Helium's Home and Garden Channel Managers

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Meet your Home & Garden Channel Manager team

Channel Managers come from all around the globe, from all sorts of backgrounds. Our team is no different - with members from Michigan, Virginia, Texas, New York, Nevada, and even the UK and Trinidad. We are fathers, mothers, husbands and wives, working stiffs and freelancers, young and older. We all share a love of the written word, as well as a love of all things related to our homes and gardens.

Read all about us right here. Interested in joining us? Check out our Help Wanted section, below, right.

Channel Manager for H&G

Susan Klatz Beal

As of the end of January 2010, I have become a Co-Channel Manager for the Home and Gardening Channel. I will be working with Jim Bessey as we try to build this channel into something bigger and better than it already is. Obviously, because of my gardening background, I will be overseeing all of that aspect of our channel, but I will be involved in

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see also:  Susan's Writer's Portfolio   and   All About Plants and Gardens, hosted by Susan

Home repairs: B. Leslie Baird

I received my Associates of Science degree in Engineering Technology MANY years ago. I have worked in the construction industry and run my own small home based internet business. I have always enjoyed writing as a hobby and started publishing my works at the end of 2007.

I am also a Sub Channel Manager for home repair in the Home and Garden section. Please feel free to contact me if you need any help. I try to respond as quickly as possible...... when I am not in the process of destroying something or repairing.... read more

Furniture

Brooke Shambley

 I am a writer. Well, aren't we all? I went to college intending to be an English major and came out with a degree in Art, a minor in Music, and another minor in Leadership. I admit, I was extremely daunted by the proposition of two senior theses. However, most importantly I found that as I wrote in the collegiate setting, my professors in English sought to transform my writing into a form more scholarly and more "fitting", instead of just leading me to discover ..... Read more

 See also:  Your Guide to the Furniture Channel and The Basics of Interior Design

Cleaning: Barb Hopkins

Barb Hopkins is currently a stay-at-home mom with a degree in Theatre Arts Management. Prior to her current position, she worked professionally as a marketing director for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival.

During her marketing career she wrote many press releases, public service announcements and several local and regional radio commericials. As a volunteer for events like The American Cancer Society's Relay For Life, she has contributed articles.....read more.

Interiors

Alexandra Heep

Expressing myself through writing has been a lifetime dream... I am grateful to have found Helium, and a platform from which to speak as a writer...

...I am one of the Channel Managers  for Helium. My assigned sub-channel is Home Interiors. I also serve as a guide for members who have English as their non-native language. Please feel free to contact me at any time with any questions or concerns in those areas...  Read More

see also: Alexandra's hand-made jewelry on Etsy

Perennials, Lenna Gonya

Hello,
I am from a small town in Ohio, the Heartland. I have been married for almost thirty four years, and have two grown sons, who live next door.

I have worked as a reporter for a local newspaper, covering human interest stories and political news, and, as a realtor. I have also been involved in sales and marketing, and, as a home school teacher..... read more

Trees & Shrubs and Landscaping

Glory Lennon

 Who knew so much could happen to an amateur horticulturist, just because she was lucky enough to stumble across HELIUM...

I love plants and gardening and because of this love I've written a garden column for over a decade for our local paper.....

I have just been appointed keeper of the Tree and Shrub Sub-channel in the Home and Gardening channel. ... So if you have any concerns, queries or comments do feel free to let me know. I am here to help and, of course to speak for the trees and shrubs, for they have no tongues as we all know.... Read More

see also:  Glory's Ornamental Grasses zone and Landscaping with Trees Zone

What is a Channel Manager?

Channel Managers are writers' and readers' guides around Helium.  Their "contact this writer" buttons always work, and if they don't know, they will find an answer to your questions.

They have amassed articles in their chosen subject, and many others, and are willing to share that knowledge with any who would seek it.

Imbibed in the spirit of giving, stewards help readers find material, writers find their voice and everyone find Helium.

Conduits in the information chain, stewards bring Helium news to the public eye.  They twitter and stumble upon most everything, even if they digg it, too.

Real world knowledge comes from their hands-on experiences.  Channel Managers open windows.

Quality is the Channel Manager mantra.  In their own writing, in the writing of their mentees, on the Helium site, they strive to bring the best information to the fore through writing, rating and education.

Many stewards inhabit the forums.  They are the writer's pipeline into Helium.  By suggesting titles, opening debates and listening to the writers, stewards find ways to bring knowledge to everyone.

Channel Managers learn.  They keep their minds open to opposing opinion, marketing strategy, hot topics, demands for content and new ways to educate themselves, all while finding new ways to help Heliumites the world over.

If you need a hand, a  Channel Manager will be there. 

If you would like to lend a hand, become a steward. Read Barbara Whitlock's article on the  Channel Manager Program.  Contact me for more details.

Meet all the Helium Channel Managers.

We are all here for you.

Ann Marie Dwyer, Parenting Channel manager