Category: rockville central
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Farewell, Rockville Central
As many of my friends and colleagues know, in June 2007 I founded a local blog called Rockville Central. Within a week or two [correction: the first day] my friend and colleague, Cindy Cotte Griffiths, joined me and we co-managed the blog from that point forward. Over time, it grew to be the second most-read…
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Featured On Page One Of Washington Post's Sunday Business Section
I was away on vacation and so was not there to bask in the glory, but I was given a heads-up by the reporter and knew it was coming: On Sunday, June 26, me and my colleague Cindy Cotte Griffiths were featured on the front page of the Washington Post’s business section. The story, by…
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Reactions To Moving A Community Hub To Facebook
I just sent out my periodic email to folks (you can sign up at the right) and in it I gave a quick recap of the reaction to our decision this week to move Rockville Central to Facebook. I thought you might be interested to read the note, as it collects much of the response…
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Moving A Local Blog To Facebook-Only
This morning we announced that our highly successful local news blog, Rockville Central, would be shifting focus. We will no longer be updating Rockville Central’s website, but instead will shift 100% to Facebook. We think this is a pioneering — and gutsy — move. What allows us to make this move is that Rockville Central…
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How To Handle Overeager Posts On Your Facebook Public Page
Here’s a question I get asked often by organization managers considering getting more active in social media — Facebook in particular. One best practice when it comes to Facebook Pages is to set the default setting so that visitors are looking at posts not only by the page owner but also by fans. But: “What…
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Ordinary People Stepping Into Public Life
Yesterday, I described one way in which my local blog, Rockville Central, is different from our local newspaper, even though my blog contains “news.” The key lies in the purpose behind the blog, which is to improve community life in the town I call home. In essence, with Rockville Central I am trying to open…
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My Local Blog Is Not A Local Newspaper And I Like It That Way
As my readers know, at my recent session at the No Better Time conference on dialogue and deliberation, one of the things I talked about in depth was the local blog I founded over two years ago, Rockville Central. Civic idealist and geek that I am, I created Rockville Central in order to have a…
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Bully
Boy, I feel for Abigail Pardou. Why? Here’s how Washington Post’s Marc Fisher sets the scene: As much as any elected official in Washington, Harry “Tommy” Thomas, the D.C. council member from Ward 5, carries himself like a good old-fashioned machine politician. Son of a council member, Thomas is a cheerful and omnipresent face in…
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Looking For Mr. GoodBlog
My friend Adam Pagnucco, who writes a blog on Maryland Politics called, natch, Maryland Politics Watch, had a fascinating post just the other day. Actually, it wasn’t by him — it was by his wife, Holly Olson. In it, she chronicles the history of her husband’s involvement with MPW and blogging, and announces there are…
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