Neighborhood America Partners with Leading Transportation Planning Organizatio

November 30, 2007 - Neighborhood America, the leading enterprise social network solutions provider, today announced a partnership with the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations ("AMPO"). The partnership aims to offer more cost-effective public involvement technology solutions to AMPO members across the country. AMPO members represent more than half of the nation's 385 Metropolitan Planning Organizations ("MPOs"), which are responsible for improving metropolitan transportation systems across the United States.

Citizen participation is critical to the success of transportation planning, and yet gaining a representative voice from those who will be affected by such plans has become a difficult challenge for local planning organizations. AMPO chose to partner with Neighborhood America to help its members usher in a new era of public participation via the Web, making it easier to include the voice of the public in the decision-making process.

"MPOs are constantly challenged to connect with their citizens who are impacted by the decisions being made on their behalf," said Harrison Rue, Executive Director at the Charlottesville-Albemarle MPO in Virginia. "Neighborhood America's solution will add tremendous value to their planning processes and ultimate successes."

Neighborhood America's Public Comment® solution maintains the organizational standards necessary to capture constructive and reportable public comment, and enables organizations to reach a much wider audience through the Web. With this partnership, members of AMPO will gain the opportunity to streamline their education and decision-making processes at a significant discount, with the tools they need to increase citizen participation, manage both online and offline public comment, and quickly report findings to support recommendations.

"Increasingly, public agencies are learning that there is a difference between simply reaching constituents online and really engaging them," said Dan Bevarly, Neighborhood America's Senior Director of Business Development. "If the experience is meaningful and beneficial to both sides, then relationships can be built, sustained, and mutually productive."

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About Neighborhood America Neighborhood America enables organizations to build enterprise social networks that deliver results aligned with their strategic objectives. By building high value communities, organizations can leverage Web and mobile devices to engage audiences, facilitate ongoing dialogue around brands or campaigns, and gain continued business intelligence from consumers. The company's highly scalable 'Software as a Service' solutions include award-winning software, secure hosting, and exceptional service by a team of experts. Learn why customers including Scripps Networks, FOX News, Adidas and Meredith Corporation are turning to Neighborhood America to gain a competitive advantage by visiting www.neighborhoodamerica.com.

About AMPO AMPO is a nonprofit, membership organization established in 1994 to serve the needs and interests of metropolitan planning organizations ("MPOs") nationwide. Federal highway and transit statutes require, as a condition for spending federal highway or transit funds in urbanized areas, the designation of MPOs, which have responsibility for planning, programming and coordination of federal highway and transit investments. AMPO offers its member MPOs technical assistance and training, conferences and workshops, frequent print and electronic communications, research, a forum for transportation policy development and coalition building, and a variety of other services. For more information, visit www.ampo.org.