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Community Web Site Services
Neighborhood Link is an Internet-based community network, providing free, interactive Web sites for every neighborhood and non-profit organization within your city. These sites are then linked to local government and public service organizations. The end result positions Neighborhood Link as the channel for civic communication in a city, fostering communication within neighborhoods and public service organizations as well as between citizens and their representative government officials and services. It’s all done with a unique Web site template, where anyone with a PC and Internet connection can participate.
Sponsor Neighborhood Web Sites For Your Community
Through the Neighborhood Link community Web site, local organizations and individual citizens are able to post information, access community news, participate in discussions and address important issues. Listings such as garage sales, zoning board meetings, Little League schedules, crime prevention reports and more will be available online to your citizens.
Neighborhood Link is built to be the primary resource for civic communication and information within each city or small town. Every neighborhood and community non-profit is connected to its city and county governments’ Web sites, including: mayor, city council, county commissioners, schools, libraries and police department.
Neighborhood Link is the only community network in the U.S. that provides citizens with an organized and comprehensive resource for civic information about their neighborhoods and community organizations. The audience is attracted to Neighborhood Link because it is convenient, easy to use, effective, and most importantly, focused on subjects vital to their everyday lives.
To encourage participation, Neighborhood Link will provide each sponsoring utility with information for creating advertising, marketing, and public relations materials. Neighborhood Link will provide user and marketing information directly to the neighborhoods for them to directly promote the site.
How Neighorhood Link Works
As an APPA member, your utility pays an annual sponsorship fee in the range of $0.50 to $1.00 per year for every metered household that you serve. And your utility helps promote the availability of the Neighborhood Link network to community groups and citizens-at-large. Neighborhood Link does everything else!
Neighborhood Link maintains all hardware and handles all network infrastructure and programming for the Web sites. The Neighborhood Link staff provides all customer service to the site visitors. The nonprofit community organizations need only a computer, Internet access, and the ability to point, click, copy and paste to create and maintain their own free, interactive Web site.
By sponsoring Neighborhood Link, your utility will support local organizations, help build a more cohesive community, promote your utility’s community involvement, create and enhance a “good neighbor” image for your utility, demonstrate your support of the community, and align your community with a valuable civic communication tool.
Through Web site banner ads that your utility will run on Neighborhood Link, you’ll make it easy for customers to access information on your products and services.
Million Page Views In Muscatine
Muscatine, Iowa, Power & Water partnered with Neighborhood Link in 2000. In 2003, the Muscatine site racked up more than one MILLION page views. The site averages over 90,000 page views per month. Visitors average over 17 minutes per visit to the site. Nearly 90 Muscatine community nonprofit organizations have created their own free Web sites.
Sponsor Free Web Sites
For more information on sponsoring Neighborhood Link in your community, contact your Hometown Connections representative.
See these Neighborhood Link sites for more information.
• Muscatine, Iowa, Success Story
• National Network Of Neighborhood Link Cities
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