n the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, it’s hard to stay on top of community activities and events. The following apps connect you to your neighbors. You’ll make friends, connect with local businesses and engage in community projects and events in no time.
Nextdoor is one of the best-known apps for connecting with your neighbors and your local community at large. The Nextdoor app allows you to meet the people that live around you and potentially make new friends in the process. However, it also acts as a kind of online neighborhood hub. Nextdoor can be used by members of your local community to post a wide variety of things. Neighbors can share crime and safety tips and buy and sell household goods. They can also share recommended restaurants, local event information, and recommendations for professional services, such as plumbers, CPAs, and babysitters.
If you are looking to make connections in Gainesville you can also visit their website.
Eventbrite is one of the greatest event apps for finding local happenings of all kinds. Music festivals, craft shows, and even bar crawls are right at your fingertips. Enable access to your location to see what's happening around you, or search by city. The app then gives you dates, times, locations, maps, and similar events. You can also check ticket prices and order those that are available. You can browse events by category or search for something specific. Plus, you can share happenings with your friends or save your favorites with a free account.
There are lots of Eventbrite activities in Gainesville. Some we have even shared previously in our newsletter.
The app focuses on local in-person meetups and events. More than 225,000 meetup groups around the world use the app to list local events in 130 countries.
The founders of Olio consider food waste to be one of the biggest problems facing mankind. It is estimated that the value of wasted food worldwide every year is somewhere around the $1 trillion mark. Food waste is a big failure of market inefficiency. Olio hopes to change that. It helps connect neighbors and businesses with one another so that food surplus can be shared as opposed to thrown out. Local stores can post food near its sell-by-date. Individuals can post home-grown veggies or even the contents of their fridge if they’re going on a vacation.
Many people have great ideas of how to improve their neighborhoods, but they don’t know how to get their ideas off the ground. This is where IOBY comes in. IOBY stands for “in our backyards.” It is a crowdfunding site that is geared toward civic participation within local communities. IOBY can be used to create a plan to get ideas off the ground, from raising money to finding volunteers. The IOBY website can be used to create a page dedicated to your project. This makes it easy for donors to learn about your cause, give tax-deductible donations, and sign up to volunteer.
And of course…..
Everyone has heard the stories of Facebook events getting wildly out of control, with thousands of people turning up to birthday parties and the like. Those stories alone are a testament to Facebook's ability to find events in your town.
Even if you're not an active Facebook user, remember that hundreds of restaurants, businesses, and activity groups in your area do maintain an active profile. It's even fairly common to see them offering discounts and promotions to people who reference a particular post. And with maps, attendee lists, and event management tools, Facebook is a surprisingly useful event app.
Ashley Cook Assistant Property Manager
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