For Immediate Release: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 For More Information Contact:
Joseph Porcelli, Cheif Executive Neighbor
857-222-4420
Jporcelli : at : NeighborsForNeighbors.org
Mayor Menino Joins Neighbors for Neighbors to Help Launch a Citywide Social Networking Website
Website provides a social network for each of Boston’s neighborhoods so residents and neighborhood officials can easily connect
Mayor Thomas M. Menino helped launch the Neighbors for Neighbors social networking website operated by Neighbors for Neighbors, Inc., a Boston based 501c3 non-profit organization led by Joseph Porcelli, a resident of Jamaica Plain. City personnel like Neighborhood Services Coordinators and BPD Captains as well as Community Service Officers will interact with members on the website and help them solve problems by connecting them to city resources.
“By providing these social networks, Neighbors for Neighbors is providing our residents yet another way to stay in touch with each other and their neighborhood officials,” said Mayor Menino. “We continue to use the latest technology to make government even more accessible and more responsive to our constituents. Just this week we launched the City’s first-ever iPhone application to send constituent requests to the Mayor’s 24-Hour Hotline and now we’re providing them another way to connect with city officials.”
On the networks, users create profiles and post information about themselves (and organizations they represent), and can find and communicate with neighbors. Users can also post blogs and events, participate in forums, add videos, photos, music, and create and join interest groups.
Coordinators from the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services as well as District Police Captains and Community Service Officers will all have a presence on the website to answer any questions users may have about their neighborhoods from broken street lights and trash pickup to various public safety issues.
“Mayor Menino has said time and time again that we all need to work together so this is our answer to his call to action,” said Joseph Porcelli of Neighbors for Neighbors. “This website helps us as neighbors and the neighborhood officials who work with us to communicate, collaborate and solve problems together.”
The mission of Neighbors for Neighbors is to connect people to others who live, work and serve in the same neighborhood and provide tools for them to communicate and organize around their common interests.
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