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		<title>Make Things Easier for Your Block Captains</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 21:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The membership directory we install can be organized by street, making it a lot easier for your street captains to monitor whose membership is current and whose isn&#8217;t. If a particular street experiences an event, such as a break-in, it&#8217;s easy to see who needs to be notified immediately.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>The membership directory we install can be organized by street, making it a lot easier for your street captains to monitor whose membership is current and whose isn&#8217;t.  </p>
<p>If a particular street experiences an event, such as a break-in, it&#8217;s easy to see who needs to be notified immediately.</p>
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		<title>How Can You Build Community Through your Site?</title>
		<link>http://www.civiccommunities.com/?p=31</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can you use your community website to create a stronger sense of community? One of the ways is to post community events and send out weekly reminders through the internal email system, advising the neighbors of new information available for their review. The secret is to blend in fun things &#8211; craft festivals, children&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.civiccommunities.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/craft_festival.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-32" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="craft_festival" src="http://www.civiccommunities.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/craft_festival.jpg" alt="" width="275" height="183" /></a>How can you use your community website to create a stronger sense of community?</p>
<p>One of the ways is to post community events and send out weekly reminders through the internal email system, advising the neighbors of new information available for their review.</p>
<p>The secret is to blend in fun things &#8211; craft festivals, children&#8217;s events, updates from police, along with the serious matters of local governmental issues.</p>
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		<title>Why Should Your Community Website be Interactive?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know the old saying &#8211; people want to be talked to, not at.  Static websites, that is, ones with no user interactivity, do just that.  They provide information but no participation or feedback. They &#8216;talk at&#8217; the reader. Our sites offer the member the option to post, to email other members, and to share [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.civiccommunities.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/talk.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-17" title="talk" src="http://www.civiccommunities.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/talk.png" alt="" width="128" height="128" /></a>You know the old saying &#8211; people want to be talked <em><strong>to</strong></em>, not at.  Static websites, that is, ones with no user interactivity, do just that.  They provide information but no participation or feedback. They &#8216;talk at&#8217; the reader.</p>
<p>Our sites offer the member the option to post, to email other members, and to share information.  They become the glue that the association board uses to bind the community int.o a cohesive unit</p>
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