Coming Sunday: Hometown Hubs: Summerfield
Our launch of Hometown Hubs: Summerfield, our first community-based online site for reader-contributed news, is still on schedule for this Sunday.
The project will include both a section on our Web site, with content added as readers submit it, and a weekly portion of each Sunday's local-news section in the print edition, with selected content from the Web site.
On Monday evening, community editor Betsi Robinson, staff writer Tom Steadman and I had a good meeting with more than a dozen people in Summerfield who are interested in contributing to the hub. Yesterday afternoon, I met with our tech folks -- Charlie Stafford, Stephen Paschall and Kevin Lockamy -- who will be making the Web end of things happen, and we appear to be good to go.
Once the Summerfield hub is up and running, we'll be establishing Hometown Hubs for other communities. You also can post your news to our Web site anytime at YourNews.
You'll be able to find Hometown Hubs: Summerfield at http://www.news-record.com/hometowns/summerfield
(The link isn't live yet or I'd have hot-linked it.)