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As you can imagine, things are pretty busy at Birmingham Post Towers as we all gear up for the launch of the brand new Birmingham Post on Monday.

There has, unstandably, been much talk of changes to our print editon, but there also going to be a few tweaks and upgrades on the digital side too.

We hope the website will get a new coat of paint and there is also the new mobile site to look out for in the coming week.

However, whilst others are doing a fantastic job communicating the changes to our newspaper to our online community, my focus is telling our print readers about all the exciting things we are building up online.

So, over the past 24 hours (as those who follow my Twitter account might know), I've been putting together a list of things people might not know about the Post online.

It is supposed to target print readers who may have little or no knowledge of social media sites like Facebook, but may be curious enough to get involved.

It's not going to be an exhaustive "step-by-step" guide, just an introduction to what these online tools might do.

I've tried to make this as clear as possible, but things can always be improved. I'd be interested to know what you think!

That's the question Marc Reeves decided to ask readers on micro-blogging service Twitter today:

The response? Well it was, rather predictably, lukewarm when it came to the PM.

With apologies to the Marcus Angermeier whose original is the famous:

An interesting week for The Birmingham Post, particularly for our increasingly successful online incarnation.

We posted our highest visitor figures since the launch at the end of February, and our blogs are climbing up the Trinity Mirror rankings, giving titles much larger than the Post a run for their money.

But the potentially biggest development is our foray into the ever-changing, ever-growing world of Twitter. (I blogged on this subject last week).

Do you Twitter? I do. (and so do Hillary and Barack)

Occasionally I go whole days without Twittering, but then I need to get a fix and I just can't stop myself.

Sometimes I get such a severe dose of Twittorrhoea that I sit at my computer for what seems like hours, and only leave when I've got nothing left to Twitter.

What's this twit going on about now? you may ask.