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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 [...]
Local college professors invite me to address their students occasionally about Front Porch Forum. The classes range from social work to entrepreneur-ism to tech. And I usually get a little positive feedback, but sometimes it’s hard to tell if the message is getting through.
So I was especially pleased to get this wonderful note from Jennifer [...]
Seth Godin’s recent post rings true to our experience with Front Porch Forum to date…
The irony of the web is that the tactics work really quickly… But the strategy still takes forever. The strategy is the hard part, not the tactics.
… If you stick at stuff that bores them, it accrues. Drip, drip, drip you [...]
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
Wow! An amazing 10,000 local subscribers to Front Porch Forum now… out of about 50,000 households in our pilot area of Chittenden County, VT… with 100s more joining every month. And most of those members came to us through word-of-mouth… neighbor telling neighbor.
Any resident of Chittenden County may register at http://frontporchforum.com, while others can go [...]
Paul Bragiel, founder of Meetro.com, an online local social networking service that tanked recently, shares some lessons he learned today over on TechCrunch.
Amen to this. From Kara Swisher at Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital…
I conducted a little experiment among the more than 100 folks gathered for the wedding, all of whom were quite intelligent, armed with all kinds of the latest devices (many, many people had iPhones, for example) and not sluggish about technology.
They were [...]
My old friend Lars is up to some new tricks in central Vermont…
I am asking everyone I know to support a new effort in Montpelier: the Onion River Exchange’s Pecha Kucha Night. The idea is pretty cool, and really simple:
- Two rounds of presenters
- Each presenter has 6 minutes and 20 slides with which to [...]
In the excitement around Front Porch Forum’s selection for the big national Make It Your Own Awards, I neglected to share our new video clip! You can see it below, on YouTube, on the contest site, and on local access TV (schedules below)…
Special thanks to CCTV Channel 17 (Meghan O’Rourke, Sam Mayfield and Lauren-Glenn [...]
Ahmed Farooq writes an interesting piece today about not taking investment money for his local review site called iBegin Source. He says, in part,…
When we had originally launched iBegin, I think about a dozen VCs came to us in the first 3 months or so. They all liked the idea of local social search, and [...]