Hi, all! I'm Allegra, I'm the new associate producer for Live from the Left Coast, and this is my first LFTLC blog entry! Wow!

I'm really excited to be working with this team; in the coming days, weeks, and months we hope to really get the ball rolling with a bunch more exciting content and a hearty infusion of new ways to interface with LFTLC.com. I've been amazed by the community surrounding this website; as a matter of fact, it's one of the things that drew me to sign on board. I love it when I see exploratory discourse and strong relationships building in an online forum or chatroom. To me, it's a sign of the breadth of the human capacity to cooperate, and that is a rare remedy for a chronic pessimism.

Making this community more user-friendly and more active is one of my main goals here. So, here's your chance to be heard: What would you like to see on LFTLC.com? More forum folders? Moderated chat rooms? Anything that would bring you greater satisfaction as part of the LFTLC community, I want to hear.