Re: Is Your Blog Commercial?

**W*@aol.com**

In a message dated 3/4/2009 11:22:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
ycunnington@ispnet.ca writes:

>>Good lord, when you're running a real business like a garden  center, you
don't have time to D-I-Y everything. So why not hire a blog  writer, esp. for
the how-to-garden type articles? There's such  anti-business tone here that
rubs me the wrong way at  times.<<

I'm not sure how my message was read as "anti-business." We are all crazy  
busy these days, but hopefully not too busy to be honest. 
   I was specifically talking about a person or  personality having their 
blog written for them under their image and  voice and not acknowledging that 
fact. I have no problem if Garden Center  ABC has a blog, whether it is 
staff-written or hired out. There are many of  those and there is no pretense that they 
are not staff or team written. No one  is misled or confused.
    I would find it dishonest though if a blog was  written as coming direct 
from the desk of Joe Schmo, Garden  Center ABC's owner, and found out later it 
was not in fact him, but a staffer or  hired pen. Why risk the embarrassment 
and loss of face, when a  customer eventually ask's Joe to his face about 
something "he wrote" and  Joe has no idea how to respond because he does not keep 
up with his own  ghost-written blog and the posted responses? (See Katie 
Couric et  al.) 

Sincerely,
Kathy Jentz
Editor/Publisher
Washington  Gardener Magazine
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Silver Spring MD  20910
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