?This is an usual post. First of all, I want to give you a heads up about an app that has particular relevance to my current topic: loving our neighbors as ourselves.
Secondly, I need your feedback on three ads I’ve developed for Facebook. Those ads are below.
The app I want to direct your attention to is called Nextdoor. You can download it for free from your app store. Nextdoor is a private social network for you and your neighbors. It’s particularly helpful for learning our neighbors’ first and last names. I often learn the first names of my neighbors, but have trouble with last names. Or I learn the name of one spouse, but not the name of the other spouse.?
Nextdoor is excellent for solving these problems. Of course, it depends on how many people on your block are members of Nextdoor. I was surprised to discover that a number of my neighbors already are.
There are other benefits to the app as well. Neighbors put things up for sale or give away, list events, talk about crime and safety issues (i.e., I discovered we have a big problem with coyotes in our neighborhood, and some neighborhood kid has been stealing delivery packages off front door porches two streets away. The nerve.)
Anyway, if you want to get to know and love your neighbors, Nextdoor is a great way to jump start the process.
This post first appeared in NewCommandment.org
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2 thoughts on “Nextdoor: The Neighborhood App Every Christian Should Download”
these ads require that I be logged in to the meeting to meet needs site. Otherwise I only get a link displayed. I think the single mom ad is most effective. The message of the others is OK, but staring at a face doesn’t help reinforce the message.
Thanks for the heads up, Ron. I thought that by making the post public, I would also be making the links public. Obviously that is not so.
Regarding the videos, I had help developing them from a company specializing in Facebook videos. They’re developed for extremely short attention spans.
I’ve just received the results from my first full day of showing two of the videos. The ads were shown to about 5,000 people and the number of visits to my website went from an average of 100 per day to 1,000. Views of the lengthy intro video on the website also multiplied by ten. So did the number of people who took “the tour.” I don’t have any new members of Meeting to Meet Needs yet. But it’s clear that people are seriously considering it. So we’ll see if they actually do join. So far, I’m pleased with the results.