Springfield, MO – October 30, 2007 - Budding writers, poet laureates, shutterbugs and humorists will find a new outlet for their material on freshare.net. Along with the site’s general makeover, freshare has added two new categories that welcome art, photos, poetry, prose, music and humorous pieces from its visitors.

“The Ozarks is filled with storytellers, musicians and artisans” says publisher Bob Korpella. “We wanted to create a place where these individuals could share their talents with our readers, and the two new posting categories were the result.”

Freshare, which launched earlier this year, is a new media company that blends citizen journalism with professional resources to offer stories of importance to the Ozarks region.

Interaction is a cornerstone of the site and visitors can add their own news items, events, and opinions. Freshare is updated throughout the week and is filled with stories that are relevant to the area, both local news items as well as national events that have an impact on the region.

Other news is submitted by the publisher, the editor and freshare staff members along with video feeds from top news agencies like Reuters, the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal and CBS News.

To keep freshare highly interactive, there is also a forum to debate issues of interest, room for readers’ comments on any article submitted to the site and a searchable database of area events. Members can also communicate with one another behind the scenes through access to their own control panel.

The addition of a category for Ozarks humor and one for Ozarks arts…[more]

Freshare.net, which launched earlier this year, blends citizen journalism with professional resources to provide stories of importance to the Ozarks.

Freshare is excited to announce an exclusive, customized search engine powered by Google that narrows the search process to the very best bloggers and citizen journalists across the Ozarks. Now visitors can find entries from local bloggers directly from the freshare website instead of having to continually narrow their search criteria on other sites.

Citizen journalism is the cornerstone of the site and visitors can add their own news items, events, and opinions along with the ability to upload photographs, video news and podcasts. Freshare is updated throughout the week and is filled with stories that are relevant to the area, whether it’s local news items or national events that have an impact on the region. Three times each week, the top submissions are selected to become one of the ten featured stories on our front page.

Other news is submitted by the publisher, the editor and freshare staff members along with video feeds from top news agencies like Reuters, the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal and CBS News.

To keep freshare highly interactive, there is also a forum to debate hot issues of interest, room for readers’ comments on any article submitted to the site and a searchable database of area events. Members can also communicate with one another behind the scenes through access to their own control panel. For the very creative, there is a category for original poems, fiction, music and art.

Freshare’s fresh content includes trailers of upcoming movies, a…[more]