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September 11, 2009

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September 10, 2009

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September 10, 2009

Gina Germani is now a member of RJI News Collaboratory

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August 23, 2009

Profile Information

What kind of org do you work for?

news organization

What do you do?

journalist, educator

What strengths/expertise do you have to offer?

More than 25 years of news experience in both print and broadcast news; sound journalism principles (that have to/should be integrated into the new media); putting my money where my mouth is by working on and investing in a news start-up.

Blog URL?

http://ivnews.info/category/blogs/the-consumer-corner

Twitter ID?

http://twitter.com/gmgermani

What kind of help/insight do you hope to get from this community?

I need fast help on how to sell the site's advertising real estate--LOCALLY. AdSense is nice, but it's not local, nor does it pay the bills. Or, how to drum up private funding, i.e. biz angels, to kick this endeavor into full gear. I believe in what I've started, but I'm at a loss as to how I can bring in even maintenance dollars. Help, please?!

I think we should use the RJI Collaboratory incubator to develop:

Building blocks for geographic- or topic-based local Web news sites, Business assessment tools for local Web news sites, Backgrounder on web advertising, Clearinghouse of experts to help launch new services

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At 8:14pm on September 10, 2009, RJI Collaboratory said…: Gina, a belated welcome to the Collaboratory! We were really interested in getting feedback to you about your project, so we've posted about it in our weekly What's New blog that's broadcast out to all 400 members. Check it out here.

Meanwhile, to make it easier to get around the network, we've got a "How We're Using This Site" page that provides more detail on the different areas of the Collaboratory and the ways to make best use of them to not only share ideas, but to get projects up and running: http://rjicollab.ning.com/page/how-were-using-this-site.

And you can keep track of latest activities on the network by visiting the What's New page: http://rjicollab.ning.com/page/whats-new.

Anyway, poke around a bit and if you don't see the conversation you want to have or the project you think matters, feel free to start it.

Thanks for joining us! Adam Glenn on behalf of the RJI Collaboratory