Good Morning:

I want introduce you to an exciting new website that has the whole state buzzing, particularly around the Capitol in Tallahassee. And I want to offer you a no-cost opportunity to get your voice heard.

FloridaVoices, www.floridavoices.com, is an online opinion site focused on Florida. Every day, it gathers opinion content from Florida daily and weekly newspapers and provides a one-stop source to see what Florida influence leaders are talking about today. 

It also offers a stable of high-profile columnists from across the state. Additionally, it facilitates an online roundtable to discuss the key challenges facing our state -- and already has a track record of engaging the leaders of state government, industry and citizen groups.

I’m contacting you today to tell you about the site’s My Turn feature, and offering you the chance to place your opinion essay before an audience of movers and shakers -- including newspaper opinion page editors across Florida.

You know how hard it is to get heard these days, with so many cuts (and biases) in media outlets. My Turn is your spot to be seen and heard. In addition to being published on our site, your op-ed will be syndicated to Florida newspapers for possible publication in print. So far, 17 papers have signed up for our syndication service.

So, what’s on your mind? What do you want to say? Is there something Florida needs to know? Tell us, in 550 words. Tell all of Florida.

Simply email your My Turn response to our editor, Rosemary Goudreau, at rgoudreau@FloridaVoices.com. 
