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davis_square2012-05-14 10:13 am
mzrowan.livejournal.com) wrote in davis_square2012-05-14 10:13 am
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Nextdoor.com
Hello community-minded people! I wanted to pass along word of a new site, nextdoor.com, that's trying to build social networks out of neighborhoods. Here is a New York Times article about it.
You need at least ten verified residents of a neighborhood to sign up within 21 days to get it going. The areas they mark as neighborhoods are smaller chunks than we're used to thinking in -- there are probably at least six surrounding "Davis Square".
Here are the neighborhoods for Cambridge:
https://nextdoor.com/find-neighborhood/ma/cambridge/
and Somerville:
https://nextdoor.com/find-neighborhood/ma/somerville/
The only one that I know for sure has gotten started is Powderhouse.
(I have no affliation with Nextdoor -- I just think it would be cool to have more of these functioning for our area.)
Edit: Since my house is on the border of their Spring Hill and Powderhouse neighborhoods, in last night's repeated attempts to sign up I volunteered to get Spring Hill rolling. As part of that, I was invited to define the borders of "Spring Hill". So apparently if you're the first to get the ball rolling on a neighborhood, you get to say where it is. I didn't actually end up doing that, as they then fixed the bug that was preventing me from joining Powderhouse. ;-)
You need at least ten verified residents of a neighborhood to sign up within 21 days to get it going. The areas they mark as neighborhoods are smaller chunks than we're used to thinking in -- there are probably at least six surrounding "Davis Square".
Here are the neighborhoods for Cambridge:
https://nextdoor.com/find-neighborhood/ma/cambridge/
and Somerville:
https://nextdoor.com/find-neighborhood/ma/somerville/
The only one that I know for sure has gotten started is Powderhouse.
(I have no affliation with Nextdoor -- I just think it would be cool to have more of these functioning for our area.)
Edit: Since my house is on the border of their Spring Hill and Powderhouse neighborhoods, in last night's repeated attempts to sign up I volunteered to get Spring Hill rolling. As part of that, I was invited to define the borders of "Spring Hill". So apparently if you're the first to get the ball rolling on a neighborhood, you get to say where it is. I didn't actually end up doing that, as they then fixed the bug that was preventing me from joining Powderhouse. ;-)