AFP offers new web. marketing, advertising class

Chris Graham

Augusta Free Press LLC is offering its next Building the Machine 101 web, marketing and advertising class in Harrisonburg on Thursday, May 24. The 1-4:30 p.m. class will cover the basics of building business websites, business Facebook pages and blogging and public relations for business. The class will also provide an overview of how to…

Virginia Tourism Corporation comes to Harrisonburg for ‘Your Personal Help Desk’

Harrisonburg Tourism & Visitor Services has coordinated a two-day event with Virginia Tourism Corporation. “Your Personal Help Desk” will take place March 28-29, 2012 at the Hardesty-Higgins House Visitor Center. Staff from Virginia Tourism Corporation will conduct personalized sessions with local tourism-based businesses. These private, one-hour sessions will give business owners and operators the opportunity…

Virginia gets big fat ‘F’ on transparency report

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State governments are largely doing a poor job delivering transparency and accountability to their citizenry. Meanwhile, statehouses remain ripe for corruption and self-dealing. This is the discouraging picture that emerges from the State Integrity Investigation, a first-of-its-kind, data-driven assessment of transparency, accountability and anti-corruption mechanisms in all 50 states. In the ranking, not a single…