{"id":454,"date":"2009-06-28T11:36:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T16:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2009\/06\/meeting_the_neighbors\/"},"modified":"2012-01-07T21:18:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T02:18:06","slug":"meeting_the_neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2009\/06\/meeting_the_neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting the Neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city commissioner that I wrote to about <a title=\"Avondale Bulletin Board\" href=\"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2009\/06\/avondale_bulletin_board\/\">setting up a bulletin board<\/a>, mentioned me starting the board in his electronic newsletter on Friday. About 10 people signed up that day and I picked up a few more yesterday. I figure about 20 people is the critical mass where they can get conversations going and get some word of mouth (it shows 19 users right now, but 3 of those are me). Also if you Google &#8220;Avondale Estates forum&#8221; (not in quotes) then the page shows up on the first page of results. So Google at least has me indexed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" src=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/2009\/lakeblurb.jpg\" alt=\"lakeblurb.jpg\" width=\"416\" height=\"293\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The manual process of activating members has been fun. I send a standard e-mail to people who have signed up asking them for their real name, address, and phone number. This verifies who they are (kind of; I&#8217;m not actually calling them so they could be faking, but I do look up the name and address in the city directory), but more importantly if I ever have to kick them off prevents them from signing up again.<\/p>\n<p>I also got to hear from some interesting people. One guy is a photographer who has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffherr.blogspot.com\/\">blog<\/a> where his most recent post exclaims his first tomato of the season. Except because he is a professional photographer, it is the best picture of a tomato you could ask for. Another person works at the Atlanta Opera (not a performer). So it has been kind of neat getting to know people even though I haven&#8217;t met any of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city commissioner that I wrote to about setting up a bulletin board, mentioned me starting the board in his electronic newsletter on Friday. About 10 people signed up that day and I picked up a few more yesterday. I figure about 20 people is the critical mass where they can get conversations going and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2009\/06\/meeting_the_neighbors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meeting the Neighbors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}