Yesterday I was inspired by Andy Sternberg after he invited me to join the Los Angeles FriendFeed room.

What a brilliant use of the new FriendFeed room feature.

FriendFeed is still an early adopter crowd, even more so than Twitter, but the rooms have a simple interface that, I suspect, would be easier for a non-digital native to pick up and adopt.

As always, I wouldn’t force people into a network, the beat blogger has to come to them. But increasingly I believe it’s about having multiple networks. For example, I started a FriendFeed room for the Bay Area, but that won’t stop me from joining or interacting with a Bay Area group on Facebook. Between the two, I am more and more connected.

If I connect the activities of these groups to my Google Reader, I can effortlessly keep in touch with what is happening on both and react when necessary.

So what’s your beat? Does it have a FriendFeed room? Is there already a Facebook group? Can you join those two, get accepted into those communities – and then when you are ready, create your own Ning group to serve your personal reporting needs?