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Joining the Sun Edition of Presbyterian Neighbor News are three new editions: Living Waters, Lakes and Prairies and Lincoln Trails. Those sites have just opened for training three edition editors who are learning a brand new publishing system online. 

We're sharing those sites with you even before they are ready in order to provide a glimpse of how this Presbyterian Neighbor News partnership works.

PNNews.org is organized by neighborhood (synod). When fully developed, this network will have 16 different editions. You will go to your neighborhood edition to find news from your part of the country and still be connected to news of Presbyterians across the PC(USA). 

The Sun Edition debuted this spring. We introduced the three new editors to the publishing system days before this General Assembly opened.  We thank the synods and their respective editors for forging a new way to share news: Janet Tuck, Living Waters editor; Duane Sweep, Lakes and Prairies editor; and Marta Kramer, Lincoln Trails editor.

Other synods already participating but are awaiting their turn to go online or determine their editor:

  • Alaska-Northwest
  • Covenant
  • Mid-America
  • Mid-Atlantic
  • Northeast
  • Pacific
  • Rocky Mountains
  • Southwest

This vision of providing one stream of information flowing through every Presbyterian neighborhood is being realized through the mutual trust and financial support of the 12 of 16 synods participating thus far.

Thanks be to God,

Shane Whisler
PNNews.org editor

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In the next 10 days we will officially go public with the promotion of Presbyterian Neighbor News: Sun Edition.

Through May 6 we will be preparing The Presbyterian SUN newspaper for press. We will add articles from the print edition to the website before the newspaper is mailed.

Thanks to the subscribers who signed up for weekly updates during this testing phase of PNNews.org. End of story

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jimbobtex said at 8:53 a.m. on May 3, 2008, 8:53 a.m.

Shane, Many thanks for your efforts in bringing this opportunity to us. It's not often that I get to be the first. It is like making the first tracks through new fallen snow and I hate to be mess it up, it looks so good. The site looks good and works well. Many thanks for getting it up and running. May it become a blessing to connecting God's children and spreading His word.

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We welcome you to a preview of what we hope will be the best way for Presbyterians to stay informed and connected.

Presbyterian Neighbor News is a network of news sites organized geographically. This "SUN EDITION" represents the first neighborhood in that network. We are still in development, but are making this site available in order to welcome comments from readers and our collaborators.

PNNews.org is made possible only through a partnership of synods of the Presbyterian Church (USA). It is a complement to the existing Presbyterian resources including the denomination's official website, pcusa.org. Our goal is to promote the mission and cooperation of Presbyterians locally and globally.

To submit comments, you do need to sign up for a free "account." None of your contact information will be shared in any way. Your account simply helps us measure how many people are participating in this site. You also have the option of receiving weekly digests.

Thank you for participating!

Peace,

Shane

Shane Whisler is the editor of PNNews.org and director of communications for the Synod of the Sun.End of story

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Shawn said at 2:36 p.m. on January 31, 2008, 2:36 p.m.

Great idea with a lot of potential! But if you really want this to work you're going to need to have multiple RSS feeds for various kind of content. There are a large and increading number of people like myself who don't regularly visit news websites any more, but rather have 50-60 blog/site feeds in their Google reader or other aggregator.

Another suggestion is to have a place where people who comment can include a URL with their name. We Web 2.0 folk love to plug our blogs. :)

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www.decently.org

MLW said at 2:59 p.m. on February 1, 2008, 2:59 p.m.

Thanks, Shane, for giving us another way of staying in touch and sharing the good news of the work being done throughout our various synods. Every added way of communicating is a bonus!

MLW

[anonymous] said at 3:29 p.m. on February 7, 2008, 3:29 p.m.

I really love the site! What a great way to share the news from all around the church. Bravo!

Dianna Ott
Director of Creative Services
General Assembly Council

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