Former Staff Member's blog

Here are two great ways to start learning about social media, examining your organization's online presence and improving the way you work digitally.

1. We Are Media Project - from NTEN and Beth Kanter

I have talked about blogging and micro-blogging before, but what about blogging without a blog?

Posterous is a new tool that let's you do just that! All you need is email, and I'd put money on the fact that you all have email already! All you need to do is send an email to post [at] posterous [dot] com and you've just posted to your blog!

You don't need to be a reporter to be out covering a hot story live. CoverItLive is a new blogging tool that lets you do real live blogging. It works inside your current blog or website and lets readers follow along with you, play by play.

But, does live coverage seem like something you wouldn't actually use? Think about these options:

Have you heard people in your office or friends talking about "open source software" and not know what they meant? Well, there are a couple opportunities to learn!

The roundtable proved to be a rich and extremely informative process for those of us attending from MMT, but it also appeared to serve as an opportunity for all the vested parties in Clark County to consider additional ways in which their services/projects overlap.