Update

Our Facebook and Twitter accounts are continuing to grow. Currently, I'm using our Twitter account for a couple of different things: To get campus quotes and to send out pictures from the Beacon. The latter is a new development I've been trying, and it's been getting us a lot of retweets and favorites (and, as a result, followers). I've sent out three pictures so far: the Linden/Warrior princess photoshop, our butt bracket, and a picture of the word "Bacon" so that we can promote the upcoming Bacon issue.

I poked around inside the various folders and found a lot of old pictures that could conceivably be deleted. If Linden approved their deletion, they would free up a TON of extra space (pictures are extremely space-consuming). I'll show her them on Thursday.

Another update

Our Facebook and Twitter numbers continue to grow. The past week, I spent some time on Twitter responding to a couple of people who were asking about why some stories didn't make it online. This is another solid use for social media...we can find out what people are looking for and give them those stories. We didn't have the porn article online, and they wanted to read it.

I also responded to some people on Facebook who were requesting that we put the campus quotes online with our next issue. That's my department, so I told her I would be happy to do so. I'll have to figure out an acceptable format for the quotes on WordPress, but that shouldn't take me very long and I can create a template for future editors (who might not have written 2,000 NBA blogs on WP) to use.

I talked to Linden about deleting some of the old pages. We have copies of all of our old Beacons saved, but we also have separate "Features" "A&C" etc. clogging up room. They were never deleted after Linden packaged them all together.

I'll look for more excess this week.