North Rim Homeowners Association Nextdoor
Travis County Sheriff's Office
Travis County Sheriff’s Office uses Nextdoor to provide important information, like crime and safety updates, to residents using the platform. Read more.
“We are excited that, through the city and county’s use of Nextdoor, nearly all our residents will receive crime and safety updates from their policing agency.”
— Sheriff Hamilton of Travis County
Chief benefits Nextdoor offers as compared
to Facebook Groups, Yahoo! Groups, etc.
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Address verification to ensure that the
people on Nextdoor are really neighbors.
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An Urgent Alerts feature, which makes
it possible to blast out urgent information (emergency, crime, etc.) by text message,
as well as email.
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A dedicated Crime and Safety section.
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The ability for members to control their
email settings based on the types of messages they want to receive.
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The ability to communicate with people
who live near you, but outside the neighborhood through the Nearby Neighborhoods feature, as well as the
ability to create public or private sub-groups.
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A dynamically updated neighborhood directory, which is built on top of real
profile pages.
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A Recommendations section which
archives recommendations by category making it much easier to browse and
find information over time.
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Classifieds and Free Items categories
which makes this kind of exchange
easier and more efficient than a purely message based solution.
Not a Social Media Site
North Rim Neighborhood and Nextdoor
Travis County Sheriff's Office partnered with Nextdoor, a private network for neighbors, in an effort to improve safety and communication. Nextdoor is a free service available both online or through smartphone apps, that allows residents to communicate with one another on a variety of topics that are neighborhood related.
NRHOA and North Rim Neighborhood
North Rim neighborhood is active and listed in Nextdoor. Homeowners can register here to be part of this private group.
Nextdoor is not sanctioned by NRHOA nor is it used as official means of communication. It is however, a great way to stay connected in an effort to prevent crime, increase awareness, and communicate events and needs.
All official communication from NRHOA will been done by U.S. mail, email from northrimleander@gmail.com, or on this website.
Privacy and Online Safety
Info from NextDoor.com: Fences are sometimes necessary. But online privacy is always necessary. Nextdoor makes it safe to share online the kinds of things you'd be okay sharing with your neighbors in person.
Here's how:
Every neighbor has to verify their address.
Every neighbor signs in with their real name. Just like in person.
Your website is protected by password and encrypted by HTTPS.
We never share your info with advertisers.
Information shared will never show up in Google or other search engines.
Nextdoor never shares your personal information with third-party advertisers
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