Interview with “Green Talk”
“Green Talk”
Orginally the blog was supposed to be about my experiences with green builidng products since I built a couple of years ago using alot of environmentally friendly materials. The blog has its own agenda and has expanded to all sorts of green living content. I wanted to blog not only to help others, but others to help me. It is very tiresome to constantly look for green answers and felt blogging would connect me to those needing baby step help to those who already made great strides. I would say I started the blog to connect to others and to create a community.
I have been blogging for one year. It has been a big learning curve! I am not technie, in publishing, or in marketing. So, I had to learn all about all those avenues. I am exhausted!
I blog about basically what I am trying to green in my own life in addition to products or concepts that I think would interest my readers. Topics are centered around greening your home and garden and can vary about green building, recycling, gardening, to just daily green living concept. I always encourage my readers to jump right in and discuss with me.
I like Fake plastic fish, treehugger, Ideal Bite and problogger. I really don’t read alot of people’s blogs all the time. I skip around alot.
Set boundries. Blogging can be become your life. It so easy to get sucked in because we all want people to come to our site. Perhaps designate a certain amount of hours in the day to blogging. Don’t constantly check your stats. It is a time hog.
Blog about what you like and talk with your commenters. I love blogs that the author takes the tiime to write back to her commenters.
If you are going to blog about products, take the time to research the product and talk to the company. Ask to try it before writing about it. So, many blogs just write whatever is on the website.
Join social networks to get your blog out there.
Absolutely. It is probably my most favorite thing! I love connecting. I wish they would come back after I comment to them!
Yes, my sister but she only comments to me through email.
Not really but I should.
I blog from home all day. See I should listen to my own advice and put boundaries on what I do.
6 days a week. I am not a natural born writer and envy those who are. I do alot of research before I write a post because I feel my readers are counting on me to give them a different perspective than what they can read on a web page.
I only use google when I am looking for something and end up on people’s blogs
When I saw Ideal Bite’s blog for the first time.
Ideal Bite’s blog
I love passionate people who care about what they do. Blogging has allowed me to connect to those people in the green industry.
Not at the moment.
Blogging has caused me to really think about what I write and to push myself to not settle for what I see on other people’s website. I share alot of myself with my community and hope that it make them feel apart of my life.
