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Submitted by emmettoconnell on Fri, 02/17/2006 - 10:17am.
Over the last couple days I put together a new website for my neighborhood association. Our old website was basic and informative, but didn't offer a way for anyone except for the webmaster to edit or add anything. This new drupal based (just like Olyblog) site will let any of our members add comments, and our leaders add front page conent, including events. I have been for the past few weeks trying to find a way to tie an email discussion group with a drupal/civicspace site, but I'm not that big of a nerd yet, so I gave up. For my NA instead I grabbed a google group, which should be nice. This process got me thinking: with the availability of free, open source, so called Web 2.0 applications out there, that allow people to connect, discuss and organize, how can neighbhorhood associations use them to be more effective? I put together our site with some basic modules from drupal (events, forums, etc...), but if other NAs adopt similar technology, can we connect to eachother locally and be a more powerful voice than we are right now?
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This is brilliant, you have g
Submitted by Sarah on Fri, 02/17/2006 - 5:16pm.