Community Management —
How do you compare what Facebook does with Twitter, YouTube, or our own Front Porch Forum? Apples and oranges in many ways. Dan Schultz at MediaShift Idea Lab provides a framework for thinking about this today. Here’s his chart…
We get a version of this question again and again… “Is it allowed to post X on Front Porch Forum?” Well… for just about any “X” the answer is an emphatic and simple YES!
The whole idea behind Front Porch Forum is to give nearby neighbors an easy way to communicate… FPF doesn’t decide the topics, [...]
danah boyd’s post feels right on target… except for the “feeling like a bitch” part… fight the good fight, danah!
… I get hundreds of emails per day that I have to directly respond to. (Hundreds more get filtered into the “will read one day” folders that get very little attention.) I do a huge amount [...]
Plenty of food for thought in this slide show from Joshua Porter (via Richard Millington)…
Designing For Social Traction
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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 [...]
Congratulations to the eight winners of the Front Porch Forum raffle to celebrate Lake Champlain’s Quadracentennial. Here are their entries and the event to which they won a pair of tickets…
If I had twenty pounds of “Willis” for every year since Samuel de Champlain saw Lake Champlain, I would have a “Willis-ton”. -Kathy Rude, Williston [...]
An interesting piece by Bernard Lunn on Read Write Web recently. In part…
… the thought that kept coming back to me is that Facebook’s bravado, its “grand vision” talk, is what you would expect from a concept-level startup. Surely by now, about 6 years into its venture, Facebook should show some substance? It is time [...]
Front Porch Forum is giving away one pair of tickets for each of the following Higher Ground concerts…
April 22 – Talib Kweli
April 28 – Slightly Stoopid
If you want a chance to win these tickets, leave a comment below that completes this thought… “I deserve to win these tickets because…”
We’ll pick one winner from the [...]
Thanks to host Jonathan Butler who interviewed me on his new radio show “The Browser” on The Radiator… fun times. We discussed Front Porch Forum, Facebook, Craigslist, local online and more. Click here to listen.
UPDATE: From Jonathan today on FPF’s Neighborhood Volunteers Forum…
I am a Volunteer at the Radiator 105.9fm, BTV’s community-access public radio station, [...]
U.K.’s Kevin Harris blogs…
Over on the Local democracy blog Dave Briggs asks, how close is local?
I’d say most people regard ‘local’ as geographically within reach, and obviously that differs individually, which is fine. If terminology is fuzzy it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s invalid. We need definitions for administrative areas (wards, cantons, parishes) but not to [...]