Online Community for local area

Anyone wanna help me build an online community for Potts Point?

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Laurel Papworth

Named by Forbes™ Magazine in the Top 50 Social Media Influencers globally, named Head of Industry, Social Media (Marketing Magazine™) and in the Power150 Media bloggers (AdAge™). CERT IV Training and Assessment certified trainer (Diplomas and Certificates etc) Adult Education. Laurel has manager Facebook Pages for Junior Masterchef, Idol, Big Brother etc. and have consulted on private online communities for banks Westpac, not for profits UNHCR & governments in SE Asia. Lecturer, social media, University of Sydney for 10 years and Laurel has 11,000 online students. Laurel Papworth personally connects to 6 million followers online and has taught around 100,000 people in the last 10 years how to be social media managers.

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Megan Rawlins on March 15, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Do you have any examples of local social networks like the one you are thinking of? I am trying to find examples to help set one up where I live in California.
Laurel Papworth on March 15, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Have a look at ‘backyard’ or ‘backfence’ – I think they used to white label a local area community online. Not sure if they are still around now. 🙁 Backfence I think it was…

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