First off, apologies for the lack of posts over the last month. Every time I wanted to blog about something that I was working on at The Record, 10 new things came up that had to be done yesterday.

This will be a short update for today with more details coming very soon, but I wanted to point out on here that some exciting new programs are coming to The Record for the Troy community and surrounding readers throughout the Capital District this year.

In the next month and a half we will unveil a new community meeting space (our on-site Community Media Lab located on our first floor, which is getting finishing touches soon) and begin holding several audience-driven programs.

We've already started to schedule presentations such as one on Irish genealogy a week before St. Patrick's Day, a bass fishing night at the end of March just before the majority of local anglers get ready to spend their days in area streams, and more coming soon with the arts, business programs, and even musical performances to be held in our building for the community to attend in person as well as online.

All of what we offer will be offered in person at The Record building (501 Broadway, Troy, NY 12180), as well as Live-Streamed on TroyRecord.com and recorded in HD video to be viewed later.

As I said, plenty more details will be on the way soon, but let me just say it will be an exciting, and busy, year at The Record in 2011.