Neighboring professionally with Joseph Porcelli

Category: Engagement Tips

  • Hey Buffalo and Erie County NY: How would you like to have SnowCrew …?

    Hey Buffalo and Erie County NY: How would you like to have SnowCrew …?

    There is blizzard dumping 2 feet of snow on the City of Buffalo and Erie County NY. I’d like to be able activate SnowCrew to help connect nearby and able neighbors to dig out their elderly, disabled, sick, injured, pregnant (you get the idea) neighbors after the blizzard. My challenge…

  • My Top 3 Takeaways on How I used Facebook to Encourage My Friends to Prepare During Sandy

    Two of the four walls in the apartment in DC that I live in with my wife and our old arthritic dog in are made of glass. We call it the Tree House. During Hurricane Sandy, our tree house had me worried the windows would blow in and the three…

  • The Community Engagement Formula #cmgr

    Lauren (who I work with at GovDelivery) and I had a very productive week. One of the three presentations we prepared and gave was titled What Motivates an Online Community? For this presentation, we developed a new formula called The Community Engagment Formula. The formula states: Motivation + Supports – Obstacles = Engagement If you have…

  • 9 Effective Engagement Tactics Utilized at the DC One City Summit

    As an engagement strategist still recovering from chronic burnout as a result of my organizing efforts for the Boston Police Department and Neighbors for Neighbors (facilitating 250+ meetings a year for many years), I avoid spending entire Saturday afternoons at civic events like the plague. To my surprise, something extraordinary happened yesterday. I ended up staying…

  • 3 Tips on How to Make a Nametag Work for You

    Situation: Most people are NOT social butterflies and don’t like, and even hate, networking. Resolution: Engineer conversations by wearing your interests, passions, values, and skills. I’ve got a thing for nametags. Back in 2007, I wore one every day, all day long, everywhere I went, as a part of my Nametag Project.…