In the span of two years, we at JEA Northern California have gone from mailing weighty manila envelopes filled with awkwardly shaped tearsheets and expensive return envelopes to our annual mail-in contest judges, to a process that is entirely digital -- no postage, no packages and storage, no lost entries.

NSPA announced their annual Online Pacemakers yesterday in Portland, Oregon at the 2010 JEA/NSPA Spring Convention. Online Pacemaker winners, Digital Yearbook Pacemaker winners and Online Best of Show winners have been released. Congratulations to all!

You post news to your site, and then what? You just wait for people to find it? No, you need to let others know it's there. For many professional publications, the work does not end when the story is posted. Chris Snider of the Des Moines Register and chrissniderdesign.com blogged about what the Register does once they have breaking news to post.

Online papers that want to “shovel” content (text and images) to their news sites can gain access to student writing by emailing Ron Johnson, Indiana University Student Media, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

This post was previously published on April 10, 2009, but is still applicable today.

Tried bookmarking a Web site on the iPhone or iPod touch and you get a small screenshot you can't read instead of a polished icon? Maybe your web site is one of these that doesn't have an icon. Making one of these is simple and easy and you can have yours up and going in less than 30 minutes (design time included).