The 2009 Presidential Inauguration.

We’ve been prepping for the event all this week and will be continually adding new content to the homepage of MiamiHerald.com through the big dance on Tuesday. We will be staffed with five producers all assigned to different tasks to keep new info coming cleanly and smoothly. I’ll personally be tweeting from my own account (@malcolli) and you can catch all headlines from @MiamiHerald.  Stephanie Rosenblatt (@steph_rose) is building a graphic to contain all the good content from our inauguration page, similar to what she helped build for our ‘Cuba: 50 Years’ special report.

For now I’m assigned to attach links to new stories and moderate the comments sections, which I’m most excited about.  Being a “community moderator” is a role that pops up more and more on the job boards so I’m intrigued as to what monitoring comments will actually entail in real time.  I wasn’t lucky enough to be on staff during election night, which from what I’ve heard, was a newsroom party until five in the morning, but I don’t mind settling for this.  We’ve also been on the watch for a certain former Cuban dictator to pass away after back-and-fourth reports of his continuing failing health issues. In South Florida, that’s about as big as the news can get.

If I was back in school, the upcoming week would be like midterms, only nothing to study. But I’ll learn a lot, no doubt.