There's a new Facebook Group for Brightwood and Upper GA Ave

There's a new Facebook Group for Brightwood and Upper GA Ave

There’s a new Facebook group on the block! If you live north of Military Ave/Missouri Road (e.g., Brightwood, Colonial Village, Shepherd Park, Takoma, Manor Park) and want a smaller online space to connect with neighbors and share local news, then learn more!

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You can help local retail, one Facebook Page at a time

You can help local retail, one Facebook Page at a time

Putting the walk to the talk, I decided I wanted to work with a local business to help them reach a wider audience, as cheaply as possible. So I built a Facebook page for the Town and Country Market on Upshur Street.

You can do the same thing for your favorite business and help them market themselves.

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Site Comments! We're turning off Facebook comments, keeping Disqus

Site Comments! We're turning off Facebook comments, keeping Disqus

We're going to keep the Disqus commenting system that has been at the bottom of articles for a while now. You can use it as a guest or anonymously (still need a legit email though), or use your Facebook, Twitter or Google account to login and leave a comment. You can even use an alias.

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Facebook changes: How to ensure you keep up with Petworth News

Facebook changes: How to ensure you keep up with Petworth News

Facebook uses some pretty intense algorithms to control the content that shows up on your personal timeline. Recently, they made changes to prioritize posts from family and friends over the Pages you follow. This means you won't see as many Petworth News posts as you might have previously.

In fact, you might not see most of them.

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Thank You 1,000 times

Thank you 1,000 times over for supporting Petworth News! It's a nice birthday present to have the Facebook page hit 1,000 Likes. 

I hope the blog here at PetworthNews.org and on Facebook continues to be useful to the community.

Be sure to come out to Petworth Citizen on Monday, June 29th at 6pm to celebrate!

Mildly interesting side note: the 1,000th Like was Katie Ashmore (thanks Katie!) then someone unliked the page, bringing it back to 999, then Dan Hausman brought it back to 1,000 (thanks Dan!) and Jeff Davis was 1,001 (thanks Jeff!).

Drew

Hyperlocal community journalist in Petworth, Washington DC.



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