East Cobb News Digest newsletter

The East Cobb News weekly newsletter for Jan. 21, 2018 is out!

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Catch up with all of the past week’s headlines (and not just the winter storm!) and take a look at what’s coming up this week with our convenient weekly e-mail newsletter.

The East Cobb News Digest is delivered every Sunday afternoon, and contains so much more, including the best calendar listings anywhere in East Cobb and convenient community information.

Subscribing to the newsletter is free and easy (just click the signup button below). We don’t sell or rent our e-mail listings to anyone, although as was the case this week, we did send out weather-related breaking news alerts to our subscribers.

Now that we’re thawing out (hello, 60-degree weather!), catch up with what you may have missed during another crazy weather week.

We know you’re busy, and that you don’t want to miss out on what’s going on around you. Sign up today and be part of East Cobb’s only daily news source, independently operated and with a totally local focus.

We’re enhancing our newsletter—including more top local headlines—due to changes Facebook is making to its News Feed, which that may limit what you see if you follow or like East Cobb News on that social media platform.

Welcome to our newest subscribers!

Gail Lightfoot, Julie Lovejoy, Vinnie Aromin, Don Hunter, Cathy Williams, Terry Colvin, Ginger Bondurant, Anthony Criscuolo, Norma Kratt, Teresa Masterson, David Blumenthal, Kathleen McKevitt, Riko Schatke, Penny Crump, Cheryl Gross, Sally Ogletree, Dave Pettrow, Jennifer Bates, Susan Hebrank, Walter Johnson, MaryLynn Hollister, Kathleen Corley, Jennifer Bridges, Jackie McCormick, Michael Harris, Bruce Meacham.

 

With Facebook changes coming, here’s how to never miss a post from East Cobb News

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Earlier this month, East Cobb News turned six months old, as this community-focused news resource strives to cover more events and provide readers with local information they can’t get anywhere else.Wendy Parker, East Cobb News

Most of you find us through search engines like Google, but many of you also have East Cobb News stories delivered to you through social media channels, especially Facebook.

If you get East Cobb News stories mainly through Facebook, what you’ll see from us in your newsfeed will be changing very soon.

In fact, you’ll be getting less and less of what East Cobb News and other publishers share with you, even though you may like and follow our Facebook page and want to get your news this way.

That’s because Facebook this week announced major changes in what users will get in their news feed and will begin limiting the content you see from news organizations like ours.

“As we roll this out, you’ll see less public content like posts from businesses, brands, and media,” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook account.

Facebook hopes this change will increase the quality of the news in your feed and give users more time to connect with the people most important to them.

Many of you rely on Facebook to see the content we post every day on East Cobb News. As I have learned as publisher and in a previous job covering East Cobb for AOL, many of our most engaged users, active East Cobb citizens, congregate on Facebook to share the latest news with their friends and neighbors.

It’s a shame that Facebook is making this move while upstart, independent local news outlets, like East Cobb News, are fighting to fill the gap left by newspapers and other media organizations. We’re just getting going with East Cobb News, and building an engaged readership, online as well as in the community.

One thing you can do if you follow the East Cobb News Page is to change your News Feed settings to “See First” (as shown at left) instead of “Default.” This prioritizes the pages you want to see, and was introduced a couple years ago by Facebook. Here’s more about See First, and for now, it appears it’s remaining as a user option.

As things change, however, we’re also finding that more and more East Cobb citizens are are signing up every day for our free weekly newsletter, the East Cobb News Digest, which is delivered every Sunday afternoon.

The Digest includes highlighted stories from the previous week and a glimpse of what’s on tap in the coming week, as well as useful community information.

Due to the changes being made by Facebook, I will be including a few more links from stories of the past week in the newsletter. Eventually I may increase the frequency of the newsletter to a couple times a week and send out alerts for major breaking news. East Cobb News does not sell or rent its newsletter subscriber list to anyone.

The simplest way to deal with these changes, if you are a Facebook user and get your news from East Cobb News, is to subscribe to our newsletter. If you haven’t done so, it’s free, and signing up is easy. After clicking the button below, you’ll never miss an important story about what’s going on in East Cobb.

 

Thanks for your readership of East Cobb News, and please let us know what you think. Feel free to contact me anytime at: wendy@eastcobbnews.com or call 404-219-4278.

The last East Cobb News Digest for 2017 is out! Subscribing is a snap!

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If you’re a newsletter subscriber, you received a special year-end edition of the East Cobb News Digest on Friday, ahead of the New Year’s holiday.

The newsletter usually comes out on Sunday, and will return on its usual date next Sunday, Jan. 7.

If you haven’t subscribed, it’s free and easy to do so. Follow this link, type in your e-mail address and you’re all set! Catch up with the top headlines in East Cobb, find out what’s coming up and find convenient community information all in one place!

East Cobb News doesn’t offer or sell its newsletter list to anyone, but in the future subscribers may receive occasional messages from advertisers.

We launched in the middle of the year and I’m looking forward to expanding our coverage of East Cobb in our first full year, and provide readers and local business owners more opportunities to make community connections.

I want to end 2017 with a special thanks to all of you who have subscribed recently, and who continue to read East Cobb News:

Greg Talsky, Lisa Hanson, Elizabeth Brown, Frankie Bidwell, Robert Love, Cecilia Griesenauer, Robert Tchou, Steve Worrall, Jana Hill, Bobbie Whitaker, J. Stewart, Megan Lee, Katie Williams, Teresa Glamp, Christina Engberg, Cornelius O’Connor, Bill Zingalie, Katie Hinson, Lonnie Hignite, M. Brown, Gordon Hopper.

Doris Wilson, Patricia Young, Caroline McGrath, Nate Bennett, Alexis Williams, Robert Thompson, Iris Thorn, Laura Springer, Barbara DeLaRonde, Jacky Rojas, Ruth Powell, Amanda Myers, Makiko Onodera, Gail Harris, Bob Zartarian, Johnnie Hunsucker, Ellen Williams, Charles Muckey, Miles Seymour, Douglas Martin, Dipti Khilnani.

Jennifer Gleaton, Roger Wilby, Janice Ciejek, Charlotte McDowell Montgomery, Mary Scruggs, Steve Ridenour, Ed Speirs, Stacy Gibbs, L. Stokes, Meredith Pierce, Jessie Lovett, Dorie Gallagher, Catherine Raymond, Jessica Karp, Mike Politinsky, Mikki Hester, Jennifer Burke, Heather Johnson, Scott Felcher, Angela Herritt, Barry Riesenberg.

Please feel free to get in touch, send tips and news items, and let us know how we’re doing: wendy@eastcobbnews.com; phone/text 404-219-4278.

Have a great New Year’s celebration, and a great start to 2018!

The East Cobb News Digest is out!

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Catch up with top headlines from last week and get a glimpse of what’s to come in this week before Christmas. Click here to read this week’s newsletter.

PLEASE NOTE: We have been having some maintenance issues this weekend that have limited access to East Cobb News. We hope to have these problems resolved by Monday. Thanks for your patience!