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We’re hiring! Come work for us or help us find great people!
Greater Greater Washington is growing and working more on housing. We’re looking to grow our team with two new, amazing people. Is that you? Or do you know someone who fits the bill? Our new Community Engagement Manager will develop our new housing program by building relationships with people in a wide range of neighborhoods, planning in-person events, recruiting people… Keep reading…
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Help us rebrand and relaunch our website with a short survey
Yesterday, we were so excited to share the big news that Greater Greater Washington is growing. We’re also (thanks in part to our new resources) starting on a site redesign. Can you help us by taking a very short survey? Keep reading…
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What we hope to do on housing
Greater Greater Washington will be growing thanks to a generous gift and foundation grant, and increasing our focus on housing. Here’s what we have in mind for housing. Keep reading…
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Big news! We’re growing and doing more on housing
We’re excited to bring you big news for Greater Greater Washington. We’ve just gotten a donation and a grant which will make it possible to improve and expand our content and add a bigger focus on housing, an issue we’ve long hoped to cover in more detail. Greater Greater Washington started out as a labor of love and a volunteer operation. I started this… Keep reading…
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“Convincing” and “enjoyable” “even with the wonkiness”
We’re very proud to have been named “best local blog” in Washingtonian magazine. We’re most excited, however, because the writers at Washingtonian did an amazing job capturing, in just a few sentences, what it is that motivates us to bring Greater Greater Washington to you every day: Keep reading…
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How zombies made me a better writer
A lot of people want to be better bloggers, but either aren’t sure how or doubt whether they’d be good at it. Thanks to some easy tips, those concerns needn’t stop you from writing! The following is a collection of tweets from the How to Blog workshop that that members of Greater Greater Washington’s editorial board hosted to give bloggers skills they… Keep reading…
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Here’s how to use HTML formatting in our comments
Have you ever wondered how some people are able to format their comments to include things like italics and lists? We’ve put together this handy guide to help you understand how to do this yourself. Basic HTML coding will work in our comments. We’re not going to cover everything, but here are a few simple tools. HTML tagging uses the angle brackets (< and >) to tell… Keep reading…
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We’re getting an award!
On May 20, Greater Greater Washington founder David Alpert is receiving the 2015 Sanders-Henn Community Hero Award from the Coalition for Smarter Growth for building Greater Greater Washington into the community we have today. According to the Coalition for Smarter Growth, He has earned our annual award for the region’s most outstanding volunteer advocate for… Keep reading…
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We’re revising our comment policy. Here’s what’s changing
In January, we announced plans to revise our comment policy. You responded with your thoughts on the matter. Today, we’re putting the new policy in place. The policy we’re leaving behind, which we introduced in August 2011, served us fairly well. In fact, that’s what most of you said in the comments on the recent post. You like the comment policy and don’t… Keep reading…
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Thanks for celebrating our Greater Greater birthday
Thanks to all of you — our readers, friends, and donors — who celebrated our seventh birthday last night! Keep reading…