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Welcome to the Digital Edge Blog! The Digital Edge Blog focuses on developments, trends, best practices and more in newspaper digital media. The blog launched in 2006 (archives before August 2008 are here). We look forward to reading your comments and contributions to the Digital Edge Blog. Questions? E-mail Beth Lawton at beth.lawton@naa.org.

Update - 5:18 p.m. ET: Lisa Rabasca, managing editor of PRESSTIME here at NAA, wrote a blog entry about the Crisis Summit report. Go to the PRESSTIME Now! blog to read about it.

A few things today:

Chuck Peters, CEO of Gazette Communications, live-blogged the American Press Institute's "Crisis Summit" yesterday using CoverItLive. I think that's great! And, it's an interesting read. Click here.

API is supposed to be coming out with a report later today about the summit. Check back with the Digital Edge blog this afternoon for information about the report.

The following things didn't make it into the Online Publishing Update this morning - it was already getting long. (What's the OPU?)

Twitter to Journalists: Here's How It's Done - Eat Sleep Publish rounded up a slew of ideas and guidelines on how journalists can (and should) use Twitter. Among them:
"Work out loud but keep it to a minimum."
"Be as open on your social networks as you'd want a source to be. People don't like one-way communication."
"Use social media as much as you can yourself so you can figure out good ways to mine them for sources and tips." 

Gannett Acquires Ripple 6 - Gannett will be incorporating even more social networking into its newspaper Web sites, Gannett reported. Ripple 6 is already powering Gannett's Moms Like Me sites. (PaidContent)

Yahoo! Launches Deals Site for Holiday Shopping - Yahoo!, recognizing that holiday gift-givers will be shopping online for the best deals, has launched a shopping site promising to find the best deals for them. Holiday shopping projections have been low thus far. Although people may spend less, online shopping might increase as people do more comparison shopping online. (Yodle Anecdotal)

OpenSocial: State of the Union - OpenSocial's anniversary was yesterday. OpenSocial, common API for social applications across multiple Web sites, includes Google, Yahoo!, Ning and others. The companies involved convened a press and developer event yesterday at MySpace. See one of the presentations given to attendees here. (TechCrunch)

* The OPU is a 3x/week newsletter that goes out to hundreds of digital media folks. It includes timely information - research, trends, news stories - that are of interest to digital media professionals, especially those who work with newspapers. You can see the archives from the OPU here. The OPU is a benefit of being a member of the NAA Digital Media Federation, a professional network. Join here.

What was in the OPU today? These stories and several others:

6 Competencies News Organizations Need (Media Management Center)

Consumers Opening Fewer E-mails (eMarketer)

Can Crowdfunding Save Journalism? (MediaShift)

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