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NorthEscambia.com Is Celebrating Our Second Birthday
November 3, 2009
NorthEscambia.com is celebrating our second birthday today. We want to offer you a big thanks, and offer a little insight into our little site.
We have been amazed at the response to NorthEscambia.com as it has grown into the area’s mostly widely read news source and one of the top most popular local web sites on the entire Gulf Coast.
Just a year ago, as we celebrated our first birthday, we were humbled that we stood at 2.2 million page view per month. But that has continued to grow by leaps and bounds — in October of this year, we had 6.8 million page views. That put NorthEscambia.com among the most popular websites on the Gulf Coast. And speaking of the Gulf Coast, readers of the Pensacola Independent News recently named NorthEscambia.com as the Best Blog on the Coast.
We quietly started NorthEscambia.com November 3, 2007, announcing it at the annual Walnut Hill Volunteer Fire Department Fish Fry. Over the next weeks, we expanded our coverage into Century and Molino, building a family of loyal readers like you.
It’s a diverse family.. From elementary age kids to senior adults, people across North Escambia and in surrounding areas like Atmore, Flomaton, Jay, Cantonment and Pensacola turn to NorthEscambia.com for local news.
Online news like NorthEscambia.com is the future of journalism. Television news ratings are down. Newspaper circulations are down. Online news readers are up.
Minutes after news event occurs, we can post the information you need to know. We have the technology in place to post live updates from the scene of the news.
Over the next year, we plan a few changes to improve our service to you. You’ll see more coverage from more stories. You’ll see more videos, maybe even a live video or two. An improved system of delivery for breaking news. More chances for reader participation.
Speaking of reader participation, we added the ability to comment on our stories just over a year ago. Since then, you have expressed your views with almost 20,000 comments. Thanks for joining in. If you have not yet, we encourage you to start leaving your comments on our stories by using the form at the bottom of each story.
A few more numbers we’d like to share…we’ve posted about 12,000 stories in the past two years, with several new stories posted each day. There are almost 20,000 photos in our photo galleries.
We’ve laughed with you, and we’ve cried with you over the past year. We’ve shared those happy moments with your children at their school or on their playing field. We’ve been there as communities suffered tragedies.
We’ve been at your church, your school, your club, your business and elsewhere in your community as things have happened in your lives. If it was important you, it was important to us.
Let us know how we can serve you; that’s what we are here for. Email news@northescambia.com or use our contact form.
Thank you for helping up reach our second birthday. We are humbled and feel blessed to be part of your family in this area we call North Escambia. Thank you for welcoming NorthEscambia.com into your family.
Comments
31 Responses to “NorthEscambia.com Is Celebrating Our Second Birthday”
Great work William and family. As your former next door neighbor I really appreciate this site and all the hours you put into it. We now live in north Alabama and love to check out this site to keep up with the latest news. Keep up the great work!! And a huge thank-you!
Great job, William!
Happy Birthday! William and Jane just wanted to let you know that I am proud to know both of you and think what you have done with Northescambia is great! Being one of your stories i know first hand what caring people you guys are. Thank you again and I look forward to working with guys on the Molino Christmas Parade..see ya there!
Molino Mom2
Thanks for your exposure of the Molino area!
If Molino is not THE NEWS one can always read
the latest at your site. You have done an
excellent job. Congratulations!
Thank you for this website. You’ve done more for the citizens of North Escambia over the past two years than any “local” newspaper or news station ever did for the past ten.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY & THANKS A MILLION for this great site. I don’t see how you do it but when I turn on the site there is the UP TO DATE news. Keep up the good work. We really appreciate it.
I’m your biggest fan Northescambia.com!! (Even though it took me all day to find time to finally comment) Bless you for all your hard work.
Happy 2nd Birthday! I’m so glad to have a place I can count on to keep up with the happenings in the North End. Great job, good luck and much success.
two years of top notch reporting! if there is a story in the north end of the couunty you can find it here! thanks for keeping everyone informed.
Happy 2nd Birthday… although I no longer live in the Walnut Hill area I still enjoy viewing your site and glad to see news that covers the north end and into Pensacola. I can remember the day you began helping Marilyn with the bulletins @ WHBC… Awesome job William and Jane ( and the girls)!
I started reading northescambia.com when Danny and Drew were taken in the car accident. I was hooked on the objective reporting, compassionate opinions and open advertisement for churches and community organizations.
Congratulations on a job well done!!!
Congratulations!!! Thanks to William, Jane and girls. I have changed jobs and now work and stay in Pensacola. NorthEscambia.com is my way of keeping up with happenings in North Escambia. Happy Birthday and I hope many more to come.
Keep up the great work!!!
Thanks for this invaluable service to our area.
i rely on FOX NEWS, our local FOX channel….and, WILLIAM!! to keep me abreast of all of the goings on in our country and local area…HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Happy 2nd Birthday. Glad you are out there. I go to your site first each morning.
Love the hard news you post more quickly than the local paper, besides the news of interest to the geographic area of coverage that never hits the local paper plus the soft news of interest to regular folks beyond the regular news – like the bald eagles coverage & photos. Don’t know how you manage to do this day in and day out, but do keep up the good work. Thanks again, and God Bless!
Rodney Wallace
Cantonment, FL
Thank you William and family.
This is the only site to check for new news!
Keep up the great work of keeping all of us informed.
Thanks again,
Betty
Happy Birthday
I absolutely love this site, it’s so informative about our community. Thank you and keep up the great work.
Happy Birthday, William and Jane! I don’t know of two people who deserve this success more than you two hard working ones! We love you and may God continue to bless your efforts. The Sherrills
Happy Birthday and Congratulations on two years!! Hopefully, many more to come. I, too, check this website every morning. You are up to date on the latest “happenings” in our community. The latest news stories, church and community events. It’s nice to hear the other news sources quote NorthEscambia.com!
Keep up the good work!
Happy Birthday! I sure do enjoy catching up on all the news by going to your web site.
Thanks.
Northescambia.com is what the local newspaper USED to be. PNJ’s not even relevant any more. It’s day old and copied from other sources. I noticed that even Channel 3 News is quoting northescambia.com as a news source now.
Way to go!!
Happy B’day and thanks to William/the staff for keeping us aware of the news in a timely manner! Keep up the good work!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!! Thanks for all your hard work. It is nice to be able to see whats going on at the area schools, you do a very good job of reporting for us up here in the north end
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday!! I don’t go a day without checking Northescambia several times to find out the local news. I also tell everyone that I know about northescambia so they too can enjoy it! Keep up the good work William and know that you and your wonderful site is appreciated so much especially by people on the northend of the county!
I am hooked on this site!!!
It started about a year ago and I some how stumbled onto this site one early morning. I was a smoker and would go outside with my pets in the morning and have coffee a smoke and watch the dogs. Now I read with my coffee, get my husbands breakfast the dogs have already been out and I have been smoke free for almost a year.
Thanks
CONGRATS!!! And I have to say that one of the reason’s I enjoy NorthEscambia is because you don’t allow the vulgar or racial remarks on here, you are doing a GREAT job and we are hoping for many more years.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NorthEscambia.com
Great job William, North Escambia is the first thing I click on when I sat down at my computer. I get all the news. Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
William, you’ve done a fantastic job and I look forward to continuing to read NorthEscambia.com for many more years. I advise freinds and relatives in other areas to check it out. That keeps them up to date on our local area.
Keep up the good work!!!
Thank You – I hope you make a ton of money with this. Keep up the great work.
I really enjoy this web site, right now I am working in Iraq and this is how I stay in touch with Home.
Thanks again
Go Irish
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! And many many more!!! Keep up the good work William. We’re very proud of you!!!