Really thinking outside the box in terms of personnel structure

Here's a radical idea stemming from a conversation with Bryan Murley, Assistant Professor of New and Emerging Media at Eastern Illinois University: "I had a student tell me recently his idea was a reversal of hierarchy: Have the older journos serve as interns and let the twentysomethings run the show and attract younger readers."

And while we're thinking outside the box, let's picture other scenarios: two-person teams on each beat...one to cover it as a mainstream journalist would and one make it enaging on the Web. A team that shares info and teaches each other...

What ground-breaking ideas do you have? Let us know!

Adding functionality to your Web site

So, someone's on your Web site and they see this awesome article and they want to share it. Do you offer some sort of "email this" feature?

Here's a tool for anyone that wants to add functionality to their Web site, but does not have the technical background to do so. Many of the newer content managment systems for the Web offer this is some sort of format, but if you handle your own Web site design, here's something to keep in mind: People get on the internet to be social. Hence the explosion of social networking applications.

	So, help them be social. Add This can help. Roll your mouse over the button to the right...see what happens.
Add This is a little button that can help your story reach a lot of people by allowing readers to email the article or post it to their social network or bookmarking site with one click. And it's fully customizeable. AND IT'S FREE!
Try it. Tell me what you think.