Gardening and Social Media
I didn’t start gardening until I moved to Austin.
That’s me I waited until I left the rich black dirt and found the wet brown clay and hot dry sun to figure out growing things could be soul building. By the time I got to Massachusetts I was a regular flower farmer. I spent a hours, days, seasons living in a dormant three-acre spread. In the fifth year I was rewarded to a winding, spectacular show of color.
What Are You Doing to Keep Your Garden Growing?
As a beginning gardener, I learned that just plopping pretty plants into the ground got pretty darn expensive — not to mention time-intensive — It didn’t make lasting beauty. The scratches and the itching sometimes lasted longer. Plants that don’t have the right nutrients or climate are hard to keep thriving.
Soon I was learning what made solid ground for things to grow. Gardening takes strategy and strategy is knowing what you know and knowing what you can and can’t control.
Gardening and social media have a lot in common.
What are you doing to keep your community growing?
I make connections.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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I do not garden but wanted to say hello to a fellow Austin blogger 🙂
I haven’t been following you long but continue to look forward to useful information from you.
I am loving this series of posts relating gardening to blogging and social media because it is my world. I write about gardening to create habitats for wildlife, “to give a little back” for all the habitats we have destroyed or diminished.
My social media efforts are relatively new; I started in mid-July after finally completing my thesis and getting out of grad school.
I started with a blog, a LinkedIn profile, and a Facebook page, but just a couple of weeks ago, I bit the bullet and dove into the world of Twitter. I don’t know why I was so resistant to it, I guess I just didn’t understand it, but I love Twitter.
I’ve connected with a lot of like-minded folks and discovered the power of retweets. It’s very immediate and I love that. My articles have been tweeted and retweeted and I’m finding a whole new audience.
Plus I love that it’s mutual. I retweet other folks articles and links because I think they are useful, and others retweet my stuff for the same reason.
I really appreciate folks like you who are willing to share your knowledge and tips to help people like me understand this whole new world. Thank you.
Understand you in long my harbour but go on and look forward to the useful information from you.