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May 13 - 15 Oklahoma City, OK
June 10 - 12 Columbia, SC
June 24 - 26 Lexington, KY
July 15 - 17 Atlanta, GA
August 26 - 28 Richmond, VA
September 16-18 Knoxville, TN
October 7 - 9 Birmingham, AL
October 28 - 30 Charleston, WV

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This from The Ottumwa, Iowa, Courier:

The Ottumwa Courier is using Twitter to both bring attention to breaking news and less critical updates through the day. Most days average three to five tweets, but major stories use more.
The Courier also moved into using Twitter to update readers during an editorial board meeting with Alliant Energy about the company's planned rate hikes ...

Let us know how you are drawing readers' attention to your Web site's new interactive calendar. Stories? columns? Tweets? Random calls? Sidewalk chalk?
How are readers responding?
How are you utilizing the space that once housed the old calendar?
Feel free to share. You can e-mail me at jbbittner@cnhi.com or simply post your comments.
Chris Muldrow asked his Webinar group Thursday to submit their questions as trouble tickets so they can be tracked and addressed for us all.

Dave Woods of The Joplin Globe in Joplin, Mo., adds a new position to his title: head Twitterer.
The Globe now serves readers with daily Twitter feeds of news and headlines.
"We will send out business news updates each weekday morning at 9, local and breaking news throughout the day and our end of day headline tease at 4:30," Woods said. "Sports, blogs and feature content will be posted daily. We will start promoting the site next week.'

Trying to track federal subsidies? Subsidyscope.com is a good resource as you localize federal bailout stories, as Bill Allison pointed out in the recent APME-Sunlight Foundation TARP Webinar.
Also bookmark fdic.gov to track information on the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program designed to get banks to resume lending.