By JACK BRIMEYER
Membership and Nominating Committee Chairman
A new piece of blogger software added to the iapea.org web site should yield fresher content and more interaction with the 80-plus Illinois newspapers and their news staffs who rely on The Associated Press. Basically, it removes the “Bottleneck Known as Brimeyer” who fell behind in updating content.
The web site of the Illinois Associated Press Editors Association is believed to be the only one of its kind operated by a state AP members’ group.
This blogging content will appear through a so-called “frame” on the site’s home page. It was set up by Jeff Kepler, Editorial Systems Manager at the Journal Star in Peoria.
All 12 members of the IAPEA executive board, along with two Chicago AP staff members, will be able to post information. We expect that to be along the lines of seminar plans, contest changes, AP bureau staff changes, board reports, conference schedules and such.
Also, site visitors will be able to post comments on those blog entries. Those comments, however, will need pre-approval before posting by either Brimeyer or IAPEA president Gary Sawyer of Decatur. This is because sophisticated spammers can otherwise flood blogs and render them useless.
Also, the site now has a more prominent “Contact Us” link so that visitors can offers ideas and pose questions to the entire board.
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