, I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t have done it.

Favorite way to spend a Friday night? Watching movies together as a family.

You need to indulge in some retail therapy, where do you head? Target.

Most played song in your iTunes library? Discombobulate from the Sherlock Holmes Soundtrack

Where to find Tammy on the Internet:
Blog – Three Different Directions
Twitter – @threedifferent
Facebook

Welcome to our first featured member interview of 2013! We’ve been doing featured member interviews for a couple of years now and they have become a staple of the O2O Blog. We love learning more about our members and sharing their stories with you. To see previous featured member interviews, just click on the ‘featured member’ tag at the end of this post or choose it from the ‘Categories’ option above. So without further ado, let us introduce you to you…Crissy!

As the blogger behind the popular Dear Crissy blog, Crissy Page shares all her passions: writing, photography, food, beauty, and most of all, motherhood. She is a happily married mother of two living in Ohio. In addition to keeping her own site up-to-date, she contributes to parenting sites such as Babble and BabyCenter. Crissy also recently founded ParentPretty.com, a parenting resource focused on food, crafts, and family-friendly products. We’ve enjoyed working with Crissy on sponsored blog campaigns and Twitter parties.

I’m known for…my photography

I’m working on…setting up editorial calendars for my blogs in 2013

10 years from now…I hope to be debt free

I’m currently addicted to…Breaking Bad on Netflix!

I find joy…in the moments I spend when my kids. You know, when neither of them are screaming.

My secret ambition…is to write a novel.

I can’t do without…Diet Coke.

I’m most creative…after midnight.

I admire…my parents, and treasure their relationship with my children.

When I grow up…I want to travel more.

Chocolate- Dark, Milk, White, or No thanks? Milk chocolate, now please?

Best advice anyone ever gave you (about anything). To visualize my goals.

Favorite way to spend a Friday night? Sitting on the sofa with my husband (after the kids are in bed), watching a good show or movie!

You need to indulge in some retail therapy, where do you head? Sephora, love splurging on new makeup every once in a while.

Most played song in your iTunes library? Sadly, I don’t get to listen to much music (for my own pleasure) at this phase in my Mom-career. I need to change that!

Where to find Crissy on the Internet:
Blog – Dear Crissy & ParentPretty
Twitter – @Crissy
Facebook
Pinterest