On the Web

We’re heading online

By Henry Rome
Editor in Chief

Cue doomsday music. In a world where national and local newspapers are consolidating, firing staffs, cutting pages, shutting down…

…Your local high school newspaper is dynamic and expanding.

It’s a new age for newspapers, and while we reaffirm our commitment to providing you the most accurate and most informative Conestoga news once a month in print, we are making the transition online.

Stoganews.com, in its second year, has recently been redesigned by our Web team. With the redesign, which took place a few weeks ago, we rolled out a variety of different projects. All to keep you more informed and allow you to interact with your news.

Go on Stoganews.com for the latest breaking news, updated daily. Check out the site for blogs, polls and photo galleries. You can comment on stories or share them with your friends with new Facebook compatibility. You can get RSS feeds from the site, or just check the site out with new Blackberry and iPhone capabilities. While you’re looking at the newest information from Conestoga, use the links to check your school e-mail, grades and more.

This is just the beginning for Stoganews.com. In the coming months we plan to roll out several new projects, including an interactive event calendar, SMS breaking news alerts and PDF versions of The Spoke. Also, in the coming weeks, we will form a new Stoganews.com Production Club, where students with an interest in Web design can contribute to the site.

But we want to know what you think. What would you like to see on Stoganews.com? What new features would you like to see, what aspects of Conestoga would you like represented? Shoot us off an e-mail and let us know. Because it’s your site.
And while The Spoke may be expanding, know that you can still count on us for the most current Conestoga news and information—in print or online. Without the doomsday music.

Henry Rome can be reached at hrome@stoganews.com.

Printed originally on p. 7 of the Feb. 13, 2009 issue of The Spoke