January 9, 2009 – 5:03 pm
Melissa Reeder, Northfield’s Information Technology Department manager, has set a goal to begin uploading streaming videos of the City Council meetings to the Internet in 2010, so long as there is money in the budget for the $8,000-$10,000 upgrade.
With streaming videos, image files flow to a video player on a Web site in a continuous [...]
January 9, 2009 – 8:35 am
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 [...]
January 6, 2009 – 5:55 pm
I surprised Mayor Mary Rossing in her store Present Perfect this morning with my video camera. I mostly asked her questions that had to do with Monday night’s City Council meeting, which you can read a bit about here. We touched upon her changes in meeting procedure, her tactics on facilitating meetings and her outlook [...]
November 18, 2008 – 11:37 am
Nate Jacobi, Assistant Director for Civic Engagement at St. Olaf’s Center for Experiential Learning, has alerted us to their Google map mashup “highlighting over 50 Northfield-area Community Organizations (nonprofits, schools and city/government agencies).”
Attach a comment if you see any problems with it or if there are resources that should be included.
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November 7, 2008 – 11:16 am
It was a full house for last night’s Fiber Optic Feasibility Study open house at Northfield City Hall. Melissa Reeder, IT director for the City of Northfield, hosted the meeting, with the presentation by Doug Dawson, the fiber feasibility consultant from CCG Consulting.
See Melissa’s comments on the meeting. I’ve closed comments on this blog post [...]
October 14, 2008 – 9:11 pm
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 [...]
September 11, 2008 – 6:37 am
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 [...]
In today’s Star Tribune, there is an article about the City of Monticello’s efforts to make itself one of the most wired communities in the country. Apparently, the effort has been complicated by a lawsuit.
According to the city’s attorney, when Monticello asked TDS Telecom to provide fiber-optic connections to every home and business in the [...]
Apparently every Northfield area landline with a 645 exchange got a vishing scam phone call yesterday. We got a voicemail at our house. The scam prompts you to dial a number to reactivate your bank ATM or debit card.
I’m heading to the Minnesota Journalism Center at the Univ. of Minnesota later this morning for a conference titled New Pamphleteers/New Reporters: Convening Entrepreneurs Who Combine Journalism, Democracy, Place and Blogs. It’s one of a ongoing series of national conferences from the Journalism That Matters team.
The RepJ team will be attending, too, and [...]
I can’t tell if this is a “joke”, or if our friends at Northfield.org (now Southfield.org) were hacked. What gives?
Click here to see the screenshot I took around noon today, with “Page Not Found” error.
What is twitter?
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
Like my colleague Michael Fraase, I tried Twitter a few times when it was first introduced but it didn’t ‘take hold’ for me.
But [...]
January 26, 2008 – 8:53 am
As Chair of the Northfield Mayor’s Task Force on Blogosphere Grammar, I feel compelled to dispel a few misperceptions.
A blog is analogous to a newspaper. A blogger is like a reporter or columnist who publishes articles or opinions in the paper. Blog posts or entries are like the individual articles or columns. Readers who [...]
January 20, 2008 – 2:12 pm
You may have noticed a subtle change when viewing comments - a teeny little photo of the commentors by their comments (as of right now, just Griff and me). We know from our online and offline feedback that the LoGroNo community wants a better sense of who’s talking in our online dialogs, and so, [...]
January 17, 2008 – 6:57 am
Tracy and I discussed our Locally Grown civility/discussion guidelines. Ross’ attorney says he’s still on medical leave.
And for those of you wondering about the use of the phrase ‘you ignorant slut’ here on Locally Grown, here’s a little Saturday Night Live (SNL) historical blurb on Jane Curtin:
In a parody of the “Point-Counterpoint” [...]
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.
RepJ stories by Bonnie Obremski