College Students —
A guest post today from Front Porch Forum’s most recent hire, Jamie Seiffer. Take it away, Jamie…
For those of you familiar with De La Soul, y’all know that three is the magic number. For those of you unfamiliar, check this out. Three is the magic number for us because that’s how many pairs of tickets [...]
Jeff Jarvis blogged about his latest ideas in “hyper local”… some interesting points, including the comments. Here’s Bob Wyman…
The obvious question is: “Why isn’t Front Porch Forum integrated into the BurlingtonFreePress.com site or the sites of the New York Times, WSJ or other newspapers that serve those in your community?”…
From Sarah on the FPF ONE East Neighborhood Forum this evening…
To our wonderful neighbors: thank you so much for all of your help in finding our lost cat, Calvin. It was one of you readers who eventually found him for us (only a block away from our house!), and I am so appreciative to have [...]
We tend to get high marks from local college students… a little surprising coming from the “Facebook Generation”… we love to hear it. And the other day we had a rush of 200 UVM off-campus undergrads register in response to this note from their student government president…
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Rich Gordon writes today about his journalist-programmer program at Northwestern’s journalism school. He’s looking for a project idea…
For more than half a century, newspaper readership has been declining – and so have a variety of other indicators of civic and community engagement, such as participation in PTA’s, membership in bowling leagues and turnout on Election [...]
Local college professors invite me to address their students occasionally about Front Porch Forum. The classes range from social work to entrepreneur-ism to tech. And I usually get a little positive feedback, but sometimes it’s hard to tell if the message is getting through.
So I was especially pleased to get this wonderful note from Jennifer [...]
Got this nice note from Jamie at the University of Vermont today…
I absolutely LOVE what you’re doing. I think that Front Porch Forum is one of the best things to happen as a result of the internet. Everyone actually reads the emails and it’s a great way to connect with folks that you otherwise would [...]
After witnessing boatloads of goodwill among neighbors through Front Porch Forum, I thought I had seen it all. Well… can you guess the response to this posting?
Hello – I am a UVM student about to spend my first summer in Burlington. All year long I’ve been dreaming of joining a CSA for the first time. [...]
Gotta love Dilbert…
“Facebook is just a game. That’s it, that’s all.” So says Sebastien Provencher. Thank goodness for the holidays and their tendency to break people out of their ruts and send them back home for a bit of grounding…
During the Holidays, I met with my friends and family multiple times and one topic of conversation that [...]