Archives for June 2008
A Front Porch Forum subscriber in Burlington’s Hill/Old North End area wrote in today for her husband and herself…
Congratulations! Thanks to the interaction on Front Porch Forum, Bill and I had an amazing exchange with Kesha Ram and Chris Pearson regarding their candidacy for state representative. Listening to them both was A REAL LESSON IN [...]
Wow! An amazing 10,000 local subscribers to Front Porch Forum now… out of about 50,000 households in our pilot area of Chittenden County, VT… with 100s more joining every month. And most of those members came to us through word-of-mouth… neighbor telling neighbor.
Any resident of Chittenden County may register at http://frontporchforum.com, while others can go [...]
Providing less than 24 hours advanced warning, Bonnie in Huntington posted the following the other day…
Hi Neighbors - My car died yesterday, and for the first time in years I’m without car. I must admit it’s liberating, but the only trouble is, that I need to get to work tomorrow, Saturday, June 28. I was [...]
People often ask… “what do the neighbors write about on Front Porch Forum?” Well, it’s challenging to boil it down to a simple list (although it would have to include missing cats and bikes). So here’s a batch of message headlines taken from the last week of postings on FPF’s 130 online neighborhood [...]
A posting today from Gary to his neighbors in the FPF Richmond East Neighborhood Forum…
Friday night around 7pm, I was at the junction of the Huntington Winooski Rivers, just playing in the water with my kids. All of the sudden, 4 people were on the Cochran Road bridge yelling and screaming at us frantically. [...]
Penny from Burlington’s Hill area shared today…
The coolest thing happened yesterday evening. I had sent out my first Front Porch Forum bartering request — 15 lbs of grapes for 15 lbs of rhubarb — and a nice couple from Summit Ridge delivered rhubarb to my door yesterday evening!!! YAY, I’ll make sure they get their [...]
People often ask how Front Porch Forum has grown so rapidly in such a short amount of time… it’s almost all word-of-mouth. Neighbor tells neighbor. Here’s a posting from a South Burlington neighborhood forum today that serves as a good example…
Re the notice about the appraisal increase… one of my neighbors did receive a notice [...]
Front Porch Forum subscribers frequently are surprised to learn that this free service was created right here in our corner of Vermont. It’s no secret… our start-up story has gotten decent local media coverage.
Here’s today’s example from a relatively long-time and active subscriber from Essex Junction…
First of all — will someone please tell me [...]
Steven Clift provokes some thought with his piece today at MediaShift. .. part of the Personal Democracy Forum 2008. In part…
After almost two decades of “e-democracy,” we seem content with simply accelerating online what’s already wrong with politics. We raise money online to support more political television ads, we “democratize” national partisan punditry through blogs [...]
Local reporters for traditional media outlets use Front Porch Forum frequently to find leads for news stories… makes sense… neighbors connect with neighbors about all sorts of goings on on their FPF neighborhood forum as a first step. Items often show up there first.
Here are a few recent examples…
Sustainable living in the suburbs, June 21, [...]