Though dead these 11 years (as of Feb. 20, 2009), the Nashville Banner, Music City's conservative afternoon daily, enjoys a resurrection of sorts at the "Nashville Banner RIP" Facebook page. With 56 members as of this posting, the site helps staffers keep up with colleagues and also to meet Bannerites from other eras.

A new book from the the O'Reilly "Missing Manual" series called "Wikipedia: The Missing Manual" is today being published simultaneously in print and is being posted in the Help section of Wikipedia.

We've shared with you five social media resolutions for this year, and now here are three follow-up questions every association executive should consider, whether your association is new to social media or you're a Web 2.0 veteran:

1. How will you incorporate social media into association events?
Events provide associations a perfect opportunity to leverage the power and excitement of social media. There are so many ways an association can engage its members before, during and after an event with social media tools.

We recently received an award for the event work we did for our client the National Federation of Independent Business on their 2008 National Small Business Summit website. We used tools like Flickr, YouTube and Twitter to engage the Summit attendees and non-attendees through the creation of a dynamic site. We took unique advantage of social media and also provided a central place for all event-related content.

Nowadays, you can probably throw a rock out of your window and hit someone who knows at least that it exists; maybe your target is even using it. (But please, don't throw rocks out of your window.)

I was just flipping through the current issue of the Folio: magazine and was surprised to see the first sentence in the cover story was that comment.

If you are an association or corporate marketer who has decided that 2009 will be your organization's year to join in the conversation taking place on the web, we suggest putting your toe in the water before diving into the deep end. But definitely get wet. Here are five resolutions to get you started:

1. If you haven't already, set up accounts on these services: YouTube.com, Flickr, Twitter, GMail, FaceBook and LinkedIn. In later posts, we'll be discussing each one in-depth, but for now, just make sure you have registered a username that is consistent across all of those services. Also, in later posts, we'll provide you with about 15 other services to register on.