Me Media

For journalists, there are several associations and conferences you can turn to. The FOLIO: Show, run by Red7Media, is a great conference to attend as is the American Society of Business Publication Editors' annual conference. (full disclosure, I'm on the board of ASBPE).

I am reposting the list of free tools and websites I wrote about for ASBPE's Chicago chapter blog.

The session, "Inside the Ultimate E-media Toolbox" was presented by Evan Hansen, Editor-in-Chief, Wired.com; Joe Pulizzi, Founder and Chief Content Officer, Junta42, and Justin Reid, Online Technical Producer, Dwell.com.

1. Evan Hansen, Editor-in-Chief, Wired.com > User engagement tools
PollDaddy.com – polling software
Wikinvest.com - stockcharts
Springwidgets.com – create widgets, pull in feeds
Reddit.com – Social Networking news traffic
WikiScanner – find edits made to wikipedia.org
ZeeMaps.com – Improves Googlemaps, allows for notations and customization
Dipity.com – User Interface tool; data feeds; create timelines

2. Joe Pulizzi, Founder and Chief Content Officer, Junta42 From Junta42 "Junta42 is a search community site focused on content marketing and custom publishing solutions"
Consider Google Custom Search for finding and posting topical content
Pligg.com -- Per its site, Pligg "is an open source Content Management System (CMS) available to download for free"; it’s also a digg.com type site that can be integrated with custom search Technorati.com BoardReader.com TwitterSearch.com

3. Justin Reid, Online Technical Producer, Dwell.com
Feedburner.com is a free application to monitor site feed metrics
Twitter.com Tweetburner.com FriendFeed.com (FriendFeed helps you discover and discuss interesting stuff that your friends and family find on the web)

You can learn more about ASBPE at http://www.asbpe.org