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Nextdoor is a social network for your neighborhood (maybe)
Nextdoor is “a private social network for you, your neighbors and your community.” Think Facebook, but just for your neighborhood and some of the areas close by.
The free site seems to be a good way for neighbors within a few blocks of each other to communicate directly, like some of the area Facebook or Google groups, but with the added caveat that users have to confirm their address to participate and everyone has to use their real name. It seems like it would be a particularly good platform for the civic associations to use to share information.
The site offers the service to a handful of area neighborhoods, including Church Hill, Church Hill North, Chimborazo, and Fulton. I’m not sure if Union Hill and points north are not represented, or are just not visible to me with my swank Church Hill address (can anyone clarify? – John).
As of this morning, there are 35 members in Church Hill, 14 in Church Hill North, 4 in Chimborazo, and 48 in Fulton.
The city of Richmond has announced that they will be partnering with Nextdoor “to improve citywide and neighbor-to-neighbor communications”, beginning with the city’s police department.
To sign up, visit nextdoor.com and enter your home address.
It’s also active in the Rocketts Landing community.
I just tried to sign up, but it misplaces East Broad Street addresses as West Broad Street. There’s no way to correct it. How unfortunate.
I was screwing around with it last night plugging in different addresses and noticed that it would remember an address I tried until I quit my browser and came back to try again.
Yeah, that occurred to me, so I tried it as well. I did find their “report an error” form, so we’ll see.
Fairmount just came online.
A few months back I received a card in the mail to join but held off not knowing how legit it was and heard nothing more about them. Now I see only a scant few have joined and i am sure they mailed out more than 4 cards in Church Hill North!
There’s lots of activity on it in Rocketts Landing and in Fulton. It looks like I can’t get onto the Church Hill network even though Fulton is adjacent. Perhaps I’ll try again sometime.
Thank you for reporting on the exciting community outreach service we have adopted, Nextdoor.
As of this writing, Fulton has 55 members, Church Hill 45, Church Hill North 16, Chimborazo 4 and Union Hill, Oakwood, Fairmount and Shockoe Bottom remains to be launched.
To officially launch a neighborhood the service requires at least 11 members.
Yes, one can see some activity in adjacent areas from your home neighborhood.
Nextdoor is a service that offers excellent connectivity to your neighbors – from sharing info about local improvements, asking for recommendations for repair work, reuniting residents with lost pets and even listing which homes will have candy for trick-or-treaters this Halloween.
The RPD will be using it to share safety updates and reminders about neighborhood meetings, etc.
The more people that sign up for the service the better it works – so get your neighbors to register for this free service!
It’s spammy as hell. I’ve gotten a couple dozen emails in six hours since signing up.
Church Hill is now at 77, 21 in Church Hill North, 19 in Chimborazo, 3 in Fairmount, and 51 in Fulton
@10, yea I went in and changed my email preferences on it. Look at the email they send, way down on the bottom there’s tiny print that says “adjust your email settings.” If you click on it, it takes you right to their page for that, and I clicked no email on absolutely everything except a single daily update about crime. Otherwise it was going to drive me NUTS!
Oakwood is now online.
Can anyone tell me neighborhoods north of Fairmount are online & I can not see them from Church Hill, or if they are not online?
And Union Hill, stop screwing around and get on this 🙂
This part where Nextdoor is reliant on being set up for a neighborhood by a resident seems to reflect the digital divide across the area.
“Great! Fairfield is your neighborhood.”
Grumble.
If you’ve signed up, can you send me a screen shot of what “close by neighborhoods” you can see? Fairfield doesn’t show up for me.
The site wouldn’t let me set up the Union Hill neighborhood for some reason. Tried all day.
Must you be an home owner to join?
Nope, just a resident.
Fixed it. But the boundaries are wrong. Union Hill is on Nextdoor.
I can see Union Hill on the site now.
somebody send a screen shot of how wonderful it is and i might sign up.
any website that makes you fork over your home address & email to “see” all the goodies it promises just seems icky to me. as of 12-midnite tonite, “4 union hill neighbors have joined”. and one of you gave them my old email address.
and you get bombarded by messages saying “welcome” not sure the point so far
The map is filling in, though as a Church Hill address I can’t see Peter Paul or Fairfield.
#22 – I agree: LOTS of welcome emails.
@24 Kathleen, and everyone else who is going as nuts as I was over those emails: Look at the email they send, way down on the bottom there’s tiny print that says “adjust your email settings.” If you click on it, it takes you right to their page for that, and you can adjust what you get in the way of email. Much easier to manage that way.