Topic Categories - An Idea

Aloha

I noticed that you can identify your topic when you do a blog post by putting a label in (see the box at the bottom right when you create a new post). So I suggest the possibility of the following (if you are interested):

I have created a topic area for the week of November 15 called "New President" where we can possibly have postings and comments about the politics of the "44th" president. This is under the "Label" - THE WORD.

So I have put this first one in THE WORD category, which I invite comments or other postings.

Label categories might include:

TRAVELS - Richins Travels (any of our amazing travels including explanations and photos)
EVENTS - Family Events (showing us what we are going to do or what has been happening in our/your families, for example Halloween or a B-day - explanations and photos)
THE WORD - This can be a discussion topic for the week...anyone can start one and it is OK to have more than one in any particular week (starting on Saturdays for the week...see the one I have put on for the week of Nov 15)
THOUGHTS - This about any thoughts you may have about anything (see the one Bill put on about wolves) 

NEWS - Exciting Richins family news (like a new job, or announcing that Belva and Carl are going to Denmark)
THE PLAN - Discussions on planning things/family events and get-togethers (planning aspects, for example planning Margaret Richin's 95th birthday this next year...if we want to)
MY ACTIVITIES - Individual activities and updates (for example, the recent note from Kelly on her new business - explanations and photos)
JUST JOKING - This is for funny jokes we know, hear or see (this is Kai Richins' idea so it should be fun!!)
Others (please suggest)

Another example, for Bill's trip to Finland, that would go under the "Label" of TRAVELS. This way we can click on TRAVELS and see all the exiting travels that we do or on other labels to see other activities and then they don't just get lost in the blog over time...If you want to - each of you can go back to some of the posts you have created and put the appropriate category label in under "Labels for this post" and it should show up under the category created...So Bill you might put your Finland trip under TRAVELS.

Now I am not suggesting we eliminate the normal way we do things, but it might be good to label things as we want to - so that we can go back to areas of relevance, read them and/or add comments to them...

I am not sure it this will work...but worth a try.

Cheers