Re: Who SHOULD write a govt g'ing blog?

**K*@aol.com**

First I do think it appalling that local govt. needs a blog on gardens and  
do not have the initiative to put 'garden writer' into the browser. It does 
 indeed bring up Garden Writers. But are 'writers' interested in 
blogging??? Do  they charge more than govt. can afford? Regardless, local govt 
absolutely should  hire local writers.

Then they add to the problem by not finding one locally - but how many DC  
garden bloggers would notice and ad. on Problogger? Maybe they went to the 
place  that had bloggers and went for the only one that knew a gardenia from 
a  petunia.

I can say that over the last few yrs, I have seen posts that Safer Brand  
(the organic based pesticides) want people for articles and blogs for their  
website - they go for cheapest on the block that can write whole sentences 
and  my guess is that those writers do not have a container of Safer whatever 
in the  garage.

That said - sometimes global does work - in the past few yrs I have written 
 an ebook on strawberries for an Australian, the web content for a German 
general  garden site, and wrote the garden column for the Dubail 24/7 
weekender section  until the area got hit by the economy. 

So does this help you? I truly think local knowledge is important for  
gardeners but with the internet and govts putting meetings on the web and every  
dept listing their classes, you can indeed do the word from the virtual  
office.

Kate  Copsey
Garden Writer
_www.katecopsey.com_ (http://www.katecopsey.com/) 
_www.americaswebradio.com_ (http://www.radiosandysprings.com/) 
blog:  _www.katesgardenjournal.com  

In a message dated 6/23/2010 4:47:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
harristakoma@erols.com writes:

But  here's my question for you folks.  How would you suggest a govt find a 
 gardenblogger?  Here's the blog ino question.   
http://www.metro-dc-lawn-garden-blog.com/
I suggested they post the job  announcement it to Garden Writers, and also 
to any of DC's large gardening  listservs. 

_ (http://www.katesgardenblog.com/) 
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