It’s a race for the top. And what a race it is
on Twitter. Let me give you some background to this. A hashtag is a
# symbol that is used to identify content about a specific topic.
So if I wrote a #gardening post - people who were searching on
#gardening, [...]
Here’s one of the problems I have with social media and information flow and I know I’m not alone on this one.
It’s about the amazing amount of information being delivered out there without editorial input.
Let me illustrate. I used to follow some 1200 people on twitter and many of them would deliver interesting data [...]
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Amy Stewart (who I admire a great deal) just wrote one of her wonderful posts on Garden Rant. Now, the reason I think it’s so wonderful is because it encapsulates what some of us go through every now and then and asks a very pertinent question.
It’s not that we don’t like what we do [...]
Once again, I find myself asking questions about what my readers like or don’t like. I see a lot of non-gardening folks going to video for their blogs and promoting the use of video. I’ve been messing about with producing information this way (as have other garden writers) and I have [...]
I know the hassles my aunt went though in finding ideas for landscaping a hill on her cottage property. She struggled with a steep slope that had been part of the construction and was constantly being eroded.
Here are the solutions we came up with for this shady spot.
1) We put logs across the [...]
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