Changes: Labels

Hi Everybody, I'm going to post a series of announcements about the way our family blog is different now. I'll make links to these announcements in the sidebar after I get a few of these written, so the posts will always be easy to find if you have questions. I might call them an FAQ (eventually.)

First change to notice when you're writing a blog post is there is a space at the bottom of the post to enter "Labels" for that post. This is one of the cool things about the new blogger. These labels will act as "categories" on our blog -- we'll have a list of these on the sidebar (eventually) and all you have to do to go to ALL posts in a certain category is click on one of those categories and boom! it brings up all those posts.

This is something I've been wanting to have on our blog for a long time. The ONLY PROBLEM with labels in a TEAM blog is that we could get carried away with too many labels and pretty soon the sidebar will have a mile-long list of categories. So for now I am going to make a rule (I get to -- I'm admin) that we stick to pre-determined categories. If you think of better category labels, or want to change them, please let me know by emailing me and I will try to shift things around. The goal is to have a manageable list of categories.

Here are some suggested categories: each person can use their first name. If you're a couple, use both first names like this:

• Pat
• Mark and Judy
• Maureen and Tim
• Peter and Roma
• Kathy and Jerry
• Margie and Al
• Tommy
• Moira and Brian
• Marybeth and Julian
• Tootsie and Johnny (or Hootsie and Hohnny)
• etc.

Grandkids, if you are going to be posting alot to the blog, let's try for now using your first names, too. Hoo boy! I can see the list is going to be long. This might not work. hmmmmm, well let's try it and if it gets too long we'll figure out something different.

• Gabe
• Mickey
• Brenda
• David and Amy
• Chris and Elena
• Steph
• Mel
  
• Josh
• Nicholas
• Ollie
• etc
  

Other Suggested Categories:

• Travel
• Recipes
• Photos
• Reunion
• Birthdays
• Celebrate
• Announcements
• Cool Stuff
• Homemade Stuff
• Crafts
  
• Artwork
• Gardening
• Building
• Fun
• Pets
• Videos
• Music
  
• Blogging (for tips and how-tos on blogging here)
• Alerts (stuff like this - techie bloggie announcement thingies)