Migrating our Google+ community to Blogger
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As most of you know, Google+ is shutting down effective April 2nd. Google+ was a great place for communities to share knowledge, ask questions, learn how to use software and technology, and just share interests - no matter the topic. A few of us got together and started the Legacy Virtual Users Group site in 2012 and then migrated over to a Google+ community in 2013. We have 1,200 members in our community. Now that Google+ is closing its doors, many of our members asked what would happen to our community - would we ride out into the sunset or migrate to another platform AND is another platform even necessary in 2019?
I asked the question back in February so we could decide what to do. How do our members stay up-to-date with the Legacy software? Our members responded as follows:
- the vast majority of our members use our LVUG community, Legacy News, and the Legacy sponsored Facebook group;
- a smaller set of members use our LVUG community and Legacy News; and
- a smaller set of members use our LVUG community and the Legacy Facebook group.
Please watch this space (currently under construction) and make a note to check back in on April 15th when we should be up and running with our LVUG Community blog. I have exported everything from the Google+ community and Shannon Thomas and I will work through setting up this blog. All of the posts should be archived and available to search AND we will be able to ask questions and share our knowledge with each other.
In the meantime, thanks to all of you who joined in at the LVUG community - we had a great run and I hope that our independent community helped you get the most out of your genealogy software of choice, Legacy Family Tree. I hope to see you back here in April. I think I'm going to need lots of coffee!
Until then, all the best
Tessa
Tessa
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