Obama's inauguration: Schedule and top links

nzherald.co.nz will have full coverage of Barack Obama's presidential inauguration from 6am this morning. Photo / AP

nzherald.co.nz is making it easier to keep up-to-date with all the events as the USA's first black President takes over from George W. Bush.

Check out the links below to see how you can follow Barack Obama's presidential inauguration:

1. Follow live updated coverage of Barack Obama's inauguration on CNN.

2. Hear what top aides have to say about Barack Obama's inauguration speech.

3. Follow Barack Obama's inauguration on Realclearpolitics.com.

4. Watch live-streaming of the inauguration ceremony on Fox News.

5. Test your knowledge with this US presidential inauguration quiz on the Fox News Facebook page.

6. Having trouble finding the inauguration information you're searching for? Click on Chris Stephen's 44-point guide to the greatest show on earth.

7. Follow the inauguration on Barack Obama's Facebook.

8. Hear what the Obama team have to say on the inauguration and join in the global inauguration discussion on Twitter.

9. US media executives say the inauguration is the most complicated and difficult news story of all the Obama events in the past year to cover. On Politico they explain why.

10. Follow Barack Obama's Washington inauguration with the city's esteemed paper the Washington Post.