Tag Archives: Washington DC
#hiremikeholden on washingtonpost.com
The #hiremikeholden hashtag made it onto washingtonpost.com, thanks to my fantastic wife! The Post wished good luck on Twitter too, after I tweeted the image below. Thanks to them and everyone else who has been spreading the word about my … Continue reading
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#hiremikeholden: Taking my job search viral and starting a PR/marketing firm
As I take the next step forward in my career, I’m looking to do two things and I hope you’ll take a couple of minutes to check this out and share it with people. My goals with this blog post: … Continue reading
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Supporting my local brewer
I made my first trip to DC Brau headquarters today, after reading a @dcbrau tweet that they had the FWR Imperial Pumpkin Porter on tap—I’m a sucker for any pumpkin beer and it’s usually tough to find them outside the … Continue reading
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Kevin Weekes says Caps now “the main team” in DC area sports scene
Speaking on the NHL Network about the Anaheim Ducks hiring of former Caps coach Bruce Boudreau, Kevin Weekes praised Boudreau for putting Caps “back on the radar” and said, “they’re now the main team back in the DC area in … Continue reading
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Kickball in DC on NBC
NBC 4 in Washington DC put together a very nice piece on WAKA’s kickball leagues in DC [video]. Check it out at that link and you can visit WAKA’s DC area kickball page if you’d like to find a league … Continue reading
Filed under Sports, Washington DC Area
CSN has Caps & Wizards in HD tonight simultaneously for first time ever
Tonight will be the first time during the 2010-11 regular season that the Washington Capitals and Wizards play at the same time. And as CSN Washington notes on their blog, the regional sports network will broadcast both teams’ games simultaneously … Continue reading
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Revenue Generators for Metro
Whenever I read that Metro is facing a budget shortfall and that the proposed solutions are a fare increase or a reduction in services, it frustrates me. There are at least two things it seems WMATA could look to as … Continue reading
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D.C.’s new West End Cinema “a compliment, not a competitor”
Continuing what is unexpectedly a series on competition and collaboration… There must be something in the water in D.C. or Jamie Shor, co-founder of the new West End Cinema, has been hanging out with Steve Buttry, Tom Meyer and Seth … Continue reading
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Healthy views on competition and collaboration
Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement for TBD, offers up some great “thoughts on competition and collaboration” in a recent post about Patch, the AOL series of local news sites that some bloggers are worried will cost them web traffic. … Continue reading
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D.C. Metro Escalators Summed Up in One Lyric
“We sent a man to the moon brought him back two weeks later apparently not as long as it takes to fix an escalator” – GoRemy
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The Mike Wise Issue in One Tweet
Regarding Washington Post columnist Mike Wise and his experiment on Twitter—where he sent out tweets containing made-up information to basically test a theory and see if people would pass it on without verifying its accuracy—this tweet by John Ourand with … Continue reading
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