Social media in local public life

From E-Democracy.org

Special Invite: Are you using social media to connect local people?

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Get to know the neighbor connecting field via our analysis of the Pew Internet and American Life's Neighbors Online Study

Special neighbor connecting tools/approaches - Area Focus:

Neighbors Forums - Example in Standish Ericsson NHood (E-Democracy.org), public model
- Building inclusive online neighborhood forums in diverse communities
Front Porch Forum (VT) - private, centrally moderated spaces
Neighbors for Neighbors - Jamaica Plains, Boston - Using Ning social networking tool, public model
Harringay Online - UK - Also on Ning
Cleveland Park Washington DC YahooGroup - The grand daddy of neighborhood e-mail lists among one of the largest cluster known
ParkSlopeParents Brooklyn NYC - The original local parents e-mail list, note their main site, list of other parents forums and nearby Bocca Parents
rBlock - Berkeley - Blog about - Inactive?
Buurt Buzz - Netherlands
Verbeterdebuurt - Netherlands
Neighborhoodr - NYC neighborhood groups blogs using Tumblr
Neighborhood Notes, Portland - More online news
West Seattle Blog - Forum - Best example of online news coupled with local web forum
Hurricane Sandy - Local Online Groups Review

"Local" everywhere/many places sites:

i-Neighbors - Now commercial, formerly academic, hosts many private neighbor groups
Nation of Neighbors - Crimewatch
Next Door
Our Common Place
NeighborGoods - Started in LA
LocalBlox
Placerama
HerePin
Change by Us
LocalByUs - Hyper-local news, events, opinions and classifieds by all of us everywhere.
Ma Residence (France) - Building-based social nets
YourSquareMile UK - More, "OurSquareMile" reaction
StreetLife (UK)
Squeak (UK) - Community Safety
nOtice (UK)
MeetTheNeighbors (apartments)
SeeClickFix
FixMyStreet (UK)
StreetAdvisor - More a real estate site?
bigsociety.mobi - post or find jobs in your local community.
Topix.Net - Partners with many newspapers, anonymous, harsh environment
Outside.in
YourStreet.com
AmericanTowns.com
Neighborhoods and Your Neighbors applications on Facebook (don't really do much)
Hey Neighbor - Inactive?
BlockBoard - CLOSED/BOUGHT OUT
OhSoWe - CLOSED
RottenNeighbor.com - CLOSED
Neighbo (UK) - CLOSED
UpMyStreet (UK) - Morphed
Neighborlog - Placeblogging tool with revenue sharing - CLOSED
EveryBlock - CLOSED - More about local data on maps, added notice board, now more interaction and mission shift - Note OpenBlock spin off
NeighborRing - Alameda, CA - Closed?
GoodNeighbors.net - Family support networking, founder deceased

Open Source Technology Platforms/Initiatives

Directories:

GroupsNearYou.com - Dormant, by mySociety, but a key problem still to solve!
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 - 750+ UK sites, citizen-media oriented

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