Below are resources, links and guides for Gannett, ContentOne and USAToday/ USAToday.com staff.

The first part of the session was an overview of various digital, mobile and smartbook ecosystems. The second part of the session highlighted several tech trends and explained how they can be immediately applied to Gannett, USAToday, USAToday.com, Community Publishing and ContentOne.

#1: Hyperlocal
Offender Application
Represent (NYTimes.com)
Foursquare
Bing's Map Apps
GeoAPI
Micello Application

#2: The Real Time Web
Flock
SamePoint
Socialmention
Simple Update Protocol
Robo.to
RSSCloud
PubSubHubbub
Livestation
Spokeo

#3: Lightblogging
Tumblr
Posterous
Micro Persuasion (Steve Rubel's first blog)
Steve Rubel's Lifecasting Posterous Site
Dan Baum's Twitter Rampage
AudioBoo

#4: Augmented Reality
Living Sasquatch
Yelp (Monocle currently only works on iPhone 3GS)
Wikitude
AcrossAir
Robotvision
Abbyy (OCR)
Nuance (OCR)

#5: Social 3.0
Quarkbase
Backtype
Picasa
Face.com

#6: Personalization
Bing
My6Sense

#7: RFID
TouchTag

#8: User Generated Sensor Data
Vitamin D
Glympse

#9: The Data Decade
ChangeTracker
Times Document Reader
Guardian's World Government Data resource

#10: New Media Companies (and your competition)
Demand Studios
AOL
Sports Illustrated's tablet demo

The third part of the session featured an action plan and next steps for all of the participants.

If you have any questions or would like additional help, please do not hesitate to contact our office.