We’re not exactly the Lads from Liverpool, but you wouldn’t know it from the reaction of some women I met last night.  I showed up late for an event here in Silicon Valley and the room was already starting to thin out.  I was talking to a few women when they asked what I did.  When I described Neighborsville to them, they started jumping up and down and clapping and making “wheee” noises, then they hugged me.  Hunh?  I mean we’re excited about Neighborsville too, but I don’t think I’ve ever screamed “Wheee!” (OK, maybe once).

Turns out that one of the women is the Planning Commissioner for Menlo Park and another was the president of the Suburban Park HOA, a neighborhood in Menlo Park.  They had just had a meeting the night before to discuss how to bring their neighborhood online because it’s getting increasingly difficult for them to talk to everyone in the neighborhood.  They talked about Yahoo groups or Google or an email list of some sort, but each of the solutions came up short for some reason or another.  What they wanted was an easy to maintain website that they didn’t have to do much with where their neighbors could share information, events, and thoughts about what was going on around the neighborhood.

Suburban Park HOA, I think we can help.