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County Media hires Loyalist grad as first employee
December 15, 2010 – 12:16 pm | One Comment
County Media hires Loyalist grad as first employee

Here’s the media release I sent out after I officially hired my first full-time employee last week. Welcome, Caitlin!

Prince Edward County, ON – A Loyalist College graduate has become the first full-time employee at the …

How I got the twitter username I always wanted
October 10, 2010 – 9:27 am | No Comment
How I got the twitter username I always wanted

I began working on my pet project, then dubbed PEC News in 2007. Way back then, the student interns developing the Web site had never heard of RSS feeds and didn’t know about free blogging …

Social Media Week in a small town
January 31, 2010 – 5:45 pm | No Comment
Social Media Week in a small town

Today marks the beginning of Social Media Week, which is being celebrated at cities in several countries, including England, the United States, Germany and Canada. In honour of this second annual event – happening officially …

Autom8 asks Jennifer Lester about social media in a small town
January 24, 2010 – 10:10 am | One Comment

It really was great timing. Autom8 calls it serendipitous.
He was pondering his next blog post and I was doing research on social media in Hastings and Prince Edward Counties when **BAM** we collided online.
Here’s my …

County News – This Week
September 20, 2009 – 5:01 pm | No Comment

Watch every week for my short local news updates, recorded from Jennifer Lester Media headquarters in Bloomfield! I’ll be posting links to my facebook page as well as on YouTube at www.youtube.com/countynews. Feedback welcome!

Farmers’ Faces 2007
May 12, 2009 – 2:59 pm | No Comment

Farmers’ Faces was a pilot project between Jennifer Lester Media and the Economic Development Office of Prince Edward County in the summer of 2007.
The point was to profile local farmers to show people like you …

The day I was first called a “new media guru”
February 16, 2009 – 7:44 pm | No Comment

It was with wariness that I agreed to be interviewed by a student journalist with an interest in my Blogging 101 course at Loyalist College.
The writer said he was curious about what could be covered …

Learn to podcast by attending a “Brown Bag Lunch”
January 23, 2009 – 10:55 am | No Comment
Learn to podcast by attending a “Brown Bag Lunch”

The third stage of developing podcasting lessons was collaborating with our local high school, PECI, to help students develop videos about local business people for the Economic Development Office. Come back here soon to check …

Learn to podcast by going to night school
January 23, 2009 – 10:55 am | No Comment

The second stage of my work with podcasting was approaching community colleges. I’ve developed courses on “Podcasting for Beginners”, also called “Podcasting 101″.
I’ll be teaching these courses this winter over the span of four separate …

Learn to podcast by watching these videos
January 23, 2009 – 10:54 am | No Comment

Developing podcasting classes for beginners is something I’ve been rolling out in stages for the past year or so.
The first stage was developing Prince Edward County-specific video tutorials for the Economic Development Office last spring. …