Comments on: Online-Offline-Neighborood-Network http://netmap.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/online-offline-neighborood-network/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Wed, 23 May 2012 22:08:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eva Schiffer http://netmap.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/online-offline-neighborood-network/#comment-1517 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:58:29 +0000 http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/?p=656#comment-1517 Hi Christine,
That sounds like a great neighborhood to live in. I think it would be very interesting for you guys to just choose one of the projects you are considering, get together with a core group of people who are interested in at least putting a little bit of time in this and draw a map of “Who needs to be involved to make this happen and how?”. You could get to interesting results and concrete next steps in maybe a two hour session. If you are interested we can talk more about how to do this concretely.
Cheers
Eva

]]> By: Christine Gorman http://netmap.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/online-offline-neighborood-network/#comment-1516 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:24:12 +0000 http://netmap.ifpriblog.org/?p=656#comment-1516 Dear Eva,

We’re using email and some social networking (Twitter, Flickr) to help build community on our block of about 1000 residents in the Hell’s Kitchen area of NYC. A combination of flyers on the block, an email list and various social get-togethers from Happy Hours to Block Association meetings help keep us connected. We’re all volunteers so we have to keep it as direct and simple as possible.

Interestingly, a number of other blocks in our neighborhood have either started block associations or are rejuvenating older membership groups. It’s almost as if a torch is being passed.

A few projects we’re considering: 1/ capture some of the oral history of our block before it disappears and 2/ get more registered voters (of whatever stripe) on our block to actually vote 3/reach out someway to the local public high school. In fact, we have lots of ideas. The hard part is having the time and actually implementing our ideas.

Would social mapping help us in these endeavors? How time-consuming/how much buy in would we need? (Did I mention we are all volunteers with more than full-time jobs)

Christine

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