MacArthur Fellows —
“May I post a political item on my Front Porch Forum?”
We get that question all the time here at FPF… especially leading up to Town Meeting Day and November elections.
The answer, of course, is “YES!” Some of our members are disappointed to hear that. They express a desire to keep FPF conversation “polite,” which therefore [...]
From Joanne today in South Burlington, in response to recent media coverage of Front Porch Forum…
I live in one of the neighborhoods served by Front Porch Forum (FPF), the electronic neighborhood networking tool described by Bill McKibben in the most recent issue of Yankee Magazine.
The article described how useful FPF is for finding lost cats, [...]
Carrie Leber writes on The Christian Science Monitor website about the challenges of living with difficult neighbors. Her bottom line…
Maybe Internet forums, not fences, are what make good neighbors.
After discussing her own hard-to-live-with neighbors, she says…
Ironically, rather than face-to-face discussions, it may be that the Internet is the best source of info about potentially [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Update: Just heard from Knight… guess our proposal is back in the running. More later.
Original post: Regrettably, the Knight News Challenge judges weren’t swayed by Front Porch Forum’s proposal enough to take us beyond the second round of judging this year. We’re glad that we made it into the top 10% of thousands of project [...]
Thanks to the Burlington Free Press for including a Front Porch Forum co-founder in its list of the decade’s Vermonters “who know how to get things done!”
UPDATE: Now the Freeps has the story online too.
Pew’s new report, “Social Isolation and New Technology: How the internet and mobile phones impact Americans’ social networks,” really is required reading for those interested in the intersection of local community building and online tools. (See other posts for additional points: one and two.)
One of the most interesting sections vis-a-vis Front Porch Forum concerns neighborhood-level [...]
In trying to digest the conclusions and supporting evidence presented in “Social Isolation and New Technology: How the internet and mobile phones impact Americans’ social networks,” I’m getting a little carsick. It’s a great ride, but I’m having trouble with some of the unexpected hairpin turns.
The authors of this Pew study start with broad conclusions [...]