Joanna Geary is a young digital journalist using social media to build communities around regional newspapers. She started her career at The Birmingham Post as a business journalist and, since then, has gone on to design build and maintain the newspaper's new blogging platform bringing together more than 30 journalists, industry leaders, academics and experienced bloggers - a first of its kind for UK regional newspapers. She has also launched The Birmingham Post's new news, business, sport and lifestyle feeds on micro-blogging service Twitter.