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Local reporters for traditional media outlets use Front Porch Forum frequently to find leads for news stories… makes sense… neighbors connect with neighbors about all sorts of goings on on their FPF neighborhood forum as a first step. Items often show up there first.
Here are a few recent examples…
Sustainable living in the suburbs, June 21, [...]
Occasionally, someone will post a request on his/her FPF neighborhood forum the same day as a neighbor offers a solution to that request… unbeknown to each other. So the next issue of their neighborhood forum is published with the problem followed by the solution… all neat and tidy. Gotta love it. Here’s today’s simple example [...]
Steve Yelvington posted today…
Knowledge@Wharton has an interview with Joe Kraus, director of product management at Google, in which he highlights the importance of social interaction on the Web:
“So, the killer apps that have really worked on the web have always been about connecting people to one another. So, whether it is instant messaging and e-mail [...]
Peter Krasilovsky covers a Boston website today, CitySquares. Many interesting points…
Boston-based CitySquares, which just celebrated its second anniversary, is getting about 70,000 unique visitors per month and now has a base of 700 advertisers, averaging $1,200 per year, reports CEO Ben Saren… Roughly a third of the existing advertiser base is in the downtown [...]
Andrew posted this request on his FPF neighborhood forum the other day…
Hi - My wife and I have tickets to see Mocean Worker at Nectars, June 4th. He/they is/are one of my favorite artists and I was pumped that he’s coming to the Discover Jazz festival this year. However, it’s a Wednesday night, school isn’t [...]
Heard from artist Katharine Montstream today on her FPF neighborhood forum…
I love Front Porch Forum. I asked for some help with adding some beads to a necklace to make it longer and BINGO, a woman right on my own street does just that. She did a great job, turned it around quickly and was very [...]
A Front Porch Forum member in Charlotte, VT wrote in today seeking recommendations for a housepainter… and I hope she finds what she needs. It was her postscript that caught my eye…
PS. Thanks so much to whomever sent Steve Mack our direction for roto-tilling. He was great. It was so nice to post something one [...]
Perhaps the most important neighborhood posting ever made on Front Porch Forum came through in Williston today…
“Hello - We just moved to the area and heard the ice cream truck! Is there anyone who knows it’s regular route, and/or how we can get him to stop for our little one! We live on N. Brownell [...]
Of course, not all Front Porch Forum postings are weighty, as discussed in the previous entry. Here’s one just in from Karyl in Huntington…
“Dear friends - Looking to borrow a mask of Richard Nixon. Short notice! I’m catering a ‘Big Lebowski’ party at a bowling alley and would love for Tricky Dick to make an [...]
Sometimes it’s the little things that open up communication among neighbors. Here’s a message from Linda and George that was just posted on an until-now-sleepy Essex Junction, VT, neighborhood forum…
“Many thanks to all of our neighbors for helping with the search for our indoor black cat. So many of you called to say you [...]