Does your community have an email list? My guess is that the majority of neighborhoods use a list-serve to communicate among residents, since they have been reliably available for sometime and free through online services like Google and Yahoo.
The Mordecai neighborhood under the leadership of Reid Serozi made the switch from Google Groups to Nextdoor.com. Here’s what Reid has to say about the experience.
Since we launched Nextdoor we have experienced an explosion of individual conversations among neighbors. I had no idea that we would see so much productive chatter once we moved away from the traditional one giant conversation at a time method that Google Groups and other traditional mailing lists facilitate.
To read more about what Reid has to say and to learn about how best to deploy Nextdoor.com in your downtown neighborhood jump over to his blog post . . Nextdoor Explosion.
In addition to Mordecai, downtown neighborhoods that have begun experimenting or using Nextdoor.com include: Boylan Heights, Cameron Village, Five Points, Glenwood-Brooklyn, Glenwood South and Rosengarten Park.