East of the River Blogs - Communities Speaking forThemselves

EastRiver Blogs & Listservs (register your blog or listserv )

Nsagi's List - Focuses on Culture, Community, New Media

The East of the River Mailing List is devoted to sharing information about the Washington, DC neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.

District of Columbia: Mayor's Office: Mayor's Blog
Getting Started: What Button Do I Push?
"As I welcome you to my blog I’m asking myself the question: What is a blog anyway? Is it a modern high-tech version of the diary logging the experiences and observations of a local public official? Is it an almanac capturing my far flung and scattered interests in fields ranging from ornithology to baseball? Is it a disciplined effort to share with you a well-written piece on a daily theme? (Psst…Don’t take this as an example.) Or is it just a steady stream of consciousness floating by without even primary treatment."

Currently, there are very few blogs or listservs, that we know of, that focus on issues East of the River. There are many issues that confront our neighborhoods that lists could be established to enable community dialog:

Child Care
Education
Environment
Gentrification
Health
HIV/AIDS
Housing
Imminent Domain
New Development
Politics
Retail Services
Transportation – Traffic
Youth Violence

We invite you to create a blog or listserv and let us link it to East of the River Online.

Blogs
A blog is your easy-to-use web site, where you can quickly post thoughts, interact with people, and more. All for FREE. Click any of these resources to establish your blog:

Xanga is a community of online diaries and journals. You can easily start your own free journal, share thoughts with your friends and meet new friends, too!

LiveJournal is a simple-to-use (but extremely powerful and customizable) personal publishing ("blogging") tool, built on open source software.

Blogger.com provides tools for people to have their own voice on the web and organizing the world's information from the personal perspective.

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

MSN Spaces - With your own Space, you can now easily build your own personal Web log (blog) to share your photos, thoughts and experiences with whoever you choose

TypePad - You can publish anything instantly. Be the sole author, or share a weblog with friends, family, or colleagues. Post your vacation photos, comment on the news, keep a private journal. How you use TypePad is up to you.

Once you've created your blog, send us your blog information and we will link it to the East of the River Online site.

Email List or Listservs
An Email List or Listserv is one of the most utilized methods of group communications on the Internet. They are relatively easy to set up and can be useful for discussion issues of importance to members of the list.

Yahoo Groups - Start a group for your friends, family, club, or other organization. Create a group to find others who share your own particular interest.

FreeLists - A service providing free, commercial-grade Internet mailing lists to all interested. Our lists are all internet and technology-related. Thus, we provide a free focal point for technology-inclined individuals and groups on the Internet.

Google Groups is a free service which helps groups of people communicate effectively using email and the Web. Every group has a home page hosted by Google where members can start new discussions or reply to older topics. Every group also has its own email address to help its members stay in touch with each other.

MSN Groups - Free interest-group site hosting from Microsoft Network. Offers many features; customizable by the group website owner

Once you've created your listserv, send us your Listserv information and we will link it to the East of the River Online site.