Today I was chosen as an honorary member of our company's ideaLab, which means that we will get some new digital tools here at The Middletown Press to experiment with.

READ MORE ABOUT IT HERE.

I think it's mainly due to our success at going Digital First in our newsroom that we will be able to be a part of this new project (this success was mentioned in The Guardian and at MediaBistro). The ideaLab project will mean we get an iPhone, an iPad and a Netbook for the office, which we can use to get local news out to the public faster than ever.

Do you have experience with these tools? Do you have suggestions for how you think we should use them to improve our news coverage? Leave a comment in the section below.