Comments on: BOWLING ON THE EAST SIDE, SORT OF http://www.redbankgreen.com/2007/12/building-commun.html Serving greater Red Bank, NJ - a town square for an unsquare town Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:42:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Archie Roberts http://www.redbankgreen.com/2007/12/building-commun.html/comment-page-1#comment-33626 Archie Roberts Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:21:50 +0000 http://ads.redbankgreen.com/2007/12/building-commun.html#comment-33626 <p>Jim--come back!!! We miss you!</p> <p>-Everyone in Providence</p> Jim–come back!!! We miss you!

-Everyone in Providence

]]> By: Robyn Rebollo http://www.redbankgreen.com/2007/12/building-commun.html/comment-page-1#comment-33625 Robyn Rebollo Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:10:09 +0000 http://ads.redbankgreen.com/2007/12/building-commun.html#comment-33625 <p>Red Bank is a better place with Jim and Kelli Willis living in the community. As an old friend of Jim's, I'm not surprised at his enthusiasm and commitment to the the neighborhood and greater RB area. Cheers to you Jim and all who are willing to keep it going.</p> <p>All the best,</p> <p>Robyn from Australia</p> Red Bank is a better place with Jim and Kelli Willis living in the community. As an old friend of Jim's, I'm not surprised at his enthusiasm and commitment to the the neighborhood and greater RB area. Cheers to you Jim and all who are willing to keep it going.

All the best,

Robyn from Australia

]]> By: Dan Meuse http://www.redbankgreen.com/2007/12/building-commun.html/comment-page-1#comment-33624 Dan Meuse Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:51:07 +0000 http://ads.redbankgreen.com/2007/12/building-commun.html#comment-33624 <p>As a Rhode Islander who misses Jim's brain at the state house immensely, I am so happy to have had community networking impressed onto my brain by Jim. Having moved into a very old-school neighborhood with little turnover in residents and the yell across the street to your neighbor's front porch mentality, using technology to connect people has had tangible success. We have neighborhood watch e-mails when a coyote was seen wandering around, we have babysitter trades, and when a developer wanted to buy the 9-hole golf course bordering the 'hood, we banded together, responded in the media to the proposal within 24 hrs and successfully lobbied city officials to the point where the developer withdrew the proposal.</p> <p>Neighborhoods are the connective tissue of society, and engaging neighbors to be neighborly keeps that tissue healthy and strong.</p> <p>Thanks for your example, Jim, we needed it, and more neighborhood do too!!</p> As a Rhode Islander who misses Jim's brain at the state house immensely, I am so happy to have had community networking impressed onto my brain by Jim. Having moved into a very old-school neighborhood with little turnover in residents and the yell across the street to your neighbor's front porch mentality, using technology to connect people has had tangible success. We have neighborhood watch e-mails when a coyote was seen wandering around, we have babysitter trades, and when a developer wanted to buy the 9-hole golf course bordering the 'hood, we banded together, responded in the media to the proposal within 24 hrs and successfully lobbied city officials to the point where the developer withdrew the proposal.

Neighborhoods are the connective tissue of society, and engaging neighbors to be neighborly keeps that tissue healthy and strong.

Thanks for your example, Jim, we needed it, and more neighborhood do too!!

]]> By: CHRIS http://www.redbankgreen.com/2007/12/building-commun.html/comment-page-1#comment-33623 CHRIS Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:05:50 +0000 http://ads.redbankgreen.com/2007/12/building-commun.html#comment-33623 <p>welcome back jim,</p> <p>i too am eager to see community building come full circle. i live in fair haven and can see clealry how many of our neighborhoods would stand to benefit from social networking, front porch networks and timely meetings.<br /> a river oaks newletter/the gentry/the historical district. it would be great to connect all these people and share events, opinions, wish lists, yard sales offers etc.</p> welcome back jim,

i too am eager to see community building come full circle. i live in fair haven and can see clealry how many of our neighborhoods would stand to benefit from social networking, front porch networks and timely meetings.
a river oaks newletter/the gentry/the historical district. it would be great to connect all these people and share events, opinions, wish lists, yard sales offers etc.

]]> By: Jim Willis http://www.redbankgreen.com/2007/12/building-commun.html/comment-page-1#comment-33622 Jim Willis Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:50:38 +0000 http://ads.redbankgreen.com/2007/12/building-commun.html#comment-33622 <p>Just to add a few details to RBG's (really wonderful) piece:</p> <p>Neighbors who live somewhere in the vicinity of this map: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ywxvtg" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/ywxvtg</a> can send an email to rbespn@willisbros.net with their family name and street name to participate in the newsletter. (e.g. Willis Family, Harrison Ave.) If you are a few blocks outside the boundaries of the map, send us an email anyway.</p> <p>The reason for the initial limited coverage area is to try to maintain about 150 active participants in each e-newsletter neighborhood. That 150 number isn't really arbitrary but has been suggested to be the optimum number of participants in an online/neighborhood community[1]. </p> <p>As mentioned above, I'd be really happy to work with folks in other RB neighborhoods to help them roll out e-newsletters for their areas. I'm writing (open source/free) software that facilitates producing/mailing the e-newsletter but it will be a few months before it's ready for widespread use. If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, drop me an email: jim@banyansocialtech.com Also, I'd love to hear from other people in the area who are interested in discussing technology's intersection with neighborhood issues, community-building and social capital.</p> <p>Thanks again RBG for the really great welcome to the neighborhood.</p> <p>[1] Keith Hampton at U Penn's Annenberg School has done a lot of research on this stuff. If you're interested in reading more, check out some of his publications here: <a href="http://mysocialnetwork.net/" rel="nofollow">http://mysocialnetwork.net/</a> </p> Just to add a few details to RBG's (really wonderful) piece:

Neighbors who live somewhere in the vicinity of this map: http://tinyurl.com/ywxvtg can send an email to rbespn@willisbros.net with their family name and street name to participate in the newsletter. (e.g. Willis Family, Harrison Ave.) If you are a few blocks outside the boundaries of the map, send us an email anyway.

The reason for the initial limited coverage area is to try to maintain about 150 active participants in each e-newsletter neighborhood. That 150 number isn't really arbitrary but has been suggested to be the optimum number of participants in an online/neighborhood community[1].

As mentioned above, I'd be really happy to work with folks in other RB neighborhoods to help them roll out e-newsletters for their areas. I'm writing (open source/free) software that facilitates producing/mailing the e-newsletter but it will be a few months before it's ready for widespread use. If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, drop me an email: jim@banyansocialtech.com Also, I'd love to hear from other people in the area who are interested in discussing technology's intersection with neighborhood issues, community-building and social capital.

Thanks again RBG for the really great welcome to the neighborhood.

[1] Keith Hampton at U Penn's Annenberg School has done a lot of research on this stuff. If you're interested in reading more, check out some of his publications here: http://mysocialnetwork.net/

]]> By: Boris http://www.redbankgreen.com/2007/12/building-commun.html/comment-page-1#comment-33621 Boris Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:35:26 +0000 http://ads.redbankgreen.com/2007/12/building-commun.html#comment-33621 <p>Good luck to Jim! I hope this community-building idea works and catches on in other neighborhoods. </p> Good luck to Jim! I hope this community-building idea works and catches on in other neighborhoods.

]]> By: Michael Wood-Lewis http://www.redbankgreen.com/2007/12/building-commun.html/comment-page-1#comment-33620 Michael Wood-Lewis Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:10:13 +0000 http://ads.redbankgreen.com/2007/12/building-commun.html#comment-33620 <p>Congratulations Jim! We're thrilled that Front Porch Forum's experience is helping a community-building effort in another part of the country. We're up to 30% of the Burlington, VT households on board now. All told, we're hosting 130 online neighborhood forums in our metro area... people make great use of them.</p> Congratulations Jim! We're thrilled that Front Porch Forum's experience is helping a community-building effort in another part of the country. We're up to 30% of the Burlington, VT households on board now. All told, we're hosting 130 online neighborhood forums in our metro area… people make great use of them.

]]> By: Tom L http://www.redbankgreen.com/2007/12/building-commun.html/comment-page-1#comment-33619 Tom L Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:09:19 +0000 http://ads.redbankgreen.com/2007/12/building-commun.html#comment-33619 <p>Jim's a great addition to Red Bank. Keep an eye out for him; I expect we'll be hearing a lot from him down the road. Good job RedBankGreen. It is great finding out about new and interesting people in town.</p> Jim's a great addition to Red Bank. Keep an eye out for him; I expect we'll be hearing a lot from him down the road. Good job RedBankGreen. It is great finding out about new and interesting people in town.

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