Continuing to review my RSS feed from Bruce Hoppe I found a link to a very interesting tool – i-neighbors. As the site says, “I-neighbors is a FREE online community that connects people to neighbors in their local community. Unlike other websites that allow global, national, or city-wide communication, I-Neighbors links members of a single neighborhood, defined by the people that create them. I-neighbors was created by a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). These services were designed to encourage neighborhood participation and to help people form local social ties.”
I joined my neighborhood (or actually the closest one) and found reviews of local businesses, people to connect with, the opportunity to initiate and/or participate in polls on the neighbors, the ability to print out a flyer to give the neighbors, photos – with ability to add my own, upcoming events and more. My neighborhood is still very much under development and it will be interesting to see how this evolves. Go find the set-up for your neighborhood or start one for it
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