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Rich Gordon writes today about his journalist-programmer program at Northwestern’s journalism school. He’s looking for a project idea…
For more than half a century, newspaper readership has been declining - and so have a variety of other indicators of civic and community engagement, such as participation in PTA’s, membership in bowling leagues and turnout on Election [...]
Thanks to Sally Pollak who wrote an excellent feature article about Front Porch Forum for the Burlington Free Press yesterday.
Photo credit: Alison Redlich, Free Press
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, [...]
The Wall Street Journal had some fun at the expense of the Washington Post today with this headline…
Big Daily’s ‘Hyperlocal’ Flop LoudounExtra.com Fails to Give Lift to Washington Post
Others jumped in… Outside.in CEO Mark Josephson and one of his backers, VC Fred Wilson.
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 [...]
People’s use of Front Porch Forum has been making the news recently. You can watch, listen and read the coverage on our media page. And while the national and state-wide attention from PBS.org, Wall Street Journal, Morning Edition VPR, etc. is wonderful, I also love the small local reporting.
For example, today the United [...]
We hear this kind of thing all the time, but we seldom capture it in writing. Thanks Wolfgang!
“Just wanted to let you know that we sold our Minivan today to a neighbor through Front Porch Forum. We had more people expressing interest and more people showing up to look at the van who found [...]
I’m excited about a panel that I’ll be part of at the annual conference of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility. Here’s a draft of what to expect…
The World Wide Web Comes Home
How “Local Online” Is Changing Your Business
Richard Donnelly, Burlington Telecom
Christopher Grotke and Lise LePage, iBrattleboro.com
Chris Middings, Seventh Generation and Champlain College
Paula Routly, Seven [...]
Several compelling bits from J.D. Lasica’s posting at PBS.org/MediaShift/IdeaLab today…
As newspaper analyst Dave Morgan observed last year: “Ad revenue in most large newspaper markets will keep dropping 3-5% per year for the next five years. Real circulation — excluding the tons of papers dumped on schools, hotels and the constantly-churning “free ten-week trial” — will [...]
When I was a kid, I was a paperboy starting in 2nd grade and on into junior high. It was a modest afternoon route handed down through my older brothers. Took about an hour on my bike (I’d see how far into the route I could get each day riding no-handed). Had [...]