A New Adventure Begins!
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An update on the migration of our LVUG community posts, comments and recordings or images to Blogger.
1. I have exported the Google+ community - there are 1,080 posts and over 5,000 comments.
2. I used both the service provided by Google and another service (just to be on the safe side).
3. I set up a blog - lvugcommunity.blogger.com (you are here!) and started importing the export (yes it is an interesting process!).
4. Blog post titles are slightly wonky or nonexistent and so I have been going through and doing a bit of cleanup.
5. Noticed that not all of the comments were coming through and checked it against some posts in the LVUG community, also asked the question of Google+ Exporter - of course they had a "newer & better" update (never do your homework early!). That did the trick - a few more posts but lots more comments in the latest export! So had to delete earlier import, and start again - glad I had not gotten very far.
6. If someone already shut down their Google+ account (as a few people have) their comments are gone and will not make it over.
7. So there may be some posts that don't have all their comments but I still think with so many posts and comments it is still a good idea to migrate.
8. Good news is it seems all images, links, and YouTube videos show up correctly.
9. What were topics in Google+ are now tags in Blogger and as I read through the posts, I am adding a few more tags - hoping anything you might search for will be even easier to find.
9. What were topics in Google+ are now tags in Blogger and as I read through the posts, I am adding a few more tags - hoping anything you might search for will be even easier to find.
10. I plan to continue with the clean up and should have all done within the next two weeks.
11. In the meantime I will post the most current so we can check out this new blog - getting 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016 up today and then working on 2015, 2014, and 2013 over the next two weeks so we have our complete history up by mid-April.
12. The blog will be a work in progress because right now all imported posts have the name of the person who asked the question (great!) however, in future we will need to consider how questions get asked so that we can start the conversation in a blog post and solicit comments/answers.
13. A baker's dozen of explanation here - Shannon Thomas and a few others should have author status because they are co-moderators with me. We will set that up once everything has been successfully imported. In the meantime, I have added a page here for you to post your Legacy related questions - just add your question in the comment section and we will include them as posts. Let's see how that works for the month of April and then decide how to proceed - certainly open to any ideas you may have.
It has been a real trip down memory lane to go through each of these blog posts - really appreciate how our members help each other, ask great questions, or suggest tips once you learn something. Also enjoy seeing how much we have grown in our understanding and use of #LegacyFamilyTree software (there have been a few versions since we got started in 2013). Whether you use this migrated blog as a reference of all the collected posts from our LVUG community or you continue to engage - let's keep learning and sharing about #LegacyFamilyTree.
12. The blog will be a work in progress because right now all imported posts have the name of the person who asked the question (great!) however, in future we will need to consider how questions get asked so that we can start the conversation in a blog post and solicit comments/answers.
13. A baker's dozen of explanation here - Shannon Thomas and a few others should have author status because they are co-moderators with me. We will set that up once everything has been successfully imported. In the meantime, I have added a page here for you to post your Legacy related questions - just add your question in the comment section and we will include them as posts. Let's see how that works for the month of April and then decide how to proceed - certainly open to any ideas you may have.
It has been a real trip down memory lane to go through each of these blog posts - really appreciate how our members help each other, ask great questions, or suggest tips once you learn something. Also enjoy seeing how much we have grown in our understanding and use of #LegacyFamilyTree software (there have been a few versions since we got started in 2013). Whether you use this migrated blog as a reference of all the collected posts from our LVUG community or you continue to engage - let's keep learning and sharing about #LegacyFamilyTree.
Thanks
Tessa
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