From the Editor February 2012

Are you back in the swing of things? New year’s resolutions made and kept? Blogging goals mapped out?

The Digital Parents Conference is on in Melbourne this year on 30 March 2012. Two of the conference speakers feature in this edition of the Blogazine. As a teaser Darren Rowse appears in the In The Spotlight section discussing his charity work, his greatest achievements and lessons he has learnt along the way.

Valerie Khoo, founder of the Sydney Writers’ Centre, gives some tips on improving your blog writing.

For those of you who are thinking of migrating from your blogspot or wordpress blog to your own domain I interviewed Ashur Lazar a web designer from Insynch about the basics of hosting and domain names.

And we have two articles about social media and the relationship with have with it. Kirri White discusses what social media means to her while Peta Jo makes a decision about facebook and the role it plays in her life.

We have the final instalment of the PR’s Speak series; this time PR companies Ogilvy 360 and Switched on Media give us an insight into their business relations with bloggers.

Nature’s Own launched their new range of fish oil; Omega Delight and the Cancer Council NSW launched their new initiative to take on advertisers with their new website Fat Free TV.

Fussy Eater’s Mum features in My Blog My Story; Amanda Spedding writes an emotive piece on vaccination and whooping cough; while Beck Jinette and Melissa Mitchell bare their souls and share their struggles and their fight to overcome them.

And to round off all things mummy I review “The Conflict” by Elisabeth Badinter, France’s foremost feminist thinker.

Happy Reading.

I welcome your comments below or you can email me direct at maria@digitalparentsblog.com.au

Love & stuff
Mrs M
aka Maria Tedeschi
aka mums_word