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Neighborly
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PAGE: Home – Promo
Neighborly learn about sign up login
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Enter your zip:
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to see your neighborly neighbors
PAGE: Zip to Map
Neighbor.ly 55407
Here’s the people on neighbor.ly near you.
When you sign up, these are the people you’ll be able to talk to, and who will talk to you.
[Map of people in 55407, people/dots]
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PAGE: Select Neighbor Circle
(Map showing who you be visible to based on preference)
Who do you want to talk to?
{alternative layout: Who do you want to be neighborly with?, Who do you want in your neighbor circle?}
Your Street Address:
[MAP]
Select your neighborly circle
Small Medium Large
20 – 50 – 100
{default: 50}
The larger the circle, the more you will know is going on.
As more people join, your {50} neighbor circle will dynamically tighten distance wise. Eventually it will be just down the street. Change now or later (limited times each year).
View people in your circle
After you register you, will be able to see the profile information shared by your neighbors.
REGISTER
Name, 38XX 10th Ave. S.
Name, 38XX 10th Ave. S.
Name, 38XX 10th Ave. S.
Name, 38XX 10th Ave. S.
Name, 38XX 10th Ave. S.
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{Note: As you select the number of people in your circle
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PAGE: Profile:
Neighborly builds trust. Real neighbors have real names.
Think reciprocity. Your full name and approximate location is shared with the people whose information you can also see. You can share more to be more neighborly.
*First Name:
*Last Name:
*Street Address: {Filled in from prior page}
*City:
*Postal/Zip Code: {Filled in from prior page}
- E-mail:
- Set Password:
[Done]
Note: Based on out terms of service, you must use your real legal name to participate in Neighborly. Those registering using an alias or another’s identity may be in violation of state computer trespass laws.
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PAGE: Set Your Profile
Contact Preferences on Your Neighbor Circle (not listed beyond circle):
Display E-mail on Profile: [ ] Yes [ ] No
Web Contact Form on Profile: [ ] Yes [ ] No
Display Actual Street Address on Profile: [ ] Yes [ ] No
If you want to share further information within your circle, fill it out:
Telephone:
Twitter Handle:
Facebook Profile Page:
(Or use Facebook Connect to tell us. Facebook Login (e-mail): Password: )
Best Public Web Link About You (blog, etc.):
Occupation:
About Me:
Skills Exchange:
Skills you are willing to share/exchange with your neighbors:
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Over time we will add additional fields to help you connect with your nearest neighbors based on mutual interests.
DONE
Notes: Many people will NOT want to connect neighbors to their professional or social lives online, while others will prefer to simply be found and friended on Facebook. Neighborly should work for either kind of person.
LinkedIN, MySpace, Google Profile … all possible things to link into.
Questions about under 18s if we allow them to register or collecting age information.
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SIDEBAR
Become a block leader!
Be Safe
What happens on Neighborly?
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Be a Block Leader
Do you like to connect people? Bring neighbors together?
Whether you just do this or you are part of an official block club or neighborhood watch, we have some special tools for you.
1. Share e-mail updates easily with delivery map – Help see who you are reaching and areas where you can recruit.
2. Recruitment tools – Flyers, sign-up sheets, postcards and more.
3. Promote block-level exchange – those who fully register (beyond the e-mail update addresses you enter) can post and share information
4. Organize block activities – Promote general activity ideas or use special tools and resources provide by our Neighbor.be partners in your area.
Why $10 a year (first year is free)?
You deserve a real stake in the non-profit Neighbor.be effort. You get what you pay for and we want to serve you with value.
To have some assurance that you are who you say you are, block leaders need to register their credit card to get access to these enhanced services.
The trust we build from real identities is essential to this service. Block leaders also have the ability to temporarily suspend participants for any abusive behavior or close topics for further postings. Block leaders may also “follow” each other to share ideas on postings and news for spreading to your block.
Scholarships are available and community partners are encouraged to contact us about pre-paying for sets of block leader accounts for coordinated outreach efforts.
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[Display (after registered) … delivery settings …
PAGE: Delivery Setting
[ X ] Daily E-mail Digest – Default Setting
You will receive a digest on days when there are messages posted by those in your neighbor circle.
[ ] E-mail each posts as made.
[ ] Web-based – No daily e-mail
All users will receive a simple weekly e-mail summary of all recent messages in your semi-private neighbor circle along with links to new neighborhood and city-wide forums and new community content.
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PAGE: About Neighborly
Neighborly is an experiment to connect nearest neighbors online. Breaking the ice online for the real world.
Participants connect via their “neighbor circle” – a dynamic directory of the nearest people registered in the system. In short, you are “friending” 20 to 100 neighbors for semi-private online exchange out of the glare of search engines.
Neighborly is led by volunteers. As a project of the non-profit E-Democracy.org, we encourage you to join our open source development team.
During this alpha testing period, the site is open to broad registration.
With the pending beta phase, group messaging will be limited to addresses within the city limits of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
E-Democracy.org hosts very public neighborhood-wide and
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Page: Be safe
Not all neighbors are neighborly. Some should remain strangers.
Please use your common sense when using this service. For example, even if your neighbor circle is only the nearest 25 participants do not post that you will be out of town. Instead individually contact your nearest neighbors via Neighbor.be or directly.
Do not share any information on your profile or posts that you do not your neighbors to know. While our neighbor circles restrict access and our rule prohibit publicly quoting or publishing messages from a circle (down the road we plan explicitly public options), we cannot guarrantee that one your neighbors will not cut and paste information to another place on the Internet. We keep your exchanges out of Google search and automatically delete all topics and comments not saved by the topic owner after one year.
Safety tools
report abuse
ignore members in your circle
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PAGE (Element?): Why Join (imagine talking bubbles from dots on a sample map)
Why be neighborly?
Imagine the possible exchanges.
“… see anything, my garage was broken into?”
“… yes, I’ll bring my famous bean dip to the potluck.”
“… welcome to the neighborhood.”
“… petitioning the city for a stop sign, what do ya’ll think?”
“… who can recommend a good plumber?”
“… spontaneous movie night for the kids, back of our garage.”
How would you like to be neighborly?
[ ] [Share Idea]
The technology is simple. The people are dynamic. Read this list of known [http://pages.e-democracy.org/block_activities block activities] that someone has done somewhere. Use neighborly to break the ice with those who live around you who also want to connect.Then enjoy the local life.
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PAGE: Submit Local Online Groups
Do you know about an online group – neighborhood e-mail list, Facebook Group, etc. – where your neighbors connect?
While neighborly supports dynamic semi-private micro group communication, we want to help people find existing public and private places where they can connect with their local community online. If the external online group has a public web-feed, just like the public Issues Forums hosted by E-Democracy.org, we will even help promote your new group activity via our service so you can reach more people.
If you don’t have an online group for a “bounded” area near you like a neighborhood with hundreds or thousands of households, we have some tips and also plan to support “electronic block captains” wanting to organize a specific small area online.