Ghost of Midnight

Hey, hey… should be a good event tomorrow (May 29, 2008) at Champlain College (Burlington, VT)…
Fulfilling Vermont’s e-State Potential
Building Community in a “Connected Age”
Front Porch Forum will be among several community-building efforts featured. Lewis Feldstein from New Hampshire, who co-wrote Robert Putnam’s follow up to Bowling Alone, will provide the keynote.
Another fun angle… Cathy [...]

Glenn McRea of the Snelling Center for Government posted the following on his neighborhood’s Front Porch Forum today…
The Future of Vermont is is an important opportunity coming up.  The Vermont Council on Rural Development is sponsoring a series of statewide forums on the “future” of Vermont.  Front Porch Forum is an important part of that [...]

A number of Front Porch Forum neighborhoods have lit up recently about door-to-door salespeople. In particular, young folks have been sweeping through local neighborhoods pushing magazine subscriptions and odd stories that raise suspicions. Hundreds, if not thousands, of local folks seem to be talking about this. Some people are afraid, others annoyed… [...]

Thanks to a local selectboard member for sharing her experience with Front Porch Forum in her Vermont town…
I am constantly amazed at how much good thought and work you put into making this happen. I think FPF is really having a positive effect in Hinesburg. I find it incredibly useful as an elected official to [...]

Barbara in Huntington, VT had this to say today…
Our moving sale this past weekend was a huge success at least partially due to the unpredicted good weather but mostly due to the Front Porch Forum means of communicating with neighbors. The sale also gave me the opportunity to tell neighbors about the Forum and I’ve [...]

Paul Bragiel, founder of Meetro.com, an online local social networking service that tanked recently, shares some lessons he learned today over on TechCrunch.

Here’s another article (New York Times) about online social networking services for big-city apartment buildings.

Heard from artist Katharine Montstream today on her FPF neighborhood forum…
I love Front Porch Forum. I asked for some help with adding some beads to a necklace to make it longer and BINGO, a woman right on my own street does just that. She did a great job, turned it around quickly and was very [...]

Peg from Shelburne sent a financial contribution to Front Porch Forum today along with this note of explanation…
I’m trying to put some of my “stimulus” cash into good causes since the gov’t apparently does not know how to do so.  Plus, without Front Porch Forum, I would not have had so many neighborhood folks come [...]

A Front Porch Forum member in Charlotte, VT wrote in today seeking recommendations for a housepainter… and I hope she finds what she needs.  It was her postscript that caught my eye…
PS. Thanks so much to whomever sent Steve Mack our direction for roto-tilling. He was great. It was so nice to post something one [...]