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~ About the Commons Suite ~
~ Our Mission Statement ~
~ Frequently Asked Questions ~
The Tata Commons is our local online site for the Tatamagouche community, broadly defined as Bayview to Brule to Denmark to New Annan, folks in the "microregion" who call Tatamagouche home.
The Commons Community Suite, an online platform that provides small rural towns like ours with its own local "information plumbing," helps its members self-organize, to save nuisance, money, carbon emissions, effort, and time.
A free online Commons means a place to share information: Classified/want ads, Events, local small Business Info, local services, and the other things that make up a community. With a Commons, we can self-organize Carpools and commutes to Truro, Halifax, Amherst, Pugwash, or Pictou, to save ourselves $$$ and CO2. We can share tools, and musical instruments, and equipment with each other. We can make plans more effectively.
The creative potential of small communities to use the Web to self-organize has been largely untapped. The Tata Commons, and other Commons Communities elsewhere, are trying to change that.
Our “Tata Metro Area” includes Tatamagouche, Brule, Bayview, West New Annan, over to Denmark -- there are no firm lines, of course -- but it includes anyone who explains where they live to outsiders as “near Tatamagouche.”
We shop at our Foodland, visit our Post Office, our local restaurants, our Scotiabank, our pharmacy... and we all live near each other, in a shared community. We like living here!
We can take advantage of that closeness -- to save money, reduce carbon emissions, and to live an even better life --
with a little help from the Tata Commons site.
The easiest way to save $$$ is to use the Commons' Carpool tool, which lets us self-organize longer trips, to places like Truro, Halifax, Amherst, Pugwash, or Pictou, with other members of our community. Using the Commons tool with a little forward planning can cut those travel costs in half or more. If you commute to those towns or others, the Commons Carpool might help you find other commuters making a similar trip, every day.
Our locally-run Businesses -- especially local bakers, egg producers, CSAs, and other primary producers nearby -- can list their services and products, like the old phone books' Yellow Pages did, but now locally maintained and searchable by any Tata Commons Member. Musical performances, theatre, and Special Events of all kinds can be listed in the Commons Calendar of Events, by any Member of the Commons.
The Commons Classified/Want Ads can help you find or offer local services, or borrow or rent a neighbor's machines, tools, or time. Want a music lesson, or to give away your piano? Post in the Classifieds! The Commons lets us send messages, questions, and notifications directly to other Members: “Really? I can have your piano just by picking it up?”
Throughout, there are options for messaging and communicating with the other Members of our community, as much or as little as you choose to do. Every Commons has a Manager (in this case, me, Michael Jensen) who is the main coordinator and cheerleader.
The possibilities for clever efficiencies within our community, once we can easily connect and coordinate, are immense.
Tatamagouche is our community, and if you are a member of it, you should be a member of TataCommons.com. Sign up now!
-- Michael Jensen
Manager, TataCommons.com
If you are NOT from Tatamagouche, please don't sign up (we aren't unfriendly, just local). Instead, try the Demo to see how this thing works, and then consider if you want to initiate a Commons Communities site for your village. It requires some time and effort, and isn't for everyone, but if you're interested in being an early Manager in your town, contact manager [AT] tatacommons.com to be added to our Yes! Interested! list.
The easiest way to save $$$ is to use the Commons' Carpool tool, which lets us self-organize longer trips, to places like Truro, Halifax, Amherst, Pugwash, or Pictou, with other members of our community. Using the Commons tool with a little forward planning can cut those travel costs in half or more. If you commute to those towns or others, the Commons Carpool might help you find other commuters making a similar trip, every day.
Our locally-run Businesses -- especially local bakers, egg producers, CSAs, and other primary producers nearby -- can list their services and products, like the old phone books' Yellow Pages did, but now locally maintained and searchable by any Tata Commons Member. Musical performances, theatre, and Special Events of all kinds can be listed in the Commons Calendar of Events, by any Member of the Commons.
The Commons Classified/Want Ads can help you find or offer local services, or borrow or rent a neighbor's machines, tools, or time. Want a music lesson, or to give away your piano? Post in the Classifieds! The Commons lets us send messages, questions, and notifications directly to other Members: “Really? I can have your piano just by picking it up?”
Throughout, there are options for messaging and communicating with the other Members of our community, as much or as little as you choose to do. Every Commons has a Manager (in this case, me, Michael Jensen) who is the main coordinator and cheerleader.
The possibilities for clever efficiencies within our community, once we can easily connect and coordinate, are immense.
Tatamagouche is our community, and if you are a member of it, you should be a member of TataCommons.com. Sign up now!
-- Michael Jensen
Manager, TataCommons.com
If you are NOT from Tatamagouche, please don't sign up (we aren't unfriendly, just local). Instead, try the Demo to see how this thing works, and then consider if you want to initiate a Commons Communities site for your village. It requires some time and effort, and isn't for everyone, but if you're interested in being an early Manager in your town, contact manager [AT] tatacommons.com to be added to our Yes! Interested! list.
New! Public Commons Calendar!
New! Public Business Listings!
Useful Documents:
Frequently Asked Questions about the Commons (Web page)
Member Guide to the Interface (8 pp., PDF)
Commons Communities Home Page
For more info: manager [at] tatacommons.com
New! Public Business Listings!
| Tata Commons Intro (80 secs) | ||
Frequently Asked Questions about the Commons (Web page)
Member Guide to the Interface (8 pp., PDF)
Commons Communities Home Page
For more info: manager [at] tatacommons.com