Your Help Is Needed
Look what landed in my inbox, from Janet Edens.
It's beta meta, baby. We are looking for a few good bloggers to help with two projects under way at The Post and Courier/Charleston.net. The first one is mo' fun: A chance to post about Spoleto, Piccolo, the crowds, the lines, the celebrities, whatever is newsworthy and family appropriate on the SpoletoToday.com blog. We will be experimenting with covering the event via free programs such as Jott (posts by cell phone), Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and anything else we can think of. This is taking place outside the usual infrastructure, so we've got some opportunities to play around with content-to-Web tools. We'll be creating videos, podcasts and photo galleries along with our usual prose. Naturally, there will be little compensation for your efforts other than the sheer joy of working with me, Dan, Geoff and Mike. We are working on the possibility of tickets to events for our Spoleto Journalists, more affectionately known as SpoJos, but we mostly want people to be out and about experiencing the scene. We've already got some brave souls lined up from the P&C, but we need a few more foot soldiers. We will be using RSS feeds to aggregate content from several sites in hopes that SpoTo will be THE site for festival-goers. We'll link to your blog, too, if you're writing about the festivals. The second project is a beta site currently called "LocoReader.com," a local news aggregator a la Digg and Newsvine. We need some folks to visit the site, play around on it and give us some feedback. We would like to have a get-together with all who are interested in either project and, refreshingly, the first round is on us. So, when you respond to jedens@postandcourier.com as a victim — uh, I mean, volunteer — let us know if you’ll be available one afternoon or evening this week for a discussion. Positions are limited, so act now!
Heather @ May 5, 2008