Friday, July 3, 2009

Rockford's upcoming pseudo 'daily news media

As webmasters, Josh Grandinetti and Andy Coumont, develop Rockford's town website they incorporated links so that posts on this Horizons blog will also feed to the website. When the blog is updated it instantly relays the news to the website through what is called an rss feed, a file that keeps all of the news stories organized in a way that browsers and other websites can read. Anyone can post comments to posts here.

The blog also makes it easy for Rockford residents to inform people about what's happening in Rockford.

By partnering with their Horizons team member neighbors, residents can easily have their news items posted. Simply provide the news to members, Mona Vanek (291-3609, mtscribbler@air-pipe.com), Vivian Plank, (892-4412) or Micki Harnois.

Make logging into the block a daily event to keep abreast of community activities. Communication has a positive impact of poverty reduction.

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