Editor's Note: Meet Our Newest Bloggers!

Meet the newest bloggers on Bellevue Patch!

Karen Fujii

is the founder and CEO of Media Footprint, a multimedia company specializing in web design & development, video production and marketing. Karen has worked in domestic and international media and her work has been translated into multiple languages. She is joining Bellevue Patch to blog about business branding 101 from start-ups to non-profits and other relevant information that can be useful tools for your organization. Check out Karen's .

Nancy Neupert

was born and raised in Seattle and Bellevue. She has discovered photography and wants to share her photo adventures around the area's city parks and waterways. She's already contributed to several Viewfinder slideshows on Bellevue Patch. Check out

Mike Holliday

is the commander of the Civil Air Patrol’s Overlake Composite Squadron based in Redmond, and he has a blog on the squadron on Redmond Patch. Mike's daughter also is playing on a juniors softball all star team made up with players from Bellevue and Kirkland 14- and 15-year-olds, who are competing to play in the Little League World Series in Kirkland in August. This would give them a chance to play against teams from around the world. They are in a tournament against a number of local teams for the honor. Mike is blogging about the Bell-Kirk team's progress until they are eliminated or win the whole thing, whichever comes first (so root for the Bell-Kirk team, so his blog continues!). Read his

Do you want to blog for Patch?

If you're a chatterbox, if you're a know-it-all, if you're passionate about Bellevue - we’re looking for you.

If you would like to share your knowledge about your community and you and know how to put a sentence together, we have a place for you here.

If you're passionate about transportation, or politics, or religion, you have a place here. If you are a teen who wants to write about your school or so-called life, a senior citizen who remembers how Bellevue "used to be," a hardware store owner with an axe to sell (or grind), a single mom or dad, a shopaholic, we'd love to hear from you. If you're on the softball team trying to beat the softball team already blogging for Bellevue Patch, you are welcome here.

As political season gets going, we would especially welcome people with political views to apply to be bloggers. If you already hold office, or you are a prospective office holder, we would also be happy to chat with you about blogging on Bellevue Patch.

If you've never had a blog, we'll show you how to do it. If you already have a blog, you can cross-post on Bellevue Patch and drive viewers to your own site. In short, we want to get the community talking and listening and we want you to be a part of the conversation.

If you don't have a blog, drop me a line and let's chat. I have a few ideas for blogs that I'd like to see on Bellevue Patch, and I bet you have things that you'd like to share with your neighbors.

We will not own the the content. It’s yours. Forever. Feel free to post it anywhere else you like. It’s your blog after all.

If you are interested, contact me at venice.buhain@patch.com or give me a call at 425-999-2222.