We’ve only got a few more days until the Nextdoor pilot expires in Springboro. Check out how New York City is using it to connect neighborhoods in their city.
I’ve written in the past about efforts to use 21st century technological tools to enhance neighbors’ connections with each other, the sort that are far less common today than in the 1960s or 1970s.
Nextdoor, a leader in this space, has partnered with NYC Mayor Bloomberg to provide Nextdoor services in 1800 existing NYC neighborhoods. It’s a win-win partnership. The city gets a platform that enables them to pinpoint messages that need to get out to certain neighborhoods (such as upcoming events, programs, news, emergency bulletins), and NYC through NYCGov will let New Yorkers know how they can better connect with their neighbors through the Nextdoor platform. (These Nextdoor networks are secure so users have to verify they actually live in a neighborhood to join and users get to control what of this information is public and what is shared privately between neighbors.)
Nextdoor makes it far easier…
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