'Edibles Advocate Alliance Interview'

Edibles Advocate Alliance Interview

By Interviewer at 12/28/09 08:27

What is the name of your Blog?

Edibles Advocate Alliance

What is your name?

Emily Brooks

Where are you from? (include country, state and/or city)

Connecticut, USA

What is your current age or age range?

35-40

Please describe your blog

Nurturing social entrepreneurs who support local agriculture, create sustainable farming & sustainable food systems, and implement green solutions for healthy living.

Describe the main purpose of your blogging, what are you trying to accomplish?

Changing the social norm towards agricultural, environmental, and food sustainability.

What blogging platform do you do and why?

Blogger

What do you blog the most about?

Top 10 webpages and websearches per day from a Social Entrepreneur and sustainable food and agriculture perspective.

What kind of blogs make you angry?

those who rehash information already written.

Give five of your best blogging tips.

be funny be real be informative be accessible be well researched

What are some things you would NEVER blog about?

my personal opinion

Did you start blogging for the purpose of making money and if so, are you making enough money?

blogging helps me change the social norm

How long have you been blogging?

1 year

About how many hours per day do you spend blogging?

1 hour

Do you track RSS feeds and if so, how many do you usually track daily?

20 or so

Do you use Digg, and why or why not?

yup. gotta love Digg.

Do you use Stumbleupon, and why or why not?

yup. VERY useful!

What promotional techniques work best for you and why?

proper content. who wants to read you if you're way off base? Proper content is all the promotion one really needs.

If you could post a blog on any blog in the world, which one would it be and why?

a right-wing conservative blogsite. Prevention and sustainability are not words in their normal lexicon. Thinking about the issues of our day in a prevention and sustainable context would piss off most of their constituency.

What mistakes have you made that you could warn others about?

LENGTH. LENGTH. LENGTH. you've got 15 seconds of someone's time. make it count.

Have you met anyone offline as a result of your blog?

yes.

What is the url of your blog?

Edibles Advocate Alliance

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