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How to Use YouTube, Twitter, Slideshare and Street Boxesnew

Recent posts on AAN's web publishing best practices blog include tips on automatically feeding paper content to Twitter, finding 2.0 trends from top conferences on Slideshare.net, and setting up an easy RSS aggregator to troll for story ideas. Seven Days online editor Cathy Resmer makes her AAN-blogging debut, contributing a post on finding and using local content on YouTube, sharing stories found online that made their way into the paper. In addition, a detailed overview of NOW's recent Box Design Challenge is featured, along with tips on Managing Your Digital Professional Identity.
AAN Staff  |  07-12-2007  2:18 pm  |  Association News

Eugene Weekly Holds Jingle Contest

The alt-weekly put out a call for local musicians to create 30-second jingles, and plenty responded. There are now 26 jingles in the running for the possibility of being featured in local radio ads for the Weekly. Readers are currently listening to and voting on the best jingles online, and the winner of the reader's poll will also receive a $500 prize. "We will probably cut the [radio] spot with an all-star band in different genres," says Bill Shreve, the Weekly's director of Marketing and Advertising. He adds: "We've gotten a pretty good buzz off this thing."
AAN News  |  07-03-2007  3:08 pm  |  Industry News

Shepherd Express Taps Citizen Media Vet to Launch Community Sites

Shepherd Express, Milwaukee's weekly newspaper and website, announced the appointment of Andy Vogel as Vice President of Advertising and Online Products. (FULL STORY)
Shepherd Express Press Release  |  07-02-2007  8:41 am  |  Press Releases

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