If you’re hoping to win friends and influence people, standing before a group of politicians — Democrats and Republicans — who spent more than a year of their life, and tens of thousands of dollars to campaign and then be elected to serve the people, please take note: This is not the way to do it.
When it comes to the art of persuasion, this comment, too, can be written off as a failed tactic that won’t be remembered in the halls of great public speech.
We’re now able to post content from our website to Facebook for the first time since August.
For a reason unknown to us, we had to adjust a setting on our server in order for Facebook to accept our content once again. We’re glad to have our content back on the social media platform where it can be viewed and shared.
With just one link posted to our Community Bulletin Board section, we sent OmniRide nearly 200 clicks in 24 hours.
We posted this link: OmniRide service change Monday, November 2 to the bulletin board, which appears in our weekday evening newsletter, detailing an upcoming service change OmniRide passengers need to know about.
I just finished watching The Social Dilemma on Netflix.
I know Facebook is an avenue for people to find our news. Hell, I relied on it to practically build my business — especially 10 years ago, in the early days.
During a visit to my barber this week, I learned that many small business owners and their employees are still hurting financially. Many in shops across our region are longing to see their customers’ faces.
Box-box stores and drive-through restaurants appear to be fine. Now — when they’re struggling the most — we must provide small business owners the tools necessary to help them and their employees win back customers and rebuild their businesses.
Independent news website grows to 110,000 monthly users, 3 million page views annually
As Potomac Local News turned 10 years old on June 10, 2020, the independent local news website has achieved multiple milestones.
In one month, Potomac Local News will celebrate 10 years of publishing local news in our community.
That’s a huge milestone — one that we’re exceptionally proud of.
Every day, the news is filled with the numbers of new coronavirus cases, and grim stories about those who died from the disease.
Local businesses are shuttered and people out of work. Some may never recover from this.
Many of us are now working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic.
But that doesn’t mean we should forget the people in our work lives who make our days better, and our jobs a little easier.
I spent the past four hours scouring the web, looking for the Twitter handles of as many restaurants in our area — from Gainesville to Fredericksburg — that I could find.
Starting tomorrow in Virginia, it’s Restaurant Takeout Week, a chance for residents to support their favorite restaurants during a time when dining rooms are closed in the wake of a growing number of coronavirus cases in the state and in the U.S.
