Greener Leith has launched a new experiment. It's a social network. And it needs you. And you're probably thinking - oh no, not another website thing I have to sign up for and worry about. And we'd understand. But before you switch off completely please do consider signing up. Here's a few reasons why we think it might work.

It's free, and...

There's no other social network out there that's dedicated to Leithers who are interested in improving their neighbourhood. If we can bring people together easily then perhaps it'll be easier to get stuff happening faster, and more easily. So far we've set up open groups focussed on Food, Planning & Regeneration, Leith Links Improvements, and our We Love Leith travel campaign. If any of those topics interest you, why not sign-up and join one of the groups?

If you're part of an exisiting group, club, campaign or community council The Leith Social could be really useful. You could set up your own group and use it to network your members together. The site provides loads of useful tools for sharing events, reports, videos and photos. It even has a chat function - so if you find it hard to get your members all together in one place - you could meet on-line, and discuss things in 'real time' through the site. Lastly, by taking part in a local network, your organisation is more likely to reach other like minded people who could support what you do.

If your organisation has a website already - it would compliment that by adding a 'social' angle. If your site already has an RSS feed then you can import your content to your group on The Leith Social, so you don't need to type out everything twice! 

If your group doesn't have a website yet, then perhaps a group on The Greener Leith Social could be all you need to show people what you do.

And did we mention that it's free?

However, it will only work if it lots of people join it, and make use of it. So far quite a few folk have signed up, but we still need more. We'd love it if you signed up, and gave it a try. If you find it's not for you, please tell us to let us know if there's something else we could do?

And lastly, if you do sign-up and find it all a bit bewildering, but would still like to set up a group - then please let us know, and we'll do it for you.

You can sign-up to join the Greener Leith Social here.