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By Griff Wigley, on December 11, 2010, 4:15 pm
I’ve removed several comments, including my own intervention comments, from the tail end of the wind turbine discussion today. The exchanges were not relevant to the topic and in my judgment, some of them violated our guidelines. The whole thing detracted from the generally excellent conversation that occurred in that comment thread over several weeks (170+ comments).
If anyone wants to comment about my decision or otherwise discuss Locally Grown’s discussion guidelines, this is the place to do it.
By Griff Wigley, on November 7, 2010, 12:26 pm
I know I’m over a month late but I finally loaded up three autumn-themed photo banners for our Locally Grown header. They’re all all macro photos that I took around downtown Northfield last fall.
By Griff Wigley, on October 8, 2010, 6:56 pm
We’ve had a plugin glitch the past day or two that generating an error message that is hard to appreciate for a philosophy major like me:
Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/html/wi/wigleyandassociates.com/locallygrownnorthfield/wp-includes/kses.php on line 1117
I know, I know, philosophy majors should be equipped to handle second arguments for right or wrong datatypes, so I do apologize.
Rest assured, I’ve got the techies working on it. In the meantime, please do your best to ignore it as the rest of the site seems to be functioning.
By Griff Wigley, on September 23, 2010, 7:33 am
 We’d like your feedback on our features and content to help us plan and improve.
Please take this straw poll to let us know what you think. The 22 multiple choice questions should take 2 minutes or so to complete. There are also several places where you can comment and make suggestions.
We’ll publish the results here before Oct. 1.
I’ve closed comments on this blog post. If you’d like to discuss the poll, chime in on last week’s blog post, Help us design a straw poll to get feedback.
By Griff Wigley, on September 15, 2010, 6:47 am
 One of the changes we’re considering for Locally Grown is to treat some issues with more depth than we typically do. So to help us decide which issues might qualify for this, we’d like to put up a straw poll next week that would ask people to rank/rate the issues.
Here’s what I’m thinking:
Continue reading What issues would you like to see us focus on between now and the end of 2010? Help us design a straw poll.
By Griff Wigley, on September 14, 2010, 8:06 am
 We want feedback on what we’ve been doing with Locally Grown the past five years. It’ll help us to plan what features to continue, which to discontinue, which to improve.
Will you help us design a straw poll that will help us get that feedback?
Here’s what I’m thinking so far: Continue reading Help us design a straw poll to get feedback
By Griff Wigley, on September 13, 2010, 2:55 pm
 Locally Grown Triumvirate: Tracy Davis, Griff Wigley, Ross Currier We’re back.
It’s quite likely a lot of people didn’t know we did jack shit for August, as we had 6,200 unique visitors to the site during the month, down only 22% from July. I’m not sure that’s good news or not.
What’s next? Continue reading The Locally Grown Triumvirate is back
By Griff Wigley, on July 31, 2010, 11:59 pm
Starting Sunday, August 1, we’re shutting down Locally Grown for a month or so. This includes the blog, the membership sideblog, the comments, and the radio show/podcast. The site will remain up with this blog post ‘sticky’ at the top. Continue reading Locally Grown: on sabbatical starting Aug. 1
By Griff Wigley, on July 20, 2010, 5:51 am
Our blog has been slowing down lately under the weight of a lot of plugins, widgets, add-ons, and various other digital gizmos.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be going through the site cleaning house, flipping features on and off, testing new ones, and in general, making a mess of things. We’ll still be blogging daily but probably at a slower pace. We’ll keep you updated with comments to this post and may need your help occasionally to give us feedback.
By Griff Wigley, on June 24, 2010, 6:46 pm
There are several ways to get Locally Grown content.
Feeds
   
Twice weekly updates of blog headlines via email
Daily automated dispatches (complete blog post content)
And of course, you can always check out the audio show archives.
By Griff Wigley, on June 16, 2010, 11:34 pm
We’ve added two buttons to the bottom of every blog post here on LoGroNo:
- If you have a Facebook profile, you can click the Recommend button and your recommendation will show up as a one-liner on your Facebook status with a link to the blog post. Many blogs and news organizations are doing this now. For example, see this week’s MPR story on the St. Olaf memorial chime tower which, as of this writing, has 56 recommendations.
- If you use Twitter, you can more easily retweet a blog post. Clicking the retween button puts the blog post title in a Twitter text box, shortened with a Bit.ly URL link to the post.
And if you view the individual web page for a blog post (like for this one), you’ll see some additional options for ‘sharing’ the blog post via email and other social media services.
Doing this helps spread the word about a blog post. And we appreciate it.
By Griff Wigley, on May 2, 2010, 11:55 pm
 
You may have noticed that my blogging and participation here on Locally Grown have been minimal of late. I’ve been at the North Shore the past few days and before that, I was cramming on work-related stuff prior to my departure. I’m back.
By Griff Wigley, on April 18, 2010, 6:33 am
There are several ways to get Locally Grown content delivered to you:
Continue reading Free subscriptions to Locally Grown
By Griff Wigley, on February 23, 2010, 11:01 pm
By Griff Wigley, on February 15, 2010, 7:19 am
 We’ve been adding Northfield area businesses and organizations to the Favorite Pages on the sidebar of our Locally Grown Northfield Facebook Fan Page.
We’re now up to 32 34 46 47 50 60 62 64 65 66 68 70 71 74 76 (we’ve stopped counting as of March 1, 2010).
Let us know (attach a comment or contact us) if there’s an area business or organization with a Facebook Fan Page that’s not among this listing the listing on our new directory of Northfield area Facebook pages.
By Griff Wigley, on January 29, 2010, 10:50 am
We’re now following 80+ Northfield-area people and organizations who are using Twitter.
If you don’t see our LoGroNfld Twitter account among your followers, follow us and we’ll likely follow you.
Or let us know that you’d like us to follow you by attaching a comment here or by using our Contact Us form.
By Griff Wigley, on December 23, 2009, 9:23 am
The LG Triumvirate is on break from our radio show/podcast till Jan. 4th. And I’ve turned off the LG Membership Drive banner ads and the Google ads till after the 25th. I’ll have an update on the membership drive then.
  
Merry Effin’ Christmas!
By Griff Wigley, on December 21, 2009, 3:23 pm
Our RSS feed for comments seems to be suffering from a glitch. The comments are coming through via Google Reader but not for other aggregators, eg, Mozilla Thunderbird, or those built into web browsers.
I’m working on it here as I get time. Apologies. (RSS for blog posts is working fine.)
If you’re curious about RSS, see this video, RSS in Plain English:
Continue reading A glitch with the RSS feed for comments
By Griff Wigley, on December 8, 2009, 6:42 am
 We occasionally blog about non-local issues here on LoGroNo, as we’ve learned that many of our site visitors like to discuss them A) with local people/those they know; and B) in a climate of civility that exists here in part because of our Discussion Guidelines that we enforce.
Over the next few days, I’ll blog about some hot topics that go beyond Northfield: war, climate change, health care and maybe more. Here’s a look back at some of the national and international issues that have drawn interest and the number of comments attached:
Continue reading National and international issues discussed on Locally Grown
By Griff Wigley, on December 7, 2009, 11:17 am
 LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) traffic for November was both up and down from September, according to Google Analytics:
- 8,547 Absolute Unique Visitors: Previous: 8,334 (+2.56%)
- 18,242 Visits: Previous: 19,222 (-5.10%)
- 37,128 Pageviews: Previous: 41,502 (-10.54%)
That’s our second-highest ever for site visitors, eclipsed only by Nov. 2008 (election year).
Continue reading Locally Grown site traffic report for November, 2009
By Griff Wigley, on November 28, 2009, 8:22 am
 A few weeks ago, I installed a WordPress plugin that made it easy to browse this Locally Grown blog via a web browser on a mobile phone. It worked on my G1 but unfortunately, not on the iPhone. Earlier this week, Felicity Enders alerted me to a different plugin (WPTouch). I installed it and voila! it now works for the iPhone, iPod touch, Android (Google), and BlackBerry touch mobile devices. (continued)
Continue reading LoGroNo now optimized for mobile devices
By Griff Wigley, on November 26, 2009, 10:40 pm
 We’re going to be messing with the look of the LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) website over the next few days, in preparation for the launch of the membership option which is on its way Real Soon Now.
Continue reading LoGroNo site revamp
By Griff Wigley, on November 22, 2009, 4:00 pm
 We axed our old LoGroNo Group on Facebook and now have a new Locally Grown Northfield Facebook Page. If you’re a Facebook regular, you might prefer to use our Facebook page to:
Continue reading Locally Grown Northfield has a new Facebook page
By Griff Wigley, on November 1, 2009, 11:59 am
 LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) traffic for October was up 9-12% from September, according to Google Analytics:
- 8,484 Absolute Unique Visitors; Previous: 7,583 (+11.88%)
- 19,222 Visits; Previous: 17,135 (+12.18%)
- 41,502 Pageviews; Previous: 37,772 (+9.88%)
Participation
We had 1,272 comments, up from 874. That might be an all-time high.
We had 92 different people commenting, slightly higher than the 60-80 that we’ve been averaging since March, 2009.
PageRank
Our Google PageRank value is 5 out of a possible 10 points according to PRChecker. (PageRank uses a base-10 logarithmic scale, same as the Richter scale. So a site with a PageRank of 5 has approximately ten times the traffic of a site with a PageRank of 4.)
Referrers
Where did our traffic come from? Our top (we thank you!) Northfield-area referrers:
Rank – Source – Visits
03: northfield.org: 1476
10: bleeet.blogspot.com: 69
13: kymnradio.net: 61
14: nddc.org: 54
20: stolaf.edu: 37
21: pressville.org: 35
24: northfieldrotary.org: 31
31: tesselar.net: 19
34: directorsimon.wordpress.com: 17
47: milltowncycles.blogspot.com: 10
The top 100 of the 276 referrers: (continued)
Continue reading Locally Grown site traffic report for October, 2009
By Griff Wigley, on October 28, 2009, 10:43 am
 I’ve added a new plugin, MCEComments, that allows for WYSIWYG/rich text editing in our comment feature.
Feel free to test it here and let me know if you see problems with it by, you guessed it, adding a comment.
I can flip on/off some of the features/editing options.
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Testing a new WYSIWYG editor for comments
Feel free to test it here and let me know if you see problems with it by, you guessed it, adding a comment.
I can flip on/off some of the features/editing options.