PNV: You've Got Mail!

Next time you login, check your Profile for friends because you can now send them a private message. If someone isn't listed, first add her as a friend and then message-away! Simply click on Inbox in the top toolbar (sky-blue) to check your messages.

We are still seeking more PNV Administrators. Administrators will enjoy more access and edit controls, like killing spam users and news. If this sounds interesting, simply contact us.



Hoping to see you @ http://www.PlanningNewsVote.com/ .

PNV: 'Tis the Season - Search Rankings

Thanks to our users/editors for putting us in the Top 10 of the Big 3! So for the search words "planning news" on Christmas Day 2007 and for some weeks preceding, PNV is -

• Ranked 8th on Google Search
• Ranked 2nd on Microsoft Live Search
  
• Ranked 9th on Yahoo! Search

As a result, we are rapidly becoming a favorite destination for planning news.









Hoping to see you @ http://www.PlanningNewsVote.com/ .

PNV: 'Tis the Season - News Chatting on PlanningNewsVote.COM

More reasons to login and vote

A small gift from PlanningNewsVote (PNV)- browser-based group chatting with website visitors. And it supports smileys!

We just think that it makes a lot of sense to allow our users/editors, who share a common interest in planning, to network more freely.

Blogging is passe, subscribe to our channel!

So starting 2008, we will test this service across corporate and government firewalls for network compatibility issues. In our initial testings, we found no browser-related problems.

Just remember to login. Also, anytime you leave the webpage, your chat session will be renewed.

So what's your news?

Hoping to see you @ http://www.PlanningNewsVote.com/ .

PNV: PNVit Widget

Last month, we received the following email from the founder of Cyburbia- Dan Tasman, AICP :















So we decided to provide this PNVit widget :
[script src="http://www.planningnewsvote.com/scripts/scr_pnv.js" type="text/javascript"][/script]
[a href="javascript:pnv();" title="Planning News Vote™"]
[img src="http://www.planningnewsvote.com/images/img_pnv20x20.gif" alt="Planning News Vote™" title="Planning News Vote™" style="width: 20px; height: 20px;" /]
[/a]
(Simply replace "[" with "<" and "]" with ">" on your websites)

You can choose from the following 3 image sizes:
(img_pnv10x10.gif), (img_pnv20x20.gif) or (img_pnv30x30.gif)

You can also bookmark this link in your favorite browser:
PNV
* Internet Explorer - Right-click and choose "Add to Favorites"
* Firefox - Right-click and choose "Bookmark This Link", or drag it to your Bookmarks
Toolbar
* Opera - Right-click and choose "Bookmark Link"
Then the only thing you have to do to start submitting news is click that bookmark link!

Hoping to see you @ http://www.PlanningNewsVote.com/ .

Cyburbia: Planning Site of the Day

We are grateful to be Cyburbia's Planning Site of the Day. As its founder Dan Tasman, AICP, put it: "Planning News Vote ...combines social bookmarking, blogging and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control" - we could not have said it any better.

Thanks again to Cyburbia for helping us spread the word.

Hoping to see you @ http://www.PlanningNewsVote.com/ .

PNV: A Month Old

A month back, we soft-launched PNV: PNV is a social-bookmarking website where planners can share and discover planning news. Thanks to our users/editors , what is becoming a clear advantage is our diversity of news topics:

• In Published News - Our most popular bookmark has been StreetFilms > Paint a Parking Lot, Put Up a Paradise by nickyg . Then there's the link to Commissioners approve yearlong Lake Erie wind turbine study by jsmuscatello , and the bookmark to Former York Street Jail's Last Gasp by HeatherB .
  

• In Upcoming News - Our users/editors have shared links about Greenspan's new book , a European project , EDA reauthorization , mountaintop removal , global migration , rural development in the UK , NSCCAPA , Pontresina Switzerland , sustainability , urban renewal , SimCity , Los Angeles ...

As Jane Jacobs might have put it, the users/editors are "the eyes on the digital street".

And thanks to all the bloggers and websites for helping us spread the word- Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog, Planetizen, Cyburbia, spatiallink_org et al.

Hoping to see you @ http://www.PlanningNewsVote.com/ .

PNV: Social-bookmarking of Planning News

Earlier this month, we had a soft-launch of Planning News Vote (PNV): PNV is a social-bookmarking website where planners can share and discover news webpages.

With so many news websites and feeds, what news is more relevant to the planning community? Well, now you can find out by participating at PNV where planning news is organized by community votes. We are hoping that this service proves useful to our planning community.

As with so many social-networking websites, PNV's success primarily depends on ease-of-use and word-of-mouth. We think that we have the first in the bag, and are largely counting on viral-marketing for the second.

Hoping to see you at http://www.PlanningNewsVote.com/ .

PNV: Social Networking for Planners

As you can see from the screenshot above, our vote-based approach would help find out what is more important to our planning community by collectively ranking relevant planning news.

We are hoping you can help us spread the word through your email, blog, podcast, website or newsletter.

Hoping to see you at http://www.PlanningNewsVote.com/ .

PNV: Social-networking Websites and Community Access to Information

How much do social-networking websites further the cause of better community access to information, atleast among the large connected communities? And how much do they hurt that cause by mis-framing the issues? What about deliberate obfuscations through information-overload?

We think that at the end, the websites contribute positively by bridging the information-gaps and making the uncertain familiar. That is also why our vote-based approach to planning news is important. Anthony Williams of 'Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything' seems to agree.

Hoping to see you at http://www.PlanningNewsVote.com/ .

PNV: It is Digg for all news planning!

We are just starting a planning news website at http://www.PlanningNewsVote.com/ .

As its user, you participate in determining all website news by discovering, posting, commenting, voting (or burying) and sharing the planning news that matters to you!

Hoping to see you at http://www.PlanningNewsVote.com/ .