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Locally Grown site traffic report for November, 2012

By Griff Wigley, on December 12, 2012, 11:32 pm

According to Google Analytics, Locally Grown’s traffic for the month of November, 2012:

Visits: 17,593
Unique Visitors: 10,312
Pageviews: 31,007

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Locally Grown Northfield is changing. Want to know more? Want to help?

By Griff Wigley, on November 23, 2012, 7:46 am

I’m in the mood to change things here at LoGro.

I’m making it up as I go.

If you’d like to participate, chime in.

I most likely will appreciate it, though I can’t promise that.

Locally Grown site traffic report for August, 2012: summer doldrums

By Griff Wigley, on September 19, 2012, 11:35 pm

According to Google Analytics, Locally Grown’s traffic for the month of August, 2012:

10,149 Unique Visitors
18,278 Visits
29,927 Pageviews

This is a big decline from the record of 13,374 Unique Visitors in June but then there’s usually a decline in July and August when more people are vacationing, including me.

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By Griff Wigley, on September 18, 2012, 11:29 pm

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Locally Grown site traffic report for June, 2012: another all-time record for unique visitors

By Griff Wigley, on July 4, 2012, 11:38 pm

According to Google Analytics, Locally Grown’s traffic for the month of June, 2012:

13,374 Unique Visitors
22,206 Visits
36,215 Pageviews

This is the third month in a row that we’ve exceeded 13,000 unique visitors in a month, and 13,374 sets a new all-time record. That June 26 blog post gave us a big bump (heh) so it’s doubtful July will be able to match that.

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By Griff Wigley, on May 31, 2012, 11:22 pm

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Locally Grown site traffic report for March, 2012

By Griff Wigley, on April 9, 2012, 8:43 am

According to Google Analytics, Locally Grown’s traffic for the month of March, 2012:

13,240 Unique Visitors
21,969 Visits
38,403 Pageviews

I’m pretty sure that this is the first time we’ve exceeded 13,000 unique visitors in a month.

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Thinner blog posts, fatter discussion

By Griff Wigley, on February 21, 2012, 11:45 pm

My consulting business (no, not my mountain biking, really!) has kept me busier than usual lately and that’s meant fewer blog posts here on LoGro. It bugs me if I don’t publish at least one new blog post here every day because I want the 500-1000 people who visit each day to always have something new to see. It’s not that I don’t have lots to blog about but rather my tendency to spend a lot of time on them, especially those that are issue-related.

So I’m going to experiment with publishing more blog posts that simply introduce a topic or issue, inviting y’all to chime in with comments, questions, links, and opinions. The topics will likely be a little more wide-ranging, with a mix of 75% Northfield-related and the rest state, national, international.

I also like tackling a difficult issue and spending weeks on it like I’m currently doing with the Northfield Fire Department. There aren’t many of those investigative-type stories that I take on but when I do, they really require a lot of work behind the scenes and then a lot of time to write them up, summarizing what I’ve learned and taking a position.

I’ve got some other ideas for new features here on LoGro but they’re not quite ready for prime time. In the meantime, let me know what ideas you have and give me your frank feedback on what you like and don’t like on the current state of LoGro affairs.

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By Griff Wigley, on February 15, 2012, 11:04 pm

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By Griff Wigley, on January 24, 2012, 9:08 pm

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Three ways to get an announcement posted on Locally Grown

By Griff Wigley, on December 12, 2011, 11:01 am

Got something to announce to the 500-1,000 people per day who visit Locally Grown? Read on.

While we’re primarily an issues-oriented blog, we also keep connected to the Northfield community by blogging about area people, events, organizations, and businesses.

So if you have something of interest to announce, consider these options:

Arrange for a photo opp
People who are willing to show up at one of my offices (tables at area coffeehouses) and have their photo taken can usually get me to blog their announcement for free. See examples here, here, and here and then contact me.
Become a member of Locally Grown
You can post 2-4 announcements/month for a measly $2.50/post. You email us the content, we create the blog post for you and publish it under your name. See recent membership posts here.
Become an advertiser on Locally Grown
A banner ad costs $4-7/week. Your ad can then link to your announcement on your website or Facebook page

If it’s a PSA (public service announcement), consider submitting it to Northfield.org, KYMN, Northfield Patch, and the Northfield News.

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By Griff Wigley, on December 11, 2011, 11:40 pm

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Slideshow and video of photos used to make the 2011 fall photo banners

By Griff Wigley, on November 6, 2011, 1:13 pm

I’ve put up four new fall photo banners at the top of LoGro: two are downtown-related (one exception), one is colleges-related, one is all-Waterford Bridge.

See the album of photos that I used to make the banners (large slideshow), or watch this high-def, one-minute video of the photos with music (Nocturne No. 2 In E Flat Major by Chopin). You can click the full-screen icon anytime while the video is playing:

If your bandwidth isn’t sufficient for the high-def version of the video, you can watch a standard version here.

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By Griff Wigley, on October 20, 2011, 11:29 pm

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Fall photo banners coming Real Soon Now

By Griff Wigley, on October 15, 2011, 11:33 pm

Now that this year’s brilliant fall colors are pretty much gone, I’ve started work on some new fall-themed photo banners to replace the summer-themed ones that rotate at the top of the LoGro’s web pages.

But I’m not done. Here’s a preview of two from Bridge Square:

LoGro was unavailable for an hour last night

By Griff Wigley, on October 4, 2011, 7:06 am

My apologies to those of you who tried to visit here last night between approximately 10-11 pm CDT and found yourselves instead at my business blog site.

LoGro is hosted on a subdirectory of my business web hosting account at Tiger Technologies. In the process of moving their sites to a new data center, my domain aliases were not updated simultaneously.

All is well now, though.

Sabbatical week #5: What should Northfielders know about or discuss this week?

By Griff Wigley, on September 4, 2011, 8:57 am

current events I’m on a working LoGro sabbatical for the month of August (and now into the first week of September), so it’s up to you to help keep each other informed about whatever you think is important and optionally discuss it in the comment thread attached to this blog post.

Upcoming community events? Yep.

Local, state or national issues. You bet.

Links to interesting stuff? Sure.

Just make sure you abide by the Locally Grown Discussion Guidelines. I’ll be lurking.

Sabbatical week #4: What should Northfielders know about or discuss this week?

By Griff Wigley, on August 29, 2011, 6:13 pm

current events I’m on a working LoGro sabbatical for the month of August, so it’s up to you to help keep each other informed about whatever you think is important and optionally discuss it in the comment thread attached to this blog post.

Upcoming community events? Yep.

Local, state or national issues. You bet.

Links to interesting stuff? Sure.

Just make sure you abide by the Locally Grown Discussion Guidelines. I’ll be lurking.

Sabbatical week #3: What should Northfielders know about or discuss this week?

By Griff Wigley, on August 22, 2011, 6:35 am

Upcoming community events? Yep.

Local, state or national issues. You bet.

Links to interesting stuff? Sure.

Just make sure you abide by the Locally Grown Discussion Guidelines. I’ll be lurking.

Sabbatical week #2: What should Northfielders know about or discuss this week?

By Griff Wigley, on August 8, 2011, 7:50 am

Upcoming community events? Yep.

Local, state or national issues. You bet.

Links to interesting stuff? Sure.

Just make sure you abide by the Locally Grown Discussion Guidelines. I’ll be lurking.

Sabbatical week #1: What should Northfielders know about or discuss this week?

By Griff Wigley, on August 1, 2011, 7:52 am

Upcoming community events? Yep.

Local, state or national issues. You bet.

Links to interesting stuff? Sure.

Just make sure you abide by the Locally Grown Discussion Guidelines. I’ll be lurking.

It’s August. Time for a LoGro working sabbatical. Here’s how you can help.

By Griff Wigley, on August 1, 2011, 7:42 am

Last August, I took the month off for my LoGro ‘sabbatical.’ This year, however, I’ve got some ideas for a ‘working sabbatical.’

My plan is to put aside 99% of my usual daily blogging of Northfield-related issues, people, photos, organizations and fluff so that I can do some experimentation. Some of the experimentation will happen here on Locally Grown but some of it may occur elsewhere.

Rather than completely shutting down the blog and comments like last year, each week I’ll put up a What should Northfielders know about or discuss this week? blog post so that all of you can inform each other about whatever you think important and optionally discuss it in the comment thread attached to the post. Upcoming community events? Yep. Local, state or national issues. Yep. Links to interesting stuff? Sure. Just make sure you abide by the Locally Grown Discussion Guidelines.

I won’t be at my normal morning corner office at GBM, but you can generally follow my early morning whereabouts on Foursquare.

Locally Grown site traffic report for July, 2011

By Griff Wigley, on August 1, 2011, 7:06 am

According to Google Analytics, Locally Grown’s traffic for the month of July, 2011:

12,049 Unique Visitors
22,815 Visits
41,354 Pageviews

That’s virtually unchanged since April when I last blogged about traffic.

If you’d like to access our Google Analytics account to view more details, contact me.

A Bikeable Community Workshop in Faribault indicates what Northfield should be doing (2)
- Ross Currier: One of the comments on the downtown parking poll was that a useful step toward making Northfield more bike-friendly would be to implement the recommendations of the Non-Motorized Transportation Task Force. Griff, perhaps you could...
- David Beimers: My take-away? We need to begin working immediately with the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota to form a Northfield area bicycle advisory committee so we can begin tackling a myriad of bike-related issues. I completely agree. I’m...
How to make bicycling in downtown Northfield safer and more popular? Sharrows might work (66)
- Griff Wigley: Paul, my apologies for the delay in replying. I’m going to use your comment for a new blog post. Soon!
- Bright Spencer: I lived and worked in Chicago, Hyde Park, to be more precise, and I biked several times a week to my job. There I could use the street or sidewalk unimpeded, but there was very little vehicle or pedestrian traffic. It was great....
- Paul Zorn: Long time no post on LoGroNo. But here is something to stir the bicycling pot, now that the weather might stay bike-conducive for a while. The author asserts, essentially, that rules written for “4000 pound” cars don’t...
- Griff Wigley: See my Storify story blog post on bike sharrows.
- Griff Wigley: A helpful sharrows cartoon from Bikeyface.com:
Photos: May snow downtown (2)
- Bright Spencer: Thanks for those super photos, Angela. I really miss my former digs and this brought me back home for a moment.
- Angela Lauterbach: How about some photos? I’ve got some for you! [img]http://locallygrownnorthf ield.org/wp-content/uploads/20 13/05/IMG_20130502_085009.jpg[ /img] [img]http://locallygrownnorthf ield.org/wp-content/uploads...
A school calendar conversation with the Northfield community: back to square one (7)
- Griff Wigley: Vote now on the seven school calendar concepts. Details on the calendar conversation blog here.
- Griff Wigley: Northfield Schools Calendar Conversation Apr. 30 mtg results: benefits, concerns, votes
- Griff Wigley: The video of last night’s school calendar panel discussion is now up; blog comment thread now open thru Apr 30.
- Griff Wigley: I’m putting on my consulting hat again this week and inviting y’all to this panel discussion video conference/live chat/blog discussion thread on the school calendar scheduled for this Wed, April 24, 8 pm.
- Griff Wigley: Also in yesterday’s Northfield News, reporter Ashley Klemer (@AshleyKlemer) has an article titled Northfield Public Schools holds second school calendar meeting. You can comment on my Calendar Conversation blog post about the article...
Time to get engaged: help develop a parking management plan for downtown Northfield (8)
- Griff Wigley: The Draft Report on the Downtown Parking Conversation is now up. blog comment thread now open thru May 3.
- Griff Wigley: In yesterday’s Northfield News, reporter Kaitlyn Walsh (@NFNKaitlyn) has an article titled Downtown Northfield parking conversation nears its end. You can comment on my Downtown Parking blog post about the article here.
- Griff Wigley: Do you live downtown? Do you live near downtown? Then you’re invited to a meeting to discuss parking issues, Mar. 28, 8 pm at the library. Details here.
Photo album: April snow downtown (1)
- Curt Benson: Nice photos.
Locally Grown Northfield is for sale (16)
- Griff Wigley: Thanks, Bill. There are some things in the works that might make my announcement of a sale premature. Stay tuned!
- Bill Ostrem: Griff, Northfield has benefited greatly from the quality of LGN and the discussion it fosters. I hope it will continue to thrive after it is sold!
- Kathie Galotti: Kiffi, Agreed.
- kiffi summa: One only has to see how LG has been dormant in recent days/weeks to see how much energy it has to absorb to keep ‘alive’ , and how much of that energy has to be primed by its moderator. But it is sad to see how this forum...
- Griff Wigley: Thank you, Bill. It’s not over yet and I have no idea what’ll happen next.
Cannon River Outfitters vs. Cannon River Outfitters (2)
- Griff Wigley: Thanks for digging that up, Curt. Very strange.
- Curt Benson: The Minnesota Secretary of State website says the name was registered by Gehring in December, 2012: http://mblsportal.sos.state.mn .us/Business/SearchDetails?fil ingGuid=475f479d-c443-e211-bc4 3-001ec94ffe7f
Snow globe repairman Dick Heibel featured in Strib video (9)
- Griff Wigley: Just an FYI to those inquiring: Dick Heibel doesn’t check this blog, he does not have email that I know of, and his web page is no longer working. You’ll have to phone him. I’m not sure if this number is current but...
- Mary-Lynn Wigodsky: Hello Mr. Heibel, I would love to have my small snow globe repaired. It has a small figurine that is broken in just two places. The base looks solid. We had it in our home growing up in the 50′s -but it may be older than...
Guess who makes ‘Mom’s Best Naturals’ cereal? duh (4)
- Gary Val Tenuta: Just found out Mom’s Best Cereals contain GMOs. Big discussion about it on the Mom’s Best Cereal Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/MomsBe stFanPage?ref=ts&fref=ts
Teresa Jensen will soon be in control of all Northfield’s information. Can we hurry up and find her a decent house? (7)
- Griff Wigley: Arlen, I actually didn’t mention or link to a realtor in my blog post or comments. I just linked to the MLS listing for the two houses I spotted on Nevada.
- Arlen Malecha: Griff – As a Realtor I am glad to see you helping promote homes for sale within the Northfield community. However, I think it is prudent to advance the local realty websites such as www.coldwellbankernorthfield.c om vs the one...
- Jesse Steed: Hello Teresa, I’m a Realtor with Edina Realty based in Northfield. If there’s anything I can do to help, please let me know. My office number is 507-645-1179.
- Jesse Steed: Thanks for posting my listing! Here’s a link to 410 Nevada that includes the virtual tour (an audio tour of the home’s history) performed by the seller himself! http://www.edinarealty.com/jes se-steed-realtor/homes-for-...
- Teresa Jensen: Thanks, Bill; it looks like a lovely home, but my home search is limited to Northfield city limits. Thanks, too, Griff, for the Nevada house links– I will check out in person when I arrive in May!
Northfield Park & Rec Advisory Board approves ‘man boob’ swimsuit policy (7)
- Griff Wigley: Good to know, Andy, especially if you’re mountain biking.
- Andy Palmer: As someone with moobs, I’m more than happy to cover them.
The pros and cons of forming a regional bicycle council (7)
- Griff Wigley: I wonder how this could have been avoided.
- Griff Wigley: In today’s Strib: Wooddale Avenue’s pioneering bike lanes in Edina look doomed The street that has baffled Edinans since it was re-striped last fall may get an easier-to-understand painting fix this spring. Wooddale...
- Griff Wigley: Kiffi, I don’t know that it would be practical to try to launch a Northfield Bike Task Force, a Dundas Bike Task Force, a Rice County Bike Task Force, a Bridgewater Township Bike Task Force, etc. Maybe at some point those...
- Griff Wigley: David, I don’t think the primary purpose of a regional bike council would be to secure taxpayer money for bike projects/infrastructure. It would be to study, recommend, plan, guide, educate, collaborate, etc.
Corey Butler resigns from Northfield Patch. What will the impact be? (12)
- Griff Wigley: Mary, the trend among hyperlocal online news entities seems to be heading towards the non-profit membership model where you get extra benefits (see, MinnPost members, Texas Tribune members). I’m not sure Northfield is big...
- Mary Schier: Patch (AOL) is under intense pressure from shareholders to make a profit this year. It’s had a hiring freeze for some time and with fewer people, it has been going to more regional coverage. This works OK (not great, but OK) in...
- kiffi summa: Agreed …I’m about to unsubscribe. There’s also a tinge of sensationalism, instead of serious news updates; for example: what’s with the story of the death of a 26 year old Lonsdale woman ‘above the...
- Griff Wigley: I agree, Jane. And they seem to be over-reaching to make the connection to Northfield on some stories, eg: Northfield State Sen. Dave Thompson Mulling Run for Governor. Next up: Dundas State Sen. Kevin Dahle?
- Jane McWilliams: My observation is that there is no local reporting . . . just as I feared!
Homeschooling and unschooling in the Northfield area (9)
- Donna Volkmann: I see this forum is pretty old from 2008. Does anyone know if there are any homeschool co-ops in Northfield for social interaction? I see there are many in the cities but can’t seem to find any in Northfield. Also, do you...
Southwest Neighborhood files discrimination lawsuit against the City of Northfield for misspelt street signs (7)
- Griff Wigley: Nfld News: Northfield orders new street signs to fix misspellings “Nineth” Street in Northfield will soon be back to Ninth Street. City staff recently ordered new sign blades from the city’s vendor to fix the...
Change the Open Meeting Law to allow our public officials to discuss some issues online without fear (54)
- Griff Wigley: Today’s Nfld News: Proposed bill would take Northfield public meetings discussion online Minnesota Newspaper Association attorney Mark Anfinson said it’s “entirely sensible” to update existing law to reflect the advantages that...
What might it look like to ‘take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this’? (91)
- kiffi summa: another tragedy: in a middle school outside Detroit, amidst 800 students,a popular, non-bullied 14year old shoots himself in the head, fatally, with a 40 caliber Glock pistol…. School had no metal detectors; staff said he was...
- kiffi summa: Maybe I’m just too saddened by this story now, david… but I don’t think so… I have long thought that a total overhaul of our correctional system , with its many abuses, needs to be done… but that does not...
- David Henson: Kiffi, funny how we always see these stories differently. The USA has over 1 million people enslaved in our prison system. The criminal justice system is a sham. Corrections is big big business (some great stocks if you have the...

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