Posts Tagged ‘neighborgoods’

The NeighborGoods experiment: Does sharing locally work?

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Back in July, I wrote a post about Sharing with your neighbors that focused on the site NeighborGoods.net. The service connects people who need to borrow and rent “neighborly” items with others in the community that have the items. Rakes, shovels, lawn mowers, bikes, vacuum cleaners, etc.

In October, I interviewed the founder and CEO of NeighborGoods.net, Micki Krimmel, for opensource.com. Since then, I’ve been thinking about firing up the service for my neighborhood here in Raleigh.

To kick off the month of December, I decided to (more…)

Sharing with your neighbors

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Has anyone tried out the new service called NeighborGoods? The service looks like it connects people who need to borrow and rent “neighborly” items with others in the community that have the items. Rakes, shovels, lawn mowers, bikes, vacuum cleaners, etc. In theory, this sounds like it would be a really beneficial service, something that we attempt to do sometimes on our mailing list. The service could save money people money and make better use of idle resources.

I wrote an open thread post on opensource.com about this, Would you share with your neighbors?, with some interesting (more…)