The Civic Improvement Network

*Why Neighborland could be a platform for citizen-led civic improvement:

Matthew Hall <https://twitter.com/#!/Hallm13>
OpenPlans <http://openplans.org/>

Neighborland <https://neighborland.com/home/current> is not a “Facebook for
cities,” as Grist<http://grist.org/cities/facebook-for-cities-a-social-network-for-neig...>
suggested,
or even really a social network in the traditional sense of an online venue
where people can gather and share for nearly any purpose.  The virtual
community bulletin board for civic improvement ideas, founded in New
Orleans at the Civic Center <http://civiccenter.cc/> creative studio and
soon rolling out in Houston and Boulder, is much more focused and
business-like than Facebook, Twitter, or even LinkedIn.  Neighborland is
not a place to share cute photos or interesting stories from a given
locality, it is a place to get down to the serious business of collectively
improving physical communities and in that respect it is almost an
evolution from social networks; beyond networks of sharing and into
networks of collaborative improvement.
*

Read More <The Civic Improvement Network Why Neighborland could be a
platform for citizen-led civic improvement: Matthew Hall OpenPlans
Neighborland is not a “Facebook for cities,” as Grist suggested, or even
really a social network in the traditional sense of an online venue where
people can gather and share for nearly any purpose. The virtual community
bulletin board for civic improvement ideas, founded in New Orleans at the
Civic Center creative studio and soon rolling out in Houston and Boulder,
is much more focused and business-like than Facebook, Twitter, or even
LinkedIn. Neighborland is not a place to share cute photos or interesting
stories from a given locality, it is a place to get down to the serious
business of collectively improving physical communities and in that respect
it is almost an evolution from social networks; beyond networks of sharing
and into networks of collaborative improvement. Read More>