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Nov 13,2008
Portland Loos Coming Soon...
by jenniferd
I can hardly hold it -- the excitement I feel in letting you know that the Portland Loos will make their much awaited debut early this December. What is a Portland Loo, you ask? The Portland Loo is Portland's newest form of relief -- a place to go when you gotta go. No longer will you have to hold it until you get home because conveniently located on the street corner will be on oasis to Portland's bladder stretched coffee fiends -- a bathroom. (You might also have heard them referred to as Leonard's Loos in honor of Commissioner Randy Leonard who has so delicately taken these toities from conception to fruition.) The Portland Loo offers high durability and a unique and balanced blend of privacy and security, all at a cost that is a fraction of current stand-alone restroom models. The Loo can be installed almost anywhere that water and sewer hookups are available. They will be open 24/7 and are ADA accsesible. The Loos are solar powered. The first Loo will be installe
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Oct 31,2008
Citywide Accessibility Tool Launched
by where's lulu
The new Portland-only web site Where's Lulu is a free, online database where Portlanders can rate and review places and services (mostly businesses) based on their accessibility. Example: Are the curb cuts next to the bus stop in front of a Stumptown Coffee Roasters wheelchair-friendly? A search tool allows for filtering using criteria such as whether nearby public transit options exist. Coming up: The ability to upload photos depicting accessibility or inaccessibility of businesses. We founded the site to provide info making it easier for disabled people to get from point A to point B, as well as to establish higher standards of accessibility for businesses and public places in general. The local disabled community is already on board, with users voicing opinions on everything from just how close a Mac Store is to the MAX line, to the wheelchair maneuverability between aisles at swank Southeast eatery Noble Rot. To join Where's Lulu for free, or to learn more, visit http
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Sep 24,2008
Portland Voted Greenest City In The U.S.
by Agent503
According to a ranking by SustainLane, Portland is the greenest city in the nation. The rankings track the unfolding story of cities working to improve their residents’ quality of life. Cities with decentralized energy supplies, renewable water sources, abundant mass transit etc score high. Green building and land use policies also play an important role in determining who's green and who's not. Portland's placing at the top may not come as a surprise to many, but the city may not be as green as it's made out to be. Find out more here . Related Info: Portland is the Greenest U.S. City-Well, Mostly!
posted at 01:20 PM
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Sep 23,2008
Technical Glitch...
by shooter
Sorry for the brief absence. It appears that a server update didn't go according to plan, which took Neighborhood Notes down for about an hour. We're happy to say that, since you are reading this, we are up and running again.If it were only that easy to fix my dishwasher and the DVD drive in my Mac...
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Sep 5,2008
Neighbors are Buzzing about WordCamp
by pearlgirl
The verdict is in—neighbors are excited about WordCamp !!! So far, neighborhood representatives from Parkrose , Northwest District , and the Pearl plan to attend the conference on September 27. We're all excited to learn how to improve online communications in our neighborhoods. Do blogs make sense for neighborhood associations? Learn more here . And, this isn't about adding another thing to your (already too full) plate, this is an opportunity to work smarter—not harder!If you're not tech savvy, that's okay. There is something for every level of expertise—from user to developer! In the end, you may even learn to love your computer. If you're planning to attend, please send us an email . We can keep everyone updated on who is planning to attend. This is a great opportunity for neighborhood leaders to connect and grow. Hope to see you there!
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posted at 10:23 AM
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Sep 2,2008
Do Blogs Make Sense for Neighborhood Associations?
by pearlgirl
Being a tech-savvy city, it makes sense that Portland neighborhood associations would have an online presence. A website can disseminate information, provide a forum for discussion, and make it easy for residents to stay in tune with the happenings in their 'hood. If a neighborhood association doesn't have a blog... well, their web presence is probably more complicated and expensive than it needs to be. A blog (you're looking at one right now) is usually used to post text articles in a chronological fashion... perfect for a neighborhood association to spread news to its members. The process of posting updates is very simple. If you can use an e-mail program or Microsoft Word, publishing posts to a blog isn't any more complicated than that. In addition to text posts, most blog systems make it easy to include other types of information such as photographs, calendar/event information, and even videos. Information which doesn't change (such as basic neighborhood information) can be p
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Aug 18,2008
Blogging on "The Blog-Off"
by jenniferd
Today is the first day of the rest of my blogging life -- The 2008 Blog-Off: Water Blog vs. Cross Blog . Today I will begin my first of five posts that puts those pesky Cross Bloggers in their place -- managing emergencies and begging for blood. Not blogging. Here's today's challenge and my instructions to you, faithful and loyal readers: Today's challenge presented by local media: Base a post on the following news article that's relevant to your organization. Difficulty level: Way easy http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/world/asia/19pstan.html?hp -Presented by Corey Pein of Willamette Week and Amy Ruiz of the Portland Mercury As I'm sure you already read a couple weeks ago, the Water Blog won the Mercury's pre-game, favorite blog contest , fair and square, so I know we can take the cake this week too. So, here's the skinny and how you can help -- Points are scored based on the number of comments coming in, positively assessing or jus
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Aug 8,2008
We're back...
by shooter
It didn't have anything to do with the Neighborhood Notes website, one of our office computers crashed. All the data was recovered, nothing was lost except for the time to figure out what happened, reinstall the operating system, and then restore the data. Unfortunately, this took most of the day. When something like this happens it is a good reality check about back up. If you don't do it regularly, you should. Your life will be much easier when your computer crashes—and it will. I've been through it a few times. Sometimes it's not so bad, like today, where nothing was lost and everything was restored. Other times you lose important data.
Those are the worst.
If you don't have a back up plan, make one. On a Mac with Leopard, you can use Time Machine to automatically schedule backups. I'm sure there are more than enough applications on Windows to do something very similar. Hard drives are cheap, important data is priceless.
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posted at 11:19 PM
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Aug 5,2008
Portland Water Bureau Says, "Bring it On!" to Red Cross Blog, Blog-Off Challenge
by jenniferd
As "Blogmistress" to the city's famed Portland Water Bureau, Water Blog , I get a lot of interesting things coming through my office -- but I must say, the most interesting suggestion yet showed up in my inbox last week -- A Blog-Off, presented to the Water Blog by the local Red Cross Blog . Fearing that Water Bureau Administrator David Shaff would laugh me out of his office, I meekly presented this idea to him, because quite frankly, I thought it was pretty durn cool. Much to my delight, he agreed and even liked the idea, blessing me to go forth and blog prosper. So, beginning August 18th, Blog-Off 2008 will ensue between our two blogs. I couldn't be more excited because to be quite honest, we take blogging and The Water Blog pretty seriously around here. Though I do try to keep the Water Blog light, there is some super important information that I post on there. I know that the Red Cross Blog also posts really important stuff -- so it's mandatory for both of our blog
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Aug 1,2008
Shout out to Old Town Computers
by shooter
I tend to be a DIY person when it comes to computers. I like getting in there and trying to figure things out. Sometimes it works out great, other times not so much. There have been a number of lingering things that I have wanted to do to improve our workflow but somehow never had the time to get to them. As Neighborhood Notes has flourished it became clear that I needed help to get these things done.
Enter Old Town Computers .
We've known about them for a while, having seen their space in BackSpace , and decided to give them a call. After explaining our needs, an appointment was scheduled for the next day. Try that with Geek Squad (ummm, we can have someone there next week, maybe).
John arrived on time, and after going over in detail what we needed he got busy. A lingering email issue (thanks to Comcast, grrrrrr) was sorted out, a network storage device is now shared by all, and we have proper backup procedures in place (as o
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