I’ve been asked to contribute to the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies blog, web.aan.org. AAN’s web director and editor, Laura Fries, set up the site to share web publishing tips and best practices among AAN members.

My first post is about finding and using local content on YouTube.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at...