CoTweet is a must-have for television and radio stations nationwide. It's a simple and easy tool used to Tweet breaking news to your viewers in the fastest format. Part of working the desk means you're responsible for keeping up with the station's CoTweet account. As reporters, we are constantly Tweeting the newest details of our stories to the assignment desk. They, in turn ReTweet the information to all of our followers. It's a great way to report the news and get feedback in the quickest manner. It also provides information about the person reporting the news- and even more recently- gives the location to where the Tweet was made. 

During the time that I worked the web at KOMU, I wrote and posted stories, photos and videos to the web. When I took on a shift at the station, it's was my goal to have an entire show's content (online story, video, links and numbers along with pictures and tweets) up on the web in less than 30 minutes. Today, it's even more imperative to get the print story online before the newscasts even airs, no matter how much or how little information you may have.

I love creating behind the scenes montages of my work. The most recent is a collage of video segments I posted to our KHQA Facebook page during our Winter Storm 2011 coverage. It was a record breaking snowfall that even kept us snowed in at the station. We had to work twice as hard to look half as good as a normal day. Our viewers loved it. Check these out!