Some tips on viewing blog and website

Here are some tips on viewing our blog and web site:

About the blog:
Blog items are posted by date and time so the newest item is always on top.

The Search Feature: That little box in the upper left corner of this blog is one of the most overlooked but helpful features of the blog. Use it like you would use Google or Yahoo search engines to find items on our blog. Just type in a phrase and press enter

Links: You will notice a section on the left side of the blog called Links. Our current links are:
Google News which just takes you to the regular Google News.
E-Mail List is a link to email address of those BJ types who have asked to be listed.
Retirees Addresses is a link to an old list of retiree postal addresses. The BJ no longer provides a list like it used to in Christmas employee publications. We have to rely on viewers to add new retirees, changes of address and deaths. Please help if you can.
Retirees Website is a link to our website. More on that below.

Archives: Only the last 30 posts are shown on the blog. Older posts are archived by the month. You can click on any month to see the posts for that month.

Click on headline: If you see the phrase "Click on the headline" or an underlined phrase in color , you can click on the headline or the underlined type to go to a new web location. It could be either an album of photos or another website where you can get more information. Often we provide a brief synopsis of a larger story from a newspaper, magazine or website. This will take you to the original source item.

Pictures: Often if you click on a photo or graphic element it will enlarge to give you a better view. If you want to copy one of the photos and save the jpeg file to your computer, just right click on the photo and save as a file to your computer.

Copy and Paste: There may be times you will want to print an article from the blog. Do not try to print the blog which is many pages long. You can copy an article from the blog and paste it to your word processing program to print. To save an article, you first select or highlight the text you want. Click at the beginning of the text, holding the mouse button down and dragging it to the end of the text. Releasiing the mouse button highlights the text. You then copy the selected text to your clipboard by pressing CTRL + C or click EDIT and then COPY. Go to your word processor and on an open page press CTRL + V or click EDIT and then PASTE. You now can save the text to your wordprocessor file to keep or print.

Contributors: This is just a list of blog contributors: Ott Gangl, Ken Krause, John Olesky and Harry Liggett.

About our website:
The BJ Reitirees website works in tandem with the BJ Retirees blog to allow longer items than we want to use on the blog.

The main or index page of the web site has a simple menu:
Blog Wall of Honor is a page on veteran employes who left during the takeover of Knight Ridder.
Commentary is our editorial page which contains opinion stuff by us or others. Send us yours.
Blog Corner tells how the blog started and lists statistics on the number of viewere and posts.
Random Observations are short items usually opionated.
Short Takes and other stuff is a page of briefs..
Addresses of Retirees is the best list we have on postal addresses of retirees. The BJ in former years published a list of retiree addresses in the emplioyee publications Sidebar or Tower Topics mailed to retired and cujrrent employees. Printing and postage costs made this too expensive. The staff does not have time even to provide us with an up-to-date list. We try to make address changes, add new retirees and delete names of the deceased, but we have to depend on viewers. The list is becoming woefully outdated. Check it if you can and provide updates if you can.
Some BJ phone numbers The BJ in July 2008 put up a list of phone numbers and email addresses for the news staff on Ohio.com. To make that easier to find, we have placed a copy on our website to replace an earlier list of our own.
Go to Beacon Ournal online is just a link you can hit to go to Ohio.com
Go to BJ Retirees Blog is another link that takes you from the website to the blog.
News Index is a link to the Project on Excellence in Journalsim which reports weekly on the news getting the most play.
Reader tips is a copy of these tips

Below the menu bar is a list of items of interest. Just click on the itme. We encourage viewers to email items they would like to post in various sections.

You can find a copy of these reader tips on the website.