We have launched. The New NewsU is live [as you probably already know thanks to our e-mail blast.]

We have officially thrown the switch for our new site. And nothing blew up.

That's what makes everyone happy, which we are. And we're pretty tired, too. We've all been hard at this for the last several months and during the last several weeks it has been very intense. OK, I've been very tense.

We aren't done yet. NewsU has great users and they are giving us great ideas about how to make the site even better. We came across one idea today: A screencast on how to send a "course report." This was put together by Barbara Nixon who teaches at both Georgia Southern University (online) and Southeastern University (face-to-face).

If you want to learn more about some of our new ideas and features on the site, come to our FREE Webinar on

Thursday, Feb. 4 at 10 am ET or 2 pm ET. Yes. I said FREE. And here's the sweet part: We'll be giving away a promo code worth 50% off any of the Webinars in our archive library. That's more than 50 training events.

Here's the link to the Webinar: http://www.newsu.org/courses/new-newsu-site-tour

See you there. If not, see you at Poynter's NewsU, the #1 site for journalism training. Anytime. Anywhere. For anybody.