Howdy, all! Sometime last month, someone in my neighborhood created a community for my neighborhood on Nextdoor. Nextdoor is essentially a community-ran website for neighborhoods where citizens can post classifieds, neighborhood events, local news, etc. We currently have 23 households signed up, and I'm thinking that it might actually be useful for us. I've been posting information to my neighborhood such as local elections, neighborhood trick-or-treat times, city council contact information, etc. When you post, you can limit your posts to just your neighborhood, a selection of nearby neighborhoods, or the neighborhood "leads" who act as moderators and community organizers.
If you live in a neighborhood and want to help out by making your community moore informed and active, I suggest going to nextdoor.com and creating one. The nextdoor team lists a number of items they plan on developing like adding community gardens or other points of interest. I'm interested to see what tools they come up with for local government engagement. There is a mobile app for iOS and Android, and the android one is very usable. If someone posts to the neighborhood I get a notification, and there is also an option when posting to push out an alert SMS to everyone if something urgent happens. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
