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#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
Filed under Media/Journalism, PR/Marketing, Washington DC Area
It’s not like you threw a D-Cell, Steinberg, right?
Washington Post writer Dan Steinberg says that seeing all the Phillies fans invade Nats park today made him “want to be a Nats fan.” He then notes he’s “supposed to be neutral and all that.” Sure, it’s generally the rule … Continue reading
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Will Jiffy Lube Live’s new tailgate policy make the roads safer or just shift the problems?
Thinking out loud here…the comments are open if you want to weigh in… Northern Virginia concert venue Jiffy Lube Live (formerly Nissan Pavilion) has banned tailgating in their parking lot, in “an effort to stem drunken driving, which, in the … Continue reading
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Looking beyond a playoff W-L record
Mike Wise began his May 6 Washington Post column by referencing three legendary hockey coaches and their playoff winning percentages early in their careers, as he defended Washington Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau following the team’s second round exit from the … Continue reading
Filed under Sports, Washington DC Area
Flexible work environments
I was happy to see the subject of flexible work environments getting front page exposure in Sunday’s Washington Post. I’m glad to work at a company that is already on the cutting edge with this concept—all WAKA employees are virtual … Continue reading
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Washington Post Insider
I just bought this domain, washingtonpostinsider.com, after reading a DC Sports Bog post about how the Washington Redskins asked The Washington Post to drop the name Redskins from their Redskins Insider blog. Read the last paragraph of that Dan Steinberg … Continue reading
Filed under Media/Journalism, Washington DC Area
William Steinway was a 19th century blogger
Check out the article in today’s Washington Post by Jacqueline Trescott on William Steinway, the son of the founder of Steinway pianos. It sounds as if he was a 19th century blogger. The article is about a new exhibit at … Continue reading
Filed under Washington DC Area
The Washington Post and “writing in the Internet age”
Check out page D2 of today’s Washington Post and Dave Sheinin’s story “Putting a number on a theory” for a nice example of how media in print form can reference/recognize a blogger not on their staff. The article even has … 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
Filed under Washington DC Area
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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Washington Post: I’d Like a Saturday/Sunday Subscription Option
If I have any time to sit down and read the print edition of the newspaper, it’s on the weekend. Those are the days I’m in less of a hurry to get out the door and I can sometimes sit … Continue reading
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Nats ad could have been even better with direction to social media & web
The Nats had a nice full page ad in today’s Washington Post. It thanks the fans, runs down all the highlights of the 2009 season and ends by saying “We’ll see you in 2010!” I think this ad was a … Continue reading
Filed under PR/Marketing, Sports
Bannergate
John Feinstein of The Washington Post wrote Tuesday that “The Capitals made a mistake Saturday night” by choosing to only unfurl last season’s Southeast Division championship banner from the rafters before the home opener, rather than “slowly raising” it. I … Continue reading
What’s in a Headline?
Something in today’s Washington Post has me puzzled. The Post reprinted a Baltimore Sun article about last night’s Orioles game, a game Baltimore lost 6-5 to the Boston Red Sox. The headline in The Post reads, “Guthrie, Orioles Blasted by … Continue reading
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