A Year of Northeast Bloggers! and another giveaway!

To help celebrate our first year, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at our year of firsts!

Northeast Bloggers officially opened our virtual "doors" on February 25th, 2013 with our first post: Welcome!

We quickly began accepting members and our first member was Vicki, who writes the blog My Vicklicious Life!  I asked Vicki to give us her thoughts for our anniversary and she said:

"How has it been a year already?! I was so excited when Rachel first told me about her plans to start "NorthEast Bloggers" and was honored to be its first member! I've loved how we've grown and it's been so much fun getting to know everyone!"

Thanks Vicki!   Vicki was also our first ever Blog of the Week!

In April 2013 we started our Photography Challenge and the first theme was Family!

In June we started our Pinterest page and opened up community pages for our members to pin their post to!

In July we reached 200 members and had our very first giveaway!

Then in August we had our first meet up at the Field House in Philadelphia!  We also started offering upgraded memberships, so members could be featured on our side bar (along with other perks throughout the year)

In September we had our first theme week which was also our first Fashion Week!

In October we hosted our first Twitter Chat!

November brought us our first Foodie Week (yum!)

Finally, in January we hosted our first Pin Committee link up!

It's been such a great year of firsts, with more to come!

To help us continue our first year celebration, we have another giveaway for you guys today!  One of our members, Melanie, is also an amazing blog designer!  Her design shop is called Adorability Designs and she has some seriously great stuff!  She is offering an awesome prize to one lucky winner- a free premade blog design OR 50% off a custom design!  Woohoo!  Enter below to win, and good luck!

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Welcome to Our One Year Anniversary Week!

Welcome everyone to our big one year anniversary celebration week!  This week we are going all out with tons of give aways, special post and an "anything goes" social media link up party!  I am also sharing my thoughts in a blogging first- my first ever vlog!  I hope you'll watch below and then scroll down after the video for a super awesome giveaway from our State Reps!

Northeast Bloggers was started in February of 2013 after a short brainstorming session driving home from brunch with my husband!  I was explaining to him what blogging networks are and how there are so many networks for Southern Bloggers, Texas bloggers, Florida bloggers, etc, but none that I knew of for North-easterners!  And he simply said "why don't you start one yourself?"  And so the Northeast Bloggers Network was born!  After we got home I immediately went to work on the blog layout, our first header, buttons and brainstorming ideas of how it might all work.

I am happy to say that after a year we are 500+ members strong, with an very active Facebook community,  and tons of great networking opportunities for everyone each week!  If you don't read our monthly newsletter (check your "promotions" tab!) I highly recommend you do, because that's where we promote all the fun things going on that month!

A big thank you to everyone for being an awesome member of our network!  I hope you are finding it useful and having fun meeting other bloggers in your region!

And now on to the vlog....

Thanks for watching!  

Our first giveaway this week is a super awesome CASH give away sponsored by our amazing state reps!  Please give them a big thank you for all their behind the scenes hard work!  By entering the giveaway you are thanking our State Reps by following them on their various blogs and social media outlets!  Plus, of course, you could win money or a giftcard, winners choice!  So it's a win-win (win) situation!

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