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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Be A Local Voice on Patch

Patch's Local Voices platform gives you a place to share your thoughts with neighbors. Join the conversation!

Patch is looking for people to join our throng of Local Voices. We want people who can riff on a variety of topics, share their personality and engage the community in discussions. Patch is more than a news site, it's an online conversation about your community. And we want to hear your voice. I you are any of the following, who is looking for a platform and forum to reach the community: Then, we want to hear from you. This isn't a reporting job. It's blogging. You write what you want to say when you want to say it. Do it on your schedule, whether that's posting multiple entries per day or a couple times a month. Patch won't own what you post, so you can repost your entries to your other blogs. Much like The Huffington Post has done, Patch…

Mike Itzenhuiser

8:52 am on Monday, March 18, 2013

You forgot one thing....... Can you spell?   more ›

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Gun Control, PGA and Unions Among Hottest Blog Posts

From gun control to the Packers to Gov. Scott Walker's State of the State address, Patch bloggers weighed in on a variety of topics this week. Here is a look at some of the most popular posts over the past week.

Blog posts in Wisconsin Patches this past week covered the gamut — from gun control to unions and the Junior PGA coming to Milwaukee. Every day, Patch's Local Voices bloggers share information, insight and opinion about what matters to them. Here's a selection of blogs from throughout the past week. In, "Why Pinterest Could Be a Real Estate Agents Greatest Online Marketing Tool," Patch blogger Tammi Washington talks about the power of Pinterest and how one pin can be worth more than 1,000 words.  With 80-plus comments, "Gun Control: Why It Wouldn't Have Prevented the Newton, CT Killings," this post by Brian Dey garnered quite an extensive conversation on Patch. He talks about how each of the most recent shootings took place in "gun-free" …

Lee

10:54 am on Monday, January 21, 2013

I have no pinterest in this. (That was a pun) By the way, the original blog on that latest fad (pinterest) read like an advertisement for using yet another time waster on the web. I have wasted enough time rehashing this and won't be doing it again. Once is enough for me.   more ›

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