Bemidji Community Journalist Club - Meeting Thursday!!

  The Bemidji Area Community Journalism  Club is  meeting at 5:00 PM. THIS THURSDAY, October 9, 2008 at the Cabin Coffee House.

 

The Journalism Club will discuss a new grant received by KAXE  from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that will make it possible to hire an editor for the news to be published on Northern Community Internet (www.bemidjicommunityinternet.org) site and to pay writers for contributions to several series on specific topics.

 

At our meeting on Thursday, we'll get a full up-date on the project and begin planning to implement this new project component. Things are coming together.  Will we see YOU Thursday at the Cabin?

Local Web Site Changes Name

The Northern Community Radio community internet project web site name and domain has been changed from mnStringer.net to http://www.northerncommunityinternet.org/. Currently the web site is under development with new services being added as they are developed. Some local content is already available for six local communities, Brainerd, Bemidji, Grand Rapids, Hibbing, Leech Lake/Cass Lake and Virginia. This includes a local Google search, free classified advertising, a “blog roll” of the most recent storied from local blogs and a news service of local news stories.

The Bemidji site can be reached directly at bemidjicommunityinternet.org

The first stable version of the local web sites is scheduled to roll out in January. Until then the site is being updated with new features as they become available. One of the project's goals is to aggregate all local internet content in one place and provide a way for local internet content producers to attract a shared audience. The site currently allows local residents to identify local web sites to include in the local search, add local blogs to the blog roll, post a link to a local news story and place and respond to classified ads.

Northern Community Internet is a project of Northern Community Radio (91.7 KAXE).