The Grand Island Independent, a small paper in Nebraska, has been on Twitter for almost a year. In the last month, @theindependent has more than doubled its number of followers. Web editor Stephanie Romanski tells how: I turned off The Independent’s Twitterfeed on Sept. 17th on the advice of @robquig. Instead I have been tweeting [...]

The Grand Island Independent found a clever way to use CoverItLive, a Flash-based liveblogging tool. They’re chatting with folks about the redesign of their Web site. It’s a genius use of the tool. The conversations are public (That whole transparency thing that we love, right?) and, as Grand Island learned, allowed them to immediately fix [...]