Getting Organized

"Money money money mah-nay... MAH-nay!"

Have no clue who sings this song, but it's been running through my brain as I'm sitting here, staring at my old-school iBook G4 laptop, trying to think of what to post. I'll start with this past Thursday's Missourian meeting...

Basically, it seems like the economy beat reporters there are being proactive in creating meaningful content to add to their site and ours. This is awesome. The three stories they're working on this week are:

1. What to do if you lose your job
2. How to market yourself to get a job
3. How to recover in this economy

Also, I learned they're going to create a section in the paper and/or online called "Progress," which will be devoted to showing how Columbia will keep moving forward in this economic downturn. It will also help better illustrate the community's initiatives to bring money and people into Columbia. As far as I know, this will be coming out towards the end of March. So, as for the Missourian meeting, that's about it.

During my Thursday shift at KOMU, Liz and I focused on searching previous weeks' content in ACM to categorize stories under the "8 On Your Money" label. This was definitely a step forward as we now have more content to work from on moneycommons.com. Along with this, two examples of stories I helped edit and publish to the website were Paula Smith's on Columbia Regional Airport and Takeo's piece on Columbia Public Schools, which both aired on the 10.

I'll post another update on moneycommons.com progress sometime in the next few days...looking forward to begin working on the promotional side of things soon though!