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Published December 8, 2009 by Griff Wigley

National and international issues discussed on Locally Grown

globe3t 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:

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international issues National

Published December 7, 2009 by Griff Wigley

Locally Grown site traffic report for November, 2009

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).

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Published November 28, 2009 by Griff Wigley

LoGroNo now optimized for mobile devices

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)

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Felicity Enders G1 iPhone mobile apps

Published November 27, 2009 by Griff Wigley

LoGroNo site revamp

under-construction 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.

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Published November 22, 2009 by Griff Wigley

Locally Grown Northfield has a new Facebook page

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:

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Published November 1, 2009 by Griff Wigley

Locally Grown site traffic report for October, 2009

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)

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Published October 28, 2009 by Griff Wigley

Testing a new WYSIWYG editor for comments

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…

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Comments WYSIWYG

Published October 25, 2009 by Griff Wigley

Locally Grown’s membership option: what might the benefits be?

We’re planning on offering a paid Locally Grown membership option Real Soon Now. The idea is to continue some (much?) of what we do now for free, maybe supported with ads.

But we’d also offer a paid option in which a variety of benefits are available to members only. So what might the benefits be? I’ve thought of four and would like to hear a reaction to these, as well as ideas on other possible benefits. (continued)

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Locally Grown Membership

Published October 18, 2009 by Griff Wigley

Locally Grown site traffic report for September, 2009

LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) traffic for September was up 5-18% from August, according to Google Analytics.

September compared to August:

7,583 Absolute Unique Visitors; Previous: 6,417 (+18.17%)
17,135 Visits; Previous: 16,216 (+5.67%)
37,772 Pageviews; Previous: 34,870 (+8.32%)

Participation

We had 874 comments, up from 785. I missed getting the number of commenters but we’ve been averaging 60-80 different people commenting since March, 2009.

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Referrers

Where did our traffic come from? Our top Northfield-area referrers:

Rank – Source – Visits

3: northfield.org: 1295
11: kymnradio.net: 59
16: stolaf.edu: 44
18: bleeet.blogspot.com: 40
19: northfieldrotary.org: 39
28: grovelandscaping.com: 32
29: nddc.org: 31

The top 50 (we thank you!) of the 285 referrers: (continued)

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