Bill McKibben covers FPF for Yankee Magazine

Amazing!  It’s not every day that an author of Bill McKibben’s statue writes a feature story about Front Porch Forum… let alone with a subtitle of “How New England can save the world!”  But there it is… in the March/April 2010 issue of Yankee Magazine.  Here’s a snippet…
Susan Comerford, a longtime community organizer and now [...]

“Best advocacy tool in town!”

How many people have we heard from who want to blast their political message across a wide swath of Front Porch Forum?  Too many to count.
It makes sense.  FPF has a huge local audience and Town Meeting Day is March 2… less than a week away.  Candidates, political parties, advocacy groups… they all are working [...]

HCR235 Honors FPF Members!

Thanks to VT State Rep. Suzi Wizowaty and 23 co-sponsors for honoring Front Porch Forum users with HCR235!
House Concurrent Resolution 235
Congratulating Front Porch Forum on Its 10th Anniversary

Offered by: Representatives Wizowaty of Burlington, Aswad of Burlington, Bissonnette of Winooski, Donovan of Burlington, Frank of Underhill, Head of South Burlington, Heath of Westford, Jerman of Essex, [...]

FPF in the ONE

From a family who makes the most out of FPF…
As Front Porch Forum is high on our list of FPF we appreciate about this neighborhood and this community, we decided to make a financial contribution to support this very worthy cause.   We encourage you to do the same in whatever amount fits your budget.  Clearly [...]

Social Change 2.0

I had the pleasure of introducing David Gershon’s work to Portland, Oregon more than a dozen years ago.  So Mike Lindberg’s quote about David’s new book caught my eye…
“Social Change 2.0 exhilarates. David Gershon has not just laid out a compelling and coherent blueprint for social change, but the vividly written stories he shares make [...]

Engaging Citizen 2.0… FPF’s glad to be there Sept. 9

What an honor!  Front Porch Forum is headed to Washington, DC on Sept. 9 to participate in an event called Engaging Citizen 2.0: From Obama to the “MyFaceTube” Revolution, How is Social Media Reshaping Civic Engagement? We’ll be in the Library of Congress with several luminaries of the “using social media for civic engagement” crowd, [...]

Pew looks at civic participation and the internet

From an Ars Technica post today…
As they do offline, the more affluent tend to dominate civic and political life on the Internet. But a new Pew study suggests that could change.
Click here for the full piece.

FPF anything but “passive” according to users…

Beth’s comment to an earlier blog post here deserves to be featured… wow…
I am on the Westford Front Porch Forum and look at it as the best way to keep up with neighbors, get community information, form new community connections, and have healthy, respectful debates about local issues. In the year and a half I [...]

Free Press: “Front Porch Forum… [is] largely passive.” Not.

In classic form, the Burlington Free Press published an unsigned editorial today following up a recent piece of its reporting.  Topic?  Local government should use online social media…
More communities throughout Vermont should make better use of social media if only to keep residents informed and engaged. More people are turning to online services such as [...]

Local social media used by local government

Matt Sutkoski writes in the Burlington Free Press today about how local governments in Vermont are using — or NOT using — Facebook and Twitter.  And he takes a look at another tool of choice… Front Porch Forum.
Vermont towns and cities have not joined the herd to embrace social media sites such as Facebook and [...]

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