
This week marks the one year anniversary for the concept of Good News Wednesday. Our friend, Azsky13 wrote the article kicking off the idea of posting only good news concentrating on one day a week.

This article has been written to congratulate our Good News Wednesday members for the continued success of our good news effort.

On Monday one of my Newsvine friends told me the sad news that her husband had just been laid off.

It's been awhile since we launched Newsvine Groups. As we ramp up toward launching newly-redesigned groups, I'd like to solicit feedback on the most desired features for Newsvine Groups V2.
Five steps to wrangling an online communitySource: oldmedianewtricks.com
Do you allow users to post material on your site?
If you are the community manager of a Web site that does, ask for a raise. If you're the community manager's boss, give that person a raise … now.

Purpose: To coordinate the gathering of news, the generation of story ideas, the scheduling and assignment of coverage, and the delivery of news material to the production team for all Newsvine Assignment Desk projects.

OK, yeah, well — I got a bee in my bonnet about this thing here and, after finding a few of like mind within our little virtual society, after careful consideration and exhaustive research and internal dialog (yes - dialog - you may have an internal monologue, but I have an in …

These days when people talk about dangerous religions, they usually mean one of two things. Either they mean fundamentalist Islam, which has been broadly painted as the source of terrorism the world over, or they mean cults like Heavens Gate or David Koresh's Branch Dividians.

I have formed a new group called Children of Autism The intent of the group is to provide a place for all people touched by autism in any way, whether you're a parent of a child with autism or a relative or friend.

It seems that stories of tasering have become an almost daily occurrence for those who pay attention to the news. The issue was thrust into the national spotlight when University of Florida student Andrew Meyer was tasered by campus security guards during an appearance by Sen.
TaserWatch on NewsVineSource: Newsvine
Newsvine group keeping an eye on the pulse of the current tasering trends.

The Newsvine group "Propoganda", located at fakenews.newsvine.com, will soon be shut down. It's stated purpose was:

As a direct result of the recent poll some of us have identified a need for a new group to cater for the many varied needs of the ...ahem...more experienced citizen journalists who frequent this wonderful virtual community which is newsvine.
To that end I have created NAFF.

In response to a suggestion from Phaedrus, I have launched a Newsvine group dedicated to Bible study and prayer support. The group is called Vine and Branches and it is now functioning!

Are you tired of being young and ignored!?
Tired of all the old(er) viners patting you on the head and telling you to go talk about tv and other trivial things?!

I've just started a new group called Cultural Understanding. I've invited a few folks just to get it started, but all are welcome to join.

A lot of us complain that there is a gross lack of balance with respect to attention that the good news coming out of Iraq gets compared to the bad news.

A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. - Wikipedia
Social change is a general term which refers to:

Chill's creation of the Hot Guys group as well as his introduction last year of the hot guys tag, which hasn't really caught on yet, has led to this call to closely examine the issue of hot guys.

I think there is a lot of caring and passion for the Newsvine community, and I see it most often not only in our arguments with each other over proper format and proper use of the tools we've been given, but also in some of the more personal writing I have read on this site.

Newsvine Groups are a great way to interact with other people on Newsvine, sharing common interests, and finding specialized content that may be difficult to find otherwise.

Okay, I bit the bullet. During my break I made a group for menopause. Just about anyone can join and if it gets too . . .private, personal, tmi like, we'll either change the settings or make a menopause angst group. How's that?

The people who formed this group had a simple aim: to provide a forum that fostered an understanding of and interest in the arts.

Eric Atienza, ScooterDMan and myself have started a new group to alert the Vine to the work of a variety of artists with in depth articles that include public links to actual work.