Hi friends,

I received lots of great feedback from many of you that I had a chance to speak with at the Stinner Summit recently.

Lots of projects and groups were interested in havign access to geographic mapping online.  It turns out that there is already a resource available that offers quite a bit of publicly-available data.

That tool is Ohio Market Maker

(also linked to under useful links above)

Today I read this amazing article:

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/the_google_way.php

I just established a new group here:

http://socialsynergyweb.org/oardc/local-food-systems-computer-modeling-g...

This is a meta group to explore, discuss, post blog posts, ideas, and resources about technology applications, best practices, and resources for Computer Simulation, GIS and Datamining of local food systems.

A friend of mine, Michel Bauwens from http://p2pfoundation.net recently sent me this link in an email:

http://research.cibcwm.com /economic_public/download /feature1.pdf

Along with the question: "Are higher transportation costs reversing globalization?"

My own answer:

Up at the top of this site, you'll see a link titled "News Aggreagator".

This leads to a page that contains excerpts and links from several sites, blogs and other sources on the web, under catagories like "Agriculture, Food Policy, Food Systems", etc

When creating blog posts on the site, you can post images "inline" (in your blog post).

How to do it:

Step number one is to click on the "insert/edit image" button on the editor:

Now, you can either paste in the website address ("URL") of the image, if it is on another page, or you can upload and insert the image.

To paste in a url, just enter it in next to "Image URL" space illustrated below.

Hello fellow Ohio Local Food Systems Collaborators!

Here are a few more useful tips for using the blog functions

Posting to a group:

You'll the title of the group in big letters over on the left hand side and a list of options under it, starting with:

Your broadcast email looked good. Now trying out blog post...

We're merging this group with Expanding meat processing capabilities to meet the needs of consumers, processors, and diverse cultural preferences

Everyone subscribed to this group is now Subscribed that one. The post to this group has been moved there, and this group will be deleted.

Please let u sknow if you have any questions. Thanks!

Welcome folks!

My name is Sam Rose. I am the administrator of this site, please feel free to contact me if you run into issues.

You've been entered into the site, and you can enter some info about yourself and your organization: