$100 Visa Gift Card Giveaway – White Pages Neighbors

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Do you know your neighbors?  Are you friends with them?  We know a few of ours currently, but not quite as many as we did in our old neighborhood.  I am actively working on building friendly relationships with our neighbors, for several reasons.  Not only would it be fun to build a community in our cul-de-sac, but also for safety reasons.

I am happy to announce WhitePages Neighbors, a new free Block Party organizer and contact lookup product to help find the names and contact information for neighbors to promote neighborhood spirit, community partnerships and local safety.

RSVP Invite Card

Did you know that despite the fact that most American adults who have neighbors (93%) say it’s important for neighbors to look out for each other’s safety, a new survey conducted online in June 2011 by Harris Interactive on behalf of WhitePages found that more of them can identify most of their neighbors’ cars (47%) than most of their neighbors’ first names (41%) and that more of them (27%) know most of their neighbors’ pets more than most of their neighbors’ kids (24%).  This is sad but true – I can tell you the names of several of the neighbor’s pets (Muffy, Magnificat, etc. LOL), but I don’t know their owners very well!

National Night Out is coming up on August 2nd, which 37 million People participated in last year. In partnership with National Night Out, we’d like to help people plan even more block parties this year to help neighbors get to know each other (organize Neighborhood Watch programs, plan block parties, organize play dates, organize garage sales).

Because of my husband’s profession (a police officer), I know what an amazing program National Night Out is.  Every year, my husband attends the gatherings at various houses in his city.  This is a great program to go hand-in-hand with National Night Out!

The new Whitepages Neighbors product offers an aerial map of U.S. household contact information, including first and last name, mailing address, associated household members, and phone number to help neighbors more effectively get in touch. Going beyond making it easy to look up neighbors’ names and contact information, WhitePages has partnered with the National Night Out (NNO) to make it easy to plan a Block Party within a few clicks without having to worry about tracking down neighbor’s names and contact information by sending personalized postcard invites via the U.S. Postal Service for free. With the survey discovering that 34% of American adults who have neighbors do not feel comfortable asking their neighbors to keep an eye on their home when they go away, WhitePages and NNO hope people will use “Neighbors” Block Party invites to foster relationships that lead to effective neighborhood watch initiatives that promote local safety.

I think White Pages Neighbors is a really neat idea, and I cannot wait to get started.  One feature I really like is that you can claim and edit your own listing – I am big on privacy, so this is very important to me.

Remember: Sunday is the last day to get your Block Party invites out in time for a National Night Out Block Party on August 2nd!

What do you think?  Do you know your neighbors?  Does your neighborhood ever have block parties?

To celebrate White Pages neighbors, I have a fun giveaway below!

THE GIVEAWAY:

One (1) winner will receive a $100 Visa gift card – you might even want to plan your own block party with it!

For first (and required) entry, tell me why you are excited about White Pages Neighbors!