We are running Focus sections every Friday through February to update you on some news stories we covered over the duration of 2008.
Sections include LCCC, Community, Development, Real Estate, Health and many more.
These can also now be found online.
Focus 2009 can be found under the News tab on thetelegraph.com’s home page. New sections will be posted weekly.
CLICK HERE: http://www.thetelegraph.com/sections/focus-2009/
If you aspire to be a newspaper columnist, here is your chance. The Telegraph is seeking 12 people to serve as Sunday guest columnists.
Each columnist would be required to write four columns — one every 12 weeks (your entry would serve as your first column). Sorry, no pay is involved.
The subject matter can be anything you want — be creative! Avoid overdone and heavy topics. Judges look for light, funny and easy-to-read pieces.
Columns should be between 800 and 850 words.
Columnists who wrote in previous years are welcome to enter, but new writers may be given preference depending on the number of entries received.
Entries will only be accepted by e-mail and chosen winners must agree to submit all subsequent columns by
e-mail. Send them to missywuellner@hotmail.com with the subject line “columnist competition.”
Attach them as a Microsoft Word document or paste into the body of the e-mail. Questions can be sent to the same address.
Include the following information in your e-mail:
-Name
-Town
-Phone number(s)
-Age
-Tell us a little more about yourself. Include occupation, special interests, hobbies, etc. This information may be used in the tagline for your columns if you’re chosen.
(See this week’s columnist’s bio for example)
Get your column ready — deadline is 5 p.m. on Friday, March 13.
Winners will be contacted by e-mail a few days after the deadline and will be asked to submit a photo of themselves.
The new columnist lineup will be announced in the Sunday, March 22, edition.
To get to TheTelegraph.com’s restaurant search functions, just visit our home page. If you scroll about halfway down, you’ll find this calendar along the right hand side of your screen.
Click on “dining.”
There, you’ll find a page where you can browse area restaurants by type or price, or you can use the search functions to find something more specific.
Each restaurant listing includes an address, a map and contact information for the establishment. You can also find ratings or read user reviews and even submit your own!
http://www.thetelegraph.com/sections/tibor-machan/
An introduction to Tibor -
Tibor Machan is an adviser to Freedom Communications on libertarian issues. He was smuggled out of Hungary in 1953 at age 14. He moved to the United States in 1956. He is a professor at the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University, where he holds the R.C. Hoiles Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise. He is also a Hoover Institution research fellow. He’s written numerous essays and books on libertarianism.
“My role at Freedom is to advise, discuss, debate, explore and otherwise consider the basis and implications of the libertarian position in politics.”
Now at thetelegraph.com, readers can keep up with the latest in Libertarian issues through Freedom’s adviser, Machan himself.
The Telegraph online’s Tibor page has columns, related links, video and more, and it can be easily found by navigating to the “Eye on Libertarianism” under “Opinions.”
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When reporting abuse, remember that obscenity, vulgarity and possible libel are good reasons for reporting a comment. Simply disagreeing with a comment is a bad reason to report it.
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Web searches at thetelegraph.com have improved!
Search functions on the Web site are now much more inclusive than before. Using the search function, you can find stories AND videos as well as blog posts. If stories have photos, those photos appear in the search results as well.
You can now see more easily which stories have been updated the most recently at thetelegraph.com. Just look for the time stamps below the story or headline right there on the home page. It’s now in red and much easier to see.
We want to put them online.
Whether taken a year ago or 10, holiday memories are unforgettable - from that kiss under the mistletoe to your children’s expressions upon opening that gift they’ve waited all year for.
Won’t you share your memories?
The Telegraph is asking for video footage from your Christmases, Hanukkahs or Kwaanzas of the past to feature on our Web site this holiday season. We will convert short clips (about two minutes long) from your submitted holiday footage and post them online for all the community to see.
We will be taking home video submissions on DVD and VHS from now through noon on Friday, Dec. 19. Don’t wait! Send them now 
Videos can be picked up after the holiday.
Please label all videos with your name, telephone number, e-mail address (if you have one) and mailing address and send them (or drop them off) care of:
Christmas Video Memories
The Telegraph
111 E. Broadway
Alton, IL 62002
If you need more information, contact me at (618) 463-2556 or e-mail laura_griffith@thetelegraph.com.
Thanks, and have a happy holiday.
The Telegraph has recently made some changes to the way pages are organized under the blue navigation bar on the home page at thetelegraph.com.
These changes were made to clean up the site - get rid of pages linked to dead content, move pages that may have been miscategorized to new categories that make more sense, etc. - and to make it overall easier to get around.
Here are some specific changes to note:
*The blogs drop-down menu no longer exists. Instead, you can access the blogs through a number of different areas on the site.
The most recently updated staff blogs are still listed on the homepage if you scroll down under the local photo galleries area, where they have been for quite a while.
You can also find a list of Telegraph staff blogs under “Opinions,” as our blogs really are our thoughts and opinions. The double arrow next to “Telegraph staff blogs” means that a mini-menu will drop down if you put your mouse over those words.
Additionally, blogs related to news have been linked under the “News” pulldown, entertainment and feature blogs have been linked under “Entertainment”, sports under “Sports,” etc.
*There is a new blog link in town. Under “Opinions,” you’ll notice a link to User Blogs, which is a new way to access the latest blog posts made by Pluck users, or members of the community just like yourself. Even though these blogs have been there in the past, we have not linked them in the navigation bar until now.
*Under Sports, “Telegraph Varsity” is the high school sports page we linked to before. It’s just been renamed to reflect the name that the page has always had.
*The Features drop-down is now “Entertainment” and we’ve moved some things around. Here, you can now find links to TV and movie listings, some of the sections you’d find in Accent and even our Web shows - Around the Bend and Fab Femmes. Some of the items that used to be under “Features” like health are currently located under “News.”
*The Community drop down now gives you access to all sorts of reader content. That content includes blogs, user submitted photos and videos, etc. These items were located elsewhere on the site, and they still are, but we thought a few more links to that content might make it easier for readers to find. You’ll also notice that this pulldown still includes items like anniversaries, weddings and engagements, etc., as it did before.
*Forums are now linked under “Opinions” as well as inside the Publish Your Stuff box on the home page.
*The Events Calendar has also been added under “Community” as well as on the home page.
If you have any questions, please address them here or e-mail telegraphweb@gmail.com and happy exploring!
Watch our site for up-to-the-minute election results Tuesday
Telegraph Staff
Your source for the latest River Bend news is gearing up to be your home for up-to-the-minute polling results this Election Day.
Just before the polls open and throughout the day, thetelegraph.com will feature an AP interactive map packed with results and figures that will rival those available on major networks such as CNN and Fox.
By clicking to view the map, users will have access to the constantly updating popular and electoral vote count as Barack Obama and John McCain approach the finish line of who will become the next president of the United States.
The map will also include polling data for Senate and House races across the country, as well as governors’ races and voter initiatives.
To view the races more closely in one’s home area, users can roll their computer mice over specific states and even zoom in on those states to view results by county.
There is no need to refresh, as the map will update itself.
Election stories, links, multimedia updated throughout the day
Also, look for local and national stories updated throughout the day at thetelegraph.com, as well as helpful local and national election-related links.
Some of those links will include local county election Web sites as well as pre-recorded and live streaming election video.
Get involved, share opinions on the Election
Join a discussion of the 2008 Election online at thetelegraph.com forums, going on all day Tuesday.
To participate, users must have a valid Pluck I.D., which is the same username that allows them to post comments to stories on the site. Simply sign in and then click “forums” under “Publish Your Stuff.” All political discussion will take place in the Politics and Elections section.
Our moderator will have set up a “sticky” “Election Day 2008” topic, which will remain at the top of the topic list throughout the day. Users may begin new topics of discussion, but please make sure comments don’t belong under other topics before posting a new one. Our moderator will close duplicate discussions if need be and refer users to relevant ones.
Our moderator will pop in throughout the day and night to monitor, close and start new topics, so please remember to be civil in your discussion.
Take the discussion to a new level on Twitter
Readers who are already Twitter users can participate in an ongoing discussion up to and through Election Day by visiting http://election.twitter.com (after signing in at twitter.com, of course).
To participate, users simply update their 140-character-or-less status right there on the election page, and they’ll see their comments streaming below with those of other users.
For those who are not yet signed up for Twitter, registration is free at http://twitter.com, and it’s easy to get started. The home page will include instructions if needed.
Back on the Election 2008 Twitter Web page, users’ updates are automatically filtered for “hot election topic” keywords, such as “Ohio,” “Change We Need,” “Nobama” and “SNL,” which users can see listed at the top of the page.
To read about these hot topics in specific, users can click each keyword and view all updates mentioning that keyword on a separate page.
The fun has already begun at Twitter, so visit the site to get started and get familiar before Election Day.
Users that are not already followers of The Telegraph on Twitter can visit http://twitter.com/altontelegraph and choose to follow us for news updates on a regular basis.
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