Welcome to the whiz bang new layout of NorthEndWaterfront.com! How are your New Year’s resolutions going? One that I made a few years ago was to liven up and refresh the NorthEndWaterfront.com website. Better late than never, so I am officially counting it as a completed 2017 resolution! Back in 2009, NorthEndWaterfront.com started as an extension of community meeting minutes. Read More…
Readers often ask me about the ins and outs of NorthEndWaterfront.com. I recently did an interview for Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers covering the launch of the site in 2009, its current status, our successes, challenges and future goals. Here are some excerpts: When did your site launch, what geography does it cover and why was it founded? Read More…
By all measures, 2015 was another great year for NorthEndWaterfront.com! Site traffic continues to grow and we added over 1,300 posts in the last twelve months. I want to express my sincere appreciation to the dozens of prolific contributors for their thoughtful articles and commentaries this year. In addition, I appreciate the submissions by our terrific community groups, Read More…
New Year’s is a time of reflection. Let’s take a look at what happened on NorthEndWaterfront.com during 2014. NorthEndWaterfront.com was viewed 2.4 million times in 2014, according to Google Analytics. Wow! Within those views were over 350,000 users (unique visitors) putting in more than 660,000 sessions (visits to the site). All those numbers are noticeably higher Read More…
We wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays as the year winds down. We will share more exciting things to come about 2015 in the near future. For now, let us simply express our appreciation to you, our loyal readers. Your neighbors, Matt and Conor Photo: Christmas Tree at the corner of Cross & Hanover Streets Read More…
Happy Birthday! NorthEndWaterfront.com is 5 years old this week! That’s right, we are leaving our toddler years and starting to grow up (just a little bit). It was May 8, 2009 when we posted our first article. The site looked a lot different back then. In fact, some would say it was barely functional. Still, we plodded Read More…
Please welcome Conor Finley as a contributing reporter on NorthEndWaterfront.com! This formal introduction is overdue since Conor has been posting regularly for the past couple of months. Still, I wanted to make it “official” since he has been so prolific that many of you have already told me how much you are enjoying his articles. Read More…
To make it official, I am thrilled to formally announce that I am taking on a new project as owner of NorthEndBoston.com. As the #1 website portal in the North End, the site serves as an information resource for visitors, residents, businesses and all those who wish to know more about our neighborhood – its Read More…
Looking back at the year that was 2012 in the North End / Waterfront, it is the time of year to list the most popular articles posted on NorthEndWaterfront.com, as measured by Google Analytics. There were over 1,500 posts on the site this year! Importantly, this list does not necessarily represent the posts that “should” Read More…
One of the more popular ways to follow North End Waterfront .com is through the free e-newsletter that delivers the latest “News & Views” to your email inbox. Earlier in the year, we enhanced the format and increased the frequency so that a summary email to goes out a daily basis (only when there are Read More…
NorthEndWaterfront.com has a real logo, finally! Coming up on the site’s third anniversary and exactly one month since introducing the new magazine grid format, I am very pleased to share the final design that is emblematic of our core mission. The logo bridges the local history of citizen journalism and the modern era of blogging, Read More…
I always look forward to picking up my copy of the North End Regional Review every Tuesday and was honored to see this heartfelt commentary from longtime neighborhood reporter, Phil Orlandella. I agree with Phil that the Regional and NorthEndWaterfront.com complement each other in bringing timely information to the community. Recently, I was interviewed by Read More…