A year ago, Tracy announced that we’d begun using a service called Gravatar (globally recognized avatar) that allows people who add comments here to put a face to their name.
Many of you who regularly comment have already set up your Gravatar. For example, here’s a snapshot of 8 comments attached to the Sweet Lou’s post:
Tracy [...]
LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) traffic for December declined significantly, according to Google Analytics.
22,185 Visits; Previous: 25,918 (-14.40%)
7,545 Absolute Unique Visitors; Previous: 10,075 (-25.11%)
52,832 Pageviews; Previous; 63,137 (-16.32%)
Why the big decline? Two national/international stories back in Oct/Nov drew a huge number of new (one-time) visitors:
Bonnie Obremski’s RepJ story titled Northfield video game [...]
I just upgraded to the new version of WordPress, released this week. Not all gizmos and doodads are working perfectly yet.
Back in early October, I blogged that we had a record September for unique visitors (6,921) and comments (1,211). I was expecting we’d do even better in October because of the elections, but alas, when we unveiled a new look to LoGroNo in mid-Oct, we forgot to put back the Google Analytics code that tracks [...]
We’ve got a new Locally Grown page called LG Live.
You can find it via the top nav bar (red arrow in the screenshot).
It has the Twitter badges for Bonnie, Tracy and me… regular updates on what we’re doing that’s civic-related.
There’s a Meebo chat window if you’d like to IM me. And a Skype status [...]
We have a new Locally Grown Drop.io account (pronounced ‘drop ee oh’) that allows anyone to upload files of any kind to us.
This is particularly helpful if the files are too big for email attachments. (Files uploaded there are publicly viewable until we delete them.)
Our LoGroNo Drop.io account also provides a [...]
When things broke, we decided to put up a new theme for Locally Grown that we’d begun working on this past summer but never finished.
Sean Hayford O’Leary did the heavy lifting on the new theme, with some collaboration with Tracy.
So let us know what you like/don’t like, what problems you see, what suggestions you [...]
LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) traffic for September was up over the previous month, according to Google Analytics:
22,911 Visits; Previous: 21,680 (+5.68%)
6,921 Absolute Unique Visitors; Previous: 6,321 (+9.49%)
54,907 Pageviews; Previous: 54,748 (+0.29%)
The number of unique visitors was just shy of 7,000 for the month, our highest ever.
#1 blog post for September was Presidential [...]
The Northfield News has been running this ad in the want-ad pages of their B Section recently. The ad headline reads: “Click here for Northfield’s largest online audience.” The ad copy sates that they get “…over 400,000 monthly page views.”
Here on Locally Grown, we get about 60,000 pageviews/month. I don’t put too much emphasis [...]
LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) traffic for August was down slightly over the previous month, according to Google Analytics:
21,680 Visits; Previous: 23,510 (-7.78%)
6,321 Absolute Unique Visitors; Previous: 6,555 (-3.57%)
54,748 Pageviews; Previous: 62,071 (-11.80%)
Traffic was 85-95% higher than August of 2007.
#1 blog post for August was Were Citizens Mean to Administrator? [...]
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As the moderator of our online discussions here Locally Grown, sometimes I:
publicly admonish people who I think have violated our Discussion Guidelines
put repeat offenders in the penalty box (AKA, moderate mode)
banish people completely
So if you have comments or questions about:
the Discussion Guidelines
my enforcement methods
my judgment/rationale in any given situation
or anything else related to our discussions [...]
LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) traffic for July was up slightly over the previous month, according to Google Analytics:
Visits: 23,510. Previous: 21,788 (+7.90%)
Absolute Unique Visitors: 6,555. Previous: 6,556 (-0.02%)
Pageviews: 62,071. Previous: 56,099 (+10.65%)
Those are all-time highs for visits and pageviews. All-time high for unique visitors was 6,927 in April.
#1 [...]
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It was a little over a year ago now when we launched this version of LoGroNo.org. It’s summer again, and it’s time for a new design! So over the month of June, Tracy and I have been working on a new design for the site. The layout is similar, but the look is a bit [...]
Locally Grown has been chosen to test an innovative project called Representative Journalism (RepJ). Bonnie Obremski is the RepJ reporter/journalist currently assigned to Northfield.
See the complete listing of all her stories here, most current ones first.
RepJ stories by Bonnie Obremski Bruce Anderson Bill Ostrem David Bly, State Rep. 25B Ross Currier, NDDC Exec. Director Kevin Dahle, State Senator, D25 Bruce Morlan/Politics and a Pint League of Women Voters Northfield