Posts about About GGWash
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Want to learn to write blog posts? We’ll teach you how!
Blogging is a powerful way to share what you know. On December 7th at the Tenley Library, we’ll teach you everything you need to know to effectively and persuasively share your ideas with the world. Keep reading…
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Can you help us monitor comments?
We think the Greater Greater Washington comment discussions and the community of people who participate are a very special and valuable component of this site and our work. We need a few volunteers to help monitor the comments and keep them great. We want a comment section that, as much as possible, people feel comfortable participating in, and which readers can find educational… Keep reading…
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Want more discussion of the topics we cover? Follow our contributors on Twitter with this list
We have a knowledgable base of contributors to thank for the content that goes up here every day. But what our writers have to say isn’t limited to our site. They’re part of a non-stop conversation about the forces that shape our region, much of which unfolds on Twitter. We put together a list so you can follow it easily. Keep reading…
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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…