Way back in 1998 we were just a couple of REALTORS in a small community close to downtown Orlando. It was a cute place with it's own shopping district surrounded with homes built during the 20's to the early 70's. You know the kind of place we mean- trees, brick streets and homes with hard wood floors and porches.
We loved it!
But it was missing something.
It's own community web site we could all use to find all our merchants, craftsmen, stores and restaurants. But even more, we needed to be able to share information, discuss things that were important to our community and help each other when a resident or family had a need that we could all step up and meet.
So that is what we did.
We built it, gave it to the community and then we managed it. Every day there was fresh news posted by the community. Everyone could get involved in discussions about things that impacted their lives. Churches and schools could get the word out about events and programs that could serve the community. And there was a very important part of our neighborhood web site- Helping Hands.
Helping Hands was a place that a need could be posted and the community could meet.
We were now People Helping People. And the stories were really cool.
Things like a disabled man that needed a bicycle to reach work each day to the Mother that could not afford a cub scout uniform for her Fatherless Son.
So what happened next?
Read the next post.
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