WANTED: Napa Bloggers, All Topics and Ages

If you like to write, take photos or make videos and you care deeply about something in Napa, here's a new way to share your information, artwork and opinions with our community.

Whether it's education, government, business, culture, social issues, shopping, dog training techniques or all the best places to go running in Napa — if it's your thing, we'd like you to consider blogging for Napa Patch!

Get the word out about your community organization, share your expertise or simply voice your opinion. We want to serve our community through this new blogging platform.

Called "Local Voices," our blog platform will be more free-wheeling than the Napa Patch homepage. Although the editor has the final say on whether a blog post is published, for the most part, anything goes as long as it's legal. Bloggers own their blogs.

Napa Patch will not control the blog content, meaning that if you already have a blog, you can repost here what you wrote on other sites. If you don't have a blog and would like to start one, our platform makes it easy. Bloggers will be unpaid, and Patch will not edit them.

This is a chance to share your expertise and opinions with a wider audience! Here's how to get started: Email editor Louisa Hufstader at louisa.hufstader@patch.com.

We're looking for all kinds of voices and topics that reflect our Napa community in all its many facets: jobs, schools, churches, sports, politics, the environment, land use -- you name it.

The "Local Voices" blog platform on Napa Patch makes its debut May 4. Be a part of it!