Asheville Fling, the annual garden bloggers meet-up, is coming up in a few weeks, and I've been thinking about MOO cards. I discovered MOO's MiniCards in time to take some to the first garden bloggers' fling in Austin, and I've been bringing them to every fling I've attended. To me, they are a great way [...]
Blogging Art and Practice
Cold Climate Gardening Nominated for Best Rural/Farming Blog
May 3, 2010 – Posted in: About this site, Blogging Art and PracticeA while back I mentioned that nominations were being accepted for the Mouse & Trowel awards. Frankly, I didn't expect to get nominated, as I couldn't spare the time to "promote" myself and the garden blogging arena has gotten quite a bit more crowded. Imagine my surprise to discover I had been nominated for the [...]
Nominations for Mouse & Trowel Awards Now Being Accepted
April 14, 2010 – Posted in: Blogging Art and PracticeIn case you've been living under a rock, or don't hang out on Twitter or Facebook, nominations are now being accepted for the Mouse & Trowel Awards. These awards honor garden bloggers in various categories. Anyone can nominate a garden blogger for this honor. April 30, 2010 is the deadline to submit nominations.
My blogging code of ethics
February 10, 2009 – Posted in: About this site, Blogging Art and PracticeI've been following with interest the debate that Pam at Digging started and which Mr. BrownThumb responded to. When I first started blogging back in 2002, you were lucky to find business people who knew what blogging was, and the idea that they would find enough value in your blogging about their product to give [...]
Still More Garden Tweeters
December 17, 2008 – Posted in: Blogging Art and PracticeEven as I was writing my first post about garden twitterers (aka tweeters), I was discovering new ones and agonizing about the ones I didn't include. So here are some more. Plus, at the end, more hints about finding more on your own. flowergardengal FineGardening2 yolandaelizabet punkgardener redwhiteandgrew AmericanGarden FarmerPhoebe finegardening PAllenSmith CottageMagpie BotanicalOnline gina_g [...]
Top Garden Twitterers
December 10, 2008 – Posted in: Blogging Art and PracticeOn his TwitTip blog Darren Rowse challenged people to come up with ten must-follow tweeters for their own particular niche. Naturally, I immediately thought of the garden tweeters. I found it pretty challenging to decide on ten, because most people who tweet (that is, use Twitter) don't limit themselves to one topic. So should I [...]
Cold Climate Gardening garners a Mouse and Trowel nomination
April 26, 2008 – Posted in: About this site, Blogging Art and PracticeThank you for nominating this blog for Best Garden Blog Design. I've put a lot of thought and hours into the design, and I'm pleased that you appreciate my efforts. According to the Mouse & Trowel website, "the Mouse & Trowel Awards were created by freelance writer and garden blogger Colleen Vanderlinden to honor and [...]
Promote your blog with Moo mini cards
February 26, 2008 – Posted in: Blogging Art and PracticeI just wrote a post for the Garden Bloggers Spring Fling suggesting that all attendees have some kind of card to trade at the meet-up. Moo mini cards are my hands-down favorite, but the price is kind of high.These cards are a great way to promote your blog Even if you're not going to the [...]
The Garden Blog Presentation at the GWA Symposium
December 24, 2007 – Posted in: Blogging Art and PracticeFor those of you just joining us, this past fall I spent a week traveling to visit friends in Austin and to attend the Garden Writers Association symposium in Oklahoma City, where I agreed to be part of a team presenting on garden blogs. My original intention was to chronicle my entire trip from airport [...]
Why don’t more older gardeners blog?
November 20, 2007 – Posted in: About this site, Blogging Art and PracticeI was one of several garden bloggers inteviewed by Doug Green for an article on garden blogging for The American Gardener, which is published by the American Horticultural Society. I thought the article was a good overview for beginners on the topic, not going too deeply into the technology behind blogging but maintaining accuracy. Really, [...]
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