Legacy LVUG Community

Photo by Renee Fisher on Unsplash Well Google meant it when they said they were shutting down Google+ effective today, April 2nd. Over the past week I have been exporting and migrating our community (read the past week's posts to learn more about it and this new blog). However, I was still surprised to click on the Google+ community this morning and simply see our logo and the categories remaining on the site  - Google is quickly emptying the tables, washing the dishes, throwing out the posts, sweeping the floors, and turning out the lights. If you signed into services with your Google+ account and "plused" things on various social media sites, those pluses are gone and your avatar is now a small gray head. If you owned or moderated any Google+ communities, I hope you took the time to export your data - posts, images, and videos. If not, they are gone with the wind. But do take a deep breath and relax. We are saying goodbye to Google+, which Google simply s...

Spent the better part of the weekend getting our LVUG community migrated to Blogger. When you haven't done something in a while (my poor neglected personal blogs), there is a bit of a learning curve. But with the example set by Russ Worthington (thanks Russ!) and just a bit of playing around with themes, layouts, and gadgets - I think we are up and running. I decided to work from most current posts backward - so what you see right now is 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016. That is 158 posts published and only 924 posts to go! The remaining gems (924 posts) left to publish! Photo by Annie Spratt at Unsplash Here is a road map of sorts to help find you way here at the blog (so far ...) I have not added a subscription or follow by email gadget yet because I believe if you sign up, it will notify you of each new post (I still have 924 posts to add - I wouldn't do that to my worst enemy as I just went through spring cleaning my Gmail inbox). the search capability is at the t...