Schedule a Chat With Your Sources


	Schedule a Chat With Your Sources

Digidave

1-24-2008 5:41 PM

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Digidave says:

Yoni Green thinks ChatMaker could work for newsrooms. I think it could work to organize a live chat with "friends of your beat" -- people who know and are invested in what you are reporting on.

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