Social media in local public life
From E-Democracy.org
Special Invite: Are you using social media to connect local people?
- Join the Locals Online community of practice and note E-Democracy.org's Inclusive Social Media project.
Special neighbor connecting tools/approaches:
- Neighborhood Issues Forums - Example in Standish Ericsson NHood (E-Democracy.Org)
- Building Inclusive Social Media with Issues Forums in diverse communities
- Outreach Process (follow links to other posts)
- Fighting Crime
- Government Consultation
- Story from Cass Lake - Small Town/Indian Reservation Area
- Front Porch Forum (VT)
- Neighborlog - Placeblogging tool with revenue sharing
- i-Neighbors - Academic
- Neighbors for Neighbors - Jamaica Plains, Boston - Using Ning social networking tool
- Harringay Online - UK - Also on Ning
- rBlock - Berkeley - Blog about - Inactive?
- GoodNeighbors.net - Family support networking
- NeighborGoods - LA
- Buurt Buzz - Netherlands
- Verbeterdebuurt - Netherlands
- NeighborRing - Alameda, CA
"Local" everywhere sites:
- Topix.Net
- Outside.in
- YourStreet.com
- AmericanTowns.com
- RottenNeighbor.com - Closed
- Neighborhoods and Your Neighbors applications on Facebook (don't really do much)
- MeetTheNeighbors(apartments)
- SeeClickFix
- FixMyStreet (UK)
- UpMyStreet (UK)
- Neighbo (UK)
- Ma Residence (France) - Building-based social nets
- StreetBank (UK)
Directories:
- GroupsNearYou.com
- Placeblogger
- J-Lab Citizen Media Directory
- Example neighborhood forums - Includes a number of active neighborhood e-mail lists
- Talk About Local (UK) - Proposing to cover 100 UK communities - see example links on left and their Unconference with videos
- Openly Local - Hyperlocal Sites Directory - 250+ UK sites, citizen-media oriented
Other
- Neighbors Online report - Analysis on Pew Internet report
- Using Technology for Community Building - Webinar
- A related presentation and in-depth webinars with audio are available on this topic from E-Democracy.org.
- Minnesota Voices Unconference
- Local 2.0 Blog UK and Young Foundation Project
- Community Voices - UK Media Trust - Social inclusion agenda
- Neighbourhoods Blog UK
- Prof. Keith Hampton's blog (w/ i-neighbors)
- Our Blocks: Building Blocks for Building Communities - Summarizes material on building community in neighborhoods; an all-volunteer project
- Networked Neighbourhoods - London, UK
- Social by Social UK - Includes relevant groups, also see Digital Engagment and the UK social technology for local communities wiki
- Sites tagged "neighborhoods" by Steven Clift
- Caring Bridge - A site that helps people provide support to those in illness ... offers insights on mutual support and benefit potential
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