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 gallery of reader submitted photos, local weather and radar plus links to free games, printable store coupons, an employment and classified ads site and a place to find the least expensive gallon of gasoline in the area.

The look and feel of the site is clean and fresh, like the name. Navigation throughout the site is designed to be user friendly and each submitted article can be emailed, printed or bookmarked at the discretion of the visitor.

Freshare is supported by advertisers who can select to target keywords, groups, geographic areas or have their banners run randomly on various pages throughout the site. Ad view and click through information can be emailed to the advertiser as often as daily. Sponsorships are also available for certain key segments of the site.

For more information, visit www.freshare.net or call Bob Korpella, Publisher or Sydnee Crain, Editor at (417) 881-3539. You can also email either bobk@freshare.net or syd@freshare.net.

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