A large chicken takes a tumble.
So, this is a first.
I was working this Saturday, and all hell broke loose with the weather.
I was driving back to the office from lunch when a monsoon erupted.
I called my editor and asked if I should get a photo of something going on to post with a web update.
The rain. People hating the rain. Whatever.
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This is the closed food court, caution tape and all. My editor, Cathy Hirko, noticed I’m getting a little artsy fartsy with my iPhone photos.
The other day, I posted about Gathering Point, this neat tool you can use to make social maps that update in realtime to complement stories.
On Tuesday, I had the perfect opportunity to see it in action: A cockroach infestation that closed the food court at the York Galleria mall.
On a side note, that day, I pretty much almost crashed my car on Rt. 30.
En route to the mall, I had my notepad pinned against the steering wheel while I took notes from Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Samantha Krepps. Continue reading
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What’s going on in Boyer’s neighborhood? Click the map.
So, because WordPress is dumb, and I can’t figure out how to embed an iFrame into the non-customized blog that I barely pay anything annually for, here’s the deal:
Today, my editor Cathy Hirko gave me a distraction that, if executed properly, should keep me sufficiently amused all weekend. Continue reading
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So, I had my doubts about guerrilla marketing stories.
To me, it just seems like a hassle — not to mention irritating — to be posting EVERY story I write on random Facebook walls, forums, blogs and the like.
But yesterday proved me wrong.
Our “Risky Business” package had dropped off the radar of ydr.com’s Top 10.
Sean and I may have shed a tear.
Alas, we weren’t ready to throw in the towel. This project is the result of months worth of work. Continue reading
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Tell people where you are, and they will come.
On Tuesday, I had a visitor during my ideaLab office hours at Central Market.
It was Sue Diaz, spokeswoman for The Potter’s House, a 300-member Hispanic congregation that’s hoping to buy a historic church in downtown York.
She had corresponded with me earlier that day via the ydr.com Facebook page, where I had posted my location for the morning. Continue reading
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Originally published on the Money & More cover of the York Daily Record/Sunday News on Sunday, February 5, 2012.
***I found this story while trolling on Twitter last weekend. Some seemed shocked at the interaction that appeared on their Facebook newsfeed. I decided to pursue it as a local example of a situation that plagues business across the country.
By LAUREN BOYER
Daily Record/Sunday News
Joyce Salazar was washing bar dishes last weekend when a frustrated group mistakenly identified her as a member of the waitstaff.
That’s when the owner of La Casa De Tapas, which opened last year, said she swallowed a profanity-laced insult from a member of the party, frustrated that a table wasn’t available on that busy Saturday night. They had made a reservation, she said, earlier that day.
Salazar made some space at the bar. She offered them complimentary drinks and tapas – small Spanish, Peruvian and Mediterranean dishes – while they waited.
Nothing, she said, seemed to calm them down. Continue reading
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