According to Facebook, here is how it is going to work:
Lebolife blogs are launched! Editor in Chief Susan Morgans has the first one; we'll publish three more tomorrow and then we'll publish every Tuesday and Thursday. We have a crew of 20 or so friends and neighbors who have lots to share over the coming weeks. Comments are on (but moderated) so feel free to contribute--constructively, of course!So who is on deck? Click here for the blogger roll call, which includes their bios and photos.
Congratulations on the new blog(s), Susan and Company.
Update March 6, 2013 12:00 PM Check out Upper St. Clair's magazine budget.
TOWNSHIP/SCHOOL DISTRICT MAGAZINE FUND UPPER ST. CLAIR TODAY MAGAZINE
Rob Papke. Of course.
ReplyDeleteYeah, those 9:30 PM meetings are a bear, aren't they, Susan? If you stay until the end, sometimes they last until 11:00.
ReplyDeleteElaine
Pay me a hundred grand & I'll shut the lights & lockup !
ReplyDeleteThat's it, a 30 second promo to read the May issue of the magazine?
ReplyDeleteWhew, I sure hope it gets better with age.
"The public information office is working on a "Lebo Life" blog that will appear as a tab on lebomag.com and will complement the magazine and its various social media. The aim of this blog, which should launch within the next month, will be to promote positive and constructive conversations about things that enhance quality of life in Mt. Lebanon. There are about 20 people who will initially post on the blog, with each posting at least twice a month in seven categories, including areas such as family fun, house and garden, travel and leisure, food and drink, etc."
ReplyDeleteWhich of the seven categories does this first blog post fit? It may be a wonderful story of one family's experience with a tragedy and how they dealt with it, but what can we contribute... stories of our own tragedies.
My first thought was that maybe we're suppose to chime in on drunk driving problems in Mt. Lebanon but that seems an odd introduction to a blog that aims to promote positive and constructive conversations about things that enhance life in MTL.
Perhaps Ms. Morgans was under pressure to produce. She had to scramble to get something released.
ReplyDeleteSob stories of attending evening meetings does not "promote positive and constructive conversations about things that enhance quality of life in Mt. Lebanon."
ReplyDeleteYou'll know you're an "interesting" person if you appear in Lebolife!
ReplyDeleteA positive and constructive opening would have been a story on some people like Elaine, Bill Matthews, Bill Lewis, John Ewing, David Huston, Dave Franklin. An interview on why they're so active, so vocal and why they think their opinions are important.
ReplyDeleteTrouble is this would go against the PIO's agenda. Theirs only one positive, constructive view of what is good for Lebo!
Tue, Mar 5, 2013 9:37 am
ReplyDelete"This is an important notice from LeboALERT.
Now online: Lebolife blogs, 21 Mt. Lebanon residents share life expertise and experiences with you. www.lebomag.com. Blogger bios under 'about us.'"
Elaine
Life expertise???
ReplyDeleteHow bizarre, does that mean the other 32,000 or so residents are not life experts?
Thank goodness we have Lebolife support.
I can imagine some senior citizen that has lived through maybe the depression, a world war, personal catastrophes or travelled the world and met with real movers and shakers taking advice from the Lebolife experts seriously.
I didn't want to bash the new blog. I really didn't.
ReplyDeleteBut a "LeboAlert" to announce its arrival.
Beyond tacky.
There are some interesting people and I appreciate that they have volunteered their time to try to make Mt. Lebanon a better, more interesting place to live.
Because of the non-controversial nature of the LeboLife blog I do not at all expect a huge shift in traffic from this blog to theirs. As far as I am concerned it is just some people sharing some personal experiences that happen to live in Lebo.
There are scores of people of might find that interesting.
I am not concerned about a shift in traffic. It is just another perspective on Mt. Lebanon. To me, it is an extension of MTL Magazine. In fact, I recognized some names as present and past contributors, who are contributing pro bono. I see it no different than mtl on Facebook.
ReplyDeleteIt appears that there are 21 individual blogs, so readers have a variety of options.
As I said more than three years ago, "Do we really need another blog in Mt. Lebanon? Yes, we do! This blog features articles that aren’t published on other Mt. Lebanon blogs. The comments reveal information that the School District wants to keep quiet."
There is room for everyone.
Elaine
That is true 10:27 there will be scores of people that will find the blog interesting. There are a couple that I have had the pleasure of meeting.
ReplyDeleteOne is this gentleman and I love his quote on experts.
"What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much."
- Malcolm Forbes
21 blogs that Susan controls,Elaine. She has no control over yours..
ReplyDeleteDidn't mean to infer that Forbes was or would be a Lebolife blogger @11:00 am. There are some words missing from that post.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting.
ReplyDeleteLebolife's first blog has been up longer than Elaine's blog alerting her audience that Lebolife is "open for business."
Lebolife comments: 0
Lebocitizens: 15
Even Elaine's later post on Brown already has two comments.
And Elaine doesn't enjoy the help of a Leboalert.
How many of the Lebolife bloggers signed the petition to limit the amount of the high school renovation?
ReplyDeleteI believe only one did.
ReplyDeleteElaine
One wasn't old enough to sign it.
ReplyDeleteElaine
11:32 AM, my announcement came before the LeboALERT did. ;)
ReplyDeleteElaine
Yes true, even after the alert as of around noon today there weren't any comments.
ReplyDeleteYour post on the first Lebolife blog had to follow it, but appeared before the Leboalert, right?
Lebolife blogs is too hard to navigate. Click here. Click there. Me thinks that is by design. Is it for higher numbers or is it part of the obesity initiative to increase activity ?
ReplyDeleteClicking here and there is how I get my aerobic exercise.
ReplyDeleteI think the system is designed to encourage more page views.
Elaine
It has been brought to my attention that a certain blogger should think about their delinquent township and school tax lien of $4934.47. Or can you barter by blogging? I need to hear more about that!
ReplyDeleteElaine
I signed the petition to limit the amount of the high school renovation
ReplyDeleteHi Elaine W.!
ReplyDeleteYep, you were the one I had in mind. A lot of good that did us, right?
Good luck with your new blog!!
Elaine G.
omg,,, after looking at the blogger rooster for the magazine,, i think its time to move... there is no diversity in that crowd.. all a bunch of self important self proclaimed foodies...they really dont do anything but write articles and talk... im headin North to North Allegheny...
ReplyDeleteDoesn't seem to be a whole lotta bloggin' goin' on over att Lebo mag!
ReplyDeleteMorgans must be singin' the blues.
What are there, a total of 4 or 5 comments to date?