Politics —
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, [...]
The people of Westford, VT continue to do amazing things with Front Porch Forum… lots of voices weighing in about lots of topics. Here’s a comment about one topic gleaned from a blog today…
Principals like feedback, right? Well, we need feedback but it can be difficult to deal with at times. I’ve been thinking a [...]
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 [...]
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.
Local traditional media makes extensive use of Front Porch Forum. In the past 24 hours the following three stories appeared, each based in-part on an FPF posting.
First, from Bianca Slota, WCAX (video clip)…
Residents in a north Colchester neighborhood are fed up with a recent rise in home burglaries and they are banding together to keep [...]
Pete Peterson wrote a solid piece about Front Porch Forum for Personal Democracy Forum… published today. Please check it out and leave a comment there. Thanks Pete and Micah!
Thanks to host Jonathan Butler who interviewed me on his new radio show “The Browser” on The Radiator… fun times. We discussed Front Porch Forum, Facebook, Craigslist, local online and more. Click here to listen.
UPDATE: From Jonathan today on FPF’s Neighborhood Volunteers Forum…
I am a Volunteer at the Radiator 105.9fm, BTV’s community-access public radio station, [...]
The lead up to this year’s Town Meeting Day was a busy time for the 130 FPF online neighborhood forums. Some folks groused about all of the political postings… and then there was Betsey’s response from Burlington’s New North End…
Thank you to the voters of Burlington for turning out on Town Meeting Day. What a [...]
With each passing election, candidates for local and state-level office use Front Porch Forum more and more. We’ve been evolving our policy on this, centered on serving our subscribers’ interest and not giving incumbents or any other class an unfair advantage.
Many candidates are taking advantage of our posting policy leading up to the March 3 [...]