Community Management —
Matt, on the LocalMouth blog, writes recently…
Personally, I think there’s great potential for simple online tools to bring local communities more closely together. It may be a struggle at the start to get together a critical mass of neighbours, and it may need a liberal dash of coaxing, but once you’ve got the ball rolling, [...]
Our software hiccuped today and left a single tiny posting sitting on our doorstep with no identifying label. Do you recognize this little baby? Yours?
ANOTHER NEIGHBOR JOINS FORUM - I am excited to be a member of Front Porch Forum, and I’ve heard nothing but great things about this network!
Well, welcome mystery member! And you’ll [...]
I, for one, am looking forward to November 5… that’s right, the day AFTER the big election. Front Porch Forum has been swamped with postings from citizens and elected officials alike… advocating for and against candidates and ballot measures. The State Rep. race in Chittenden 3-04, the police station building site in South Burlington and [...]
Peter Krasilovsky reports today…
Getting people to submit reviews is hard. We’ve seen incentives such as $5 coffee cards (a lot), $10 gas cards, and direct donations to charity (InsiderPages‘ current model)…
This month, Angie’s List, a paid service founded in 1995 that counts 650,000 members… launches a review campaign with the biggest review incentive we’ve seen [...]
When I read this piece in TechCrunch the other day, the similarities to Front Porch Forum’s (FPF’s) model added up.
WeAre.Us wants to help. It is a platform of 16 social networks that connect people with chronic illnesses.
FPF’s pilot is a platform of 130 online neighborhood forums.
In contrast to health platforms… which serve as a [...]
I like Joel Banner Baird’s opening in his Burlington Free Press article today…
Take notice, Burlington vandals, taggers and would-be thieves: Little Brother is watching you.
And he’s swapping notes with his (and her) neighbors — and the police — on Front Porch Forum, a community-based online network serving Chittenden County…
And he goes on to shed some [...]
The depth of community running through Burlington’s Old North End is bubbling to the surface more and more these days. As discussed previously, a number of residents used Front Porch Forum to spark a discussion about drug dealing, public safety and overall quality of life issues. Some natural community organizers among them, channeled [...]
We frequently are asked about what’s “allowed” to be posted on Front Porch Forum. Here’s a sample inquiry from this morning in one of our neighborhood forums…
For Michael - or whoever does policy decisions - I’ve been approached by a colleague to use my access to the Shelburne portion of the Front Porch Forum to [...]
We love to see neighbors “hitting singles” daily on Front Porch Forum… finding babysitters, selling bikes, connecting about car break-ins and so much more. And the weekly “doubles and triples” smacked out of the infield are a joy too… e.g., several folks using FPF to organize a couple weeks of meals in support of [...]
Managing online communities is a tricky business. I’ve seen many stories in traditional media citing examples of people at each others’ throats online. I know some elementary school PTO email groups in our area have turned so nasty that they had to be shut down. Now today I read a blog post by Simmons Buntin [...]