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My Neighbourhoods has been reviewed over at The Good Web Guide. The review is extremely positive and summarises by saying:
The site is simple to use and registration is free. A great idea and useful tool, everybody needs good neighbours, everybody needs MyNeighbourhoods.co.uk.
Read the full review on The Good Web Guide web site.
Today I was asked by a Belfast-based radio station, U 105.8, to speak about My Neighbourhoods following our launch a couple of months ago. The interview took place on their Drive Time show and covered the social and community building aspect of My Neighbourhoods, as well the potential for helping local crime and improving the areas in which we live. The station was very interested in how the site seems to have reversed the trend for using technology to communicate with people across the globe by putting you in touch with your neighbours.
It’s excellent coverage for us and I hope to have the podcast available for download soon.
Living Streets have kindly written a piece about My Neighbourhoods (read the full article here). It’s good to get some exposure on sites that actively try to make a difference to neighbourhood life in the UK.
More about Living Streets:
We are the champions of streets and public spaces for people on foot. We work on practical projects to create safe, vibrant and healthy streets for all.
In the future, we are planning partnerships with both government and commercial companies of this kind to provide everything you need for your area through My Neighbourhoods.
Our new site launch, My Neighbourhoods, has been reviewed over at TechCrunch UK. Sam Sethi dubs it “community networking”, which describes what we are trying to do with My Neighbourhoods perfectly. Like Sam, a couple of other users mentioned the subscription charge as a barrier to entry. As a result of this feedback, we’ve removed the subscription fee so My Neighbourhoods is completely free! The idea is to develop My Neighbourhoods into exactly what users want from a “community networking” site.
I’m happy to say we’ve just launched our first foray into social networking. My Neighbourhoods is a UK-based online community that provides members with an easy way of getting to know their neighbours and people in the area they live, as well as finding out more about a local area and selling online through classifieds listings. The site aims to make both the online and physical community a bit more neighbourly.
The site has launched in open beta (meaning there may be a few small bugs). By launching this way we are hoping our users will drive the development and functionality by telling us what they want for future releases. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any comments or questions.
http://www.myneighbourhoods.co.uk/
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