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John Wonderlich at Sunlight Foundation quotes Steven Clift today…
When I was a child and my father had cancer, I remember neighbors coming to our assistance in our time of need. Today, with modern life keeping neighbors as strangers, we must use these new tools to break down barriers to community. You deserve the right to [...]
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, [...]
Matt Ryan reported for the Burlington Free Press today…
Vermont campaign signs along Vermont 15 in front of the Essex Junction Shopping Center have prompted a departing state legislator to call on citizens to boycott businesses within the center — even though the businesses’ managers said they had nothing to do with the signs.
Rep. Peter Hunt, [...]
Burlington Police Officer Mike Hemond posted an update on Front Porch Forum today about a well-publicized vandalism case (this blog, Seven Days and Burlington Free Press).
Hello everyone, it’s been a pretty steady late summer / fall for me, so I’ve not been able to post on the Forum for a bit. I’d just like to [...]
What a humbling couple of days. I’ve just returned home from Rural TeleCon 2008. Yesterday I led a rich discussion about local community building via Front Porch Forum with a room full of telecom professionals, and this evening Front Porch Forum collected two wonderful honors…
First, the RTC People’s Choice Award — Most Innovative, which included [...]
“Vermont public relations chick - Rachel Carter (www.rachelcarterpr.com)” offers “5 Free & Quick Ways to Promote Your Business” today. And number five is…
Join your local Front Porch Forum and let your neighbors know who you are and what your business is! (www.frontporchforum.org)
Yes sir… and many have and do. Thanks Rachel.
Front Porch Forum is two years old! Thanks to everyone helping this local invention grow… 11,000 local household subscribing and counting. Recognition continues to roll in… PBS just included Front Porch Forum on its short-list of great examples of local community building online, and we’re a finalist for a national award from the Rural Telecom [...]
Mark Glaser, New Media Expert for PBS, offers examples of the internet serving local communities…
Everyblock.com
Front Porch Forum
Spot.us
That’s heady company for FPF… two nationally known Knight Foundation grant recipients. Everyblock and Spot.Us are both exciting projects. See Mark’s comments for yourself…
I always learn something valuable, so it’s a pleasure to converse with an audience about Front Porch Forum. So I’m grateful for the invitations to address these upcoming events. Please come!
• Connecting with your Essex Neighbors using Front Porch Forum
Brownell Library, Essex Junction Village, Lincoln St
Sept. 15, 2008, 7:00 PM
• Building Community [...]
When neighbors start heating up over a topic through Front Porch Forum, our local traditional media often picks up on it and writes a story. Some issues are of larger public concern, e.g., violence, multi-million-dollar development projects, etc., while others are more modest. Take today’s story by Suzanne Podhaizer in Seven Days: Right to Bite: [...]