Updates and Admin —
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 [...]
More and more local businesses are putting Front Porch Forum to use. This week, Epik (one of only 15 Google-certified web shops globally) advertised its OM Boot Camp.
Front Porch Forum helped us draw a crowd to our Online Marketing Boot Camp!
— Hannah Boucher, Epik
And very small businesses are weighing in too…
I am speechless. I love [...]
Cool local success, Epik, is hosting an Online Marketing (OM) Boot Camp in Burlington, VT, June 17-20. These are good folks who do great work, so I recommend it. Google and Champlain College are also co-hosting. They’re even offering some grants to cut the cost for select Vermont businesses. I’d be [...]
A Champlain College student recently conducted a survey of Front Porch Forum subscribers who live in Burlington, VT (about 30% of the households subscribe). About 390 responded (9%). Here are some of the results…
80% have recommended FPF to neighbors
91% would be disappointed if FPF’s service stopped
90% think FPF improves their neighborhood
60% feel that [...]
We’ve been invited to speak at many events lately. Here are some that we were honored to accept (2008)…
May 14: The World Wide Web Comes Home: How “Local Online” Is Changing Your Business at VBSR’s annual spring conference.
May 29: Fulfilling Vermont’s e-State Potential: Building Community in a “Connected Age” hosted by the Snelling Center.
June 18 [...]
The Case Foundation announced the final tallies for its Make It Your Own Awards today. We’re delighted that Front Porch Forum finished sixth out of almost 5,000 entrants, earning a grant of $10,000. A remarkable 25% of the 15,000 voters cast a ballot for Front Porch Forum. We’re especially proud of our showing [...]
When my wife, Valerie, and I created Front Porch Forum a year and a half ago, we had a simple mission in mind… to help neighbors get to know each other better and foster the sense of community at a very local level. We haven’t tried to dictate what people write about… we just wanted [...]
I guess Front Porch Forum has arrived… we’re now on YouTube!
Special thanks to CCTV Channel 17 (Meghan O’Rourke, Sam Mayfield and Lauren-Glenn Davitian) and the dozens of local folks who appear in the clip.
Essex Junction Village is developing a new website… sounds like a well-conceived leap forward for this small Vermont municipality. The committee of volunteers pulling it together are incorporating Front Porch Forum into it… on the ground floor. I look forward to seeing it soon. For now, the local paper covered the story this week.
Front Porch Forum is a small start-up business that my wife and I have self-financed to date. We’ve been blown away by the incredible reception this free service has received from the more than 7,500 local households who have subscribed so far… better than 30% of Burlington, VT, our pilot city, is on board!
We’ve [...]