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It was nice to see so many people interested in local link collaboration.

A few really good ideas came out of that call that hopefully we can talk more about.

One being the need to establish guidelines for what we in the Northwest News Group on Publish2 link to. (By the way, if you want to join in, just join Publish2, leave a comment with your name, and either I or Seth Long can add you.) I'll set up a forum on this site where we maybe hash those out.

Also, Michelle Nicolosi suggested some ki… Continue

Thanks everyone for collaborating on Northwest swine flu news. For anyone else who wants to join in, use the following tags/hashtags:

For Publish2 swineflu

For Twitter, #waflu

Our districts are starting their discussions on budget cuts, as I assume most in Washington are or will be as soon as the Legislature finishes up its budget. We had a recent talk with Randy Dorn who suggested teacher layoffs may range between 1,500 - 3,000 in the state. Schools must give teacher layoff notices by May 15.

I think this would be a great time to contextualize these budget cut and school layoff stories by giving our readers a statewide view of the cuts.

I've started to put some sch… Continue

I hope this to be a place where journalists of all types can come to talk about the kinds of stories, online projects or whatever, that would benefit from the ideas and resources of multiple journalists.

As those in traditional media organizations (like me) watch our resources dwindle, it seems that sharing our resources and knowledge would be a good way to support some of the great project journalism that we fear may suffer the consequences of the newspaper industry's downturn.

I also see thi… Continue