I-Neighbors is currently available only within the United States and Canada.

Enter your zip/postal code in the search box on the main page.

If you do not already have an account, create one on the main page. Once your account is created you will see a list of neighborhoods you can join in your zip/postal code. If you are already an i-Neighbors member and sign in to the site. Once you have logged in to the site, you will see a drop down box next to the i-Neighbors logo, select the option to find more neighborhoods, and then enter the zip/postal code for the neighborhood you would like to join.

Yes. Once you have logged in to the site, you will see a drop down box next to the i-Neighbors logo, select the option to find more neighborhoods, and then enter the zip/postal code for the neighborhood you would like to join.

If there is no registered neighborhood in your zip/postal code, you can be the first to create one. First, sign in or create an account. Enter your zip/postal code in the search box on the front page, if your neighborhood is not listed then click on the button to Create a New Neighborhood.

Only the neighborhood administrator can change the name and description of your neighborhood.

Contact your neighborhood administrator, they can adjust the location of your neighborhood on the map under the neighborhood settings link (only available to neighborhood administrators). The neighborhood settings link is visible when an administrator signs-in to their i-Neighbors account. To find out who the neighborhood administrator is for your i-Neighbors community, sign-in and click on About this neighborhood.

No. i-Neighbors communities can be public or private. Anyone can join a public neighborhood. Neighborhood administrators control membership in private communities.

Once you have logged in to the site, you will see a drop down box next to the i-Neighbors logo with a list of all the neighborhoods to which you are a member. Select the neighborhood you want to visit, or select the option to search for additional neighborhoods.

Each neighborhood has a directory that lists all registered members from your neighborhood.

Yes. All i-Neighbors groups should be real geographic neighborhoods. We recommend that i-Neighbors communities represent areas that are smaller than a city or town, no more than 500 households or one apartment building.

Once a community group has been created, it cannot be deleted.

Your neighborhood homepage is the public information i-Neighbors displays about your neighborhood. This information is editable by the neighborhood administrator. It includes your neighborhood name, description, a map, and information on how to join the group. It also includes photos that have been contributed by group members (visible when you click on the house icon on the map). Your neighborhood homepage is: http://www.i-neighbors.org/YOURZIPCODE/NEIGHBORHOODNAME. You can also find your neighborhood URL when you sign-in and click on About This Neighborhood.

Each neighborhood has a neighborhood administrator that can delete any poll, calendar event, document, link, photo, album, review, and most other content with the exception of neighborhood Discussion messages.

You can recover your password on the main page. Enter your email address in the sign-in box and click on "Forgot your password?".

Your username is the email address associated with your account.

Any member of i-Neighbors can join a public neighborhood. Membership in private neighborhoods is controlled by a neighborhood administrator. The content of private neighborhoods, such as the directory and discussions, can only be viewed by members of the neighborhood. Each member is approved individually by the community administrator. The administrator also has the ability to remove users and delete all content except for discussion messages.

The neighborhood administrator is usually the person who created the i-Neighbors community for your area. However, the neighborhood administrator can transfer their privileges to another i-Neighbors member. To find out who the neighborhood administrator is for your i-Neighbors community, sign-in and click on "About this neighborhood".

Neighborhood administrators are i-Neighbors users with some additional privileges. The can change the neighborhood name and description, make the neighborhood public or private, control membership, and control content (except for discussion content).

You will need to contact i-Neighbors, we will ask another member of your neighborhood to take on the role of administrator.

i-Neighbors believes in giving an unmediated voice to all users. For this reason, neighborhood administrators cannot delete messages sent to the community by other users.

There can be only one neighborhood administrator in each community.

The inbox stores all messages you have sent or received from other i-Neighbors users in your community. Unlike discussion, the inbox is for one-to-one messages from individual users. You can use the inbox to send messages directly to another user and to check for replies. When another user sends you a message you are notified about the message according to the personal message notification settings that can be adjusted by clicking on Your Settings.

To send a private message to one i-Neighbors user, sign-in to your i-Neighbors account, click on "directory", find the name of the user you want to contact and click on "message".

Only you can view the contents of your inbox by logging into the i-Neighbors website.

The Activity Wall is one of the first things you see when you sign into a neighborhood. The Activity Wall is a summary of all the activity of other users. For example, the wall records discussion comments, profile updates, the addition of new content, and when new users join a neighborhood. You can adjust your Activity Wall notifications by clicking on Your Settings. You can also be notified of new activity by subscribing to the Activity Wall RSS feed.

You can change the frequency at which you are notified of changes to the Activity Wall by logging into i-Neighbors and clicking on "Your Settings".

You can now subscribe to i-Neighbors "discussions" and other "activity" using RSS. To use RSS with i-Neighbors, sign-in to your account and click on the RSS icons next to the "discussion" and "activity" walls. A RSS feed is a web page that is checked by a software tool called a news aggregator that can notify you when new content is available. If you subscribe to the "Discussion" feed, you can easily find out when someone has started or commented on a discussion. If you subscribe to the "activity" feed, you can find out when someone contributes a review, poll, document or other content. When you click on the orange icon, in most web browsers you will be given a choice of news agitators that are available on your system. Our current favorites include those offered by Google and Bloglines, web-based applications that do not require any installation.

You can adjust the frequency at which i-Neighbors notifies you of new discussions, activity by other users in your neighborhood, or personal messages by logging in to the i-Neighbors website and clicking on "Your Settings".

No. All that is required to participate in i-Neighbors is your first name, email address, and zip/postal code.

Any member of a neighborhood to which you belong can see your profile information.

Yes. Sign in to your i-Neighbors account and click on "Your Settings"

If you belong to more than one i-Neighbors community, your primary neighborhood is the community information you see first when you sign in to i-Neighbors. You an change your primary neighborhood by clicking on "Your Settings".

Any member of a neighborhood to which you belong can see your profile information.

Sign in to your i-Neighbors community and click on "Discussion." You will see the option to start a "new discussion" or "comment" on an existing discussion.

To start a discussion on a new topic, sign-in and click on the discussion menu. From this menu you can start a new discussion or comment on an existing topic. You can sign-in to reply to a discussion, or if your settings are set to receive emails as new comments are added, you can reply by email with your comment.

Yes. You can control individual and discussion messages by clicking on "Your Settings".

No. But you can upload a document or create a link to a file by clicking on "Links and Files".

You can check or adjust your message settings by clicking on "Your Settings".

Any member of the neighborhood can see calendar events.

Once you add an event to the calendar neighbors are notified on the Activity Wall, by RSS feed, and through email notifications. On the Sunday before the event is scheduled, an event reminder is automatically posted to the Activity Wall, RSS, and an additional email notification is created.

Sign -in to i-Neighbors and click on links & files.

Sign -in to i-Neighbors and click on "links & files".

Sign -in to i-Neighbors and click on "reviews".

Sign -in to i-Neighbors and click on "polls".

The i-Neighbors system will allow each user to vote on each poll only one time.

Once you have noted in a poll you will be able to see the results of the poll as other users vote.

Sign-in to i-Neighbors and click on "photos".

Sign-in to i-Neighbors and click on "Your Profile".

Any member of the neighborhood where you create an album or upload a photo can see those images. In addition, checking the "mashup" option next to the settings for your image (in the photos section) will display your image on your neighborhood's homepage.

Images added to the photos section are automatically added to your neighborhood's homepage. Individual users can opt to remove an image that they contribute by changing the "mashup" setting for individual images in the photo section. To view images on the neighborhood homepage, visit the URL unique for your neighborhood and click on the house icon on the map. Your neighborhood homepage is: http://www.i-neighbors.org/YOURZIPCODE/NEIGHBORHOODNAME. You can also find your neighborhood URL when you sign in and click on "About This Neighborhood".

Sign -in to i-Neighbors and click on "Your Settings". From the "Leave neighborhood" list, select the neighborhood you would like to leave and click "Update",

To complete close your i-Neighbors account sign-in to the i-Neighbors website, click on Your Settings and select Yes under Deactivate i-Neighbors Membership and click Update. This option will close your i-Neighbors account. You will be removed from all neighborhood directories, you will no longer be able to receive RSS updates, or receive messages from other i-Neighbors users.

A scaled down version of the i-Neighbors website is available at http://m.i-neighbors.org. Like the full site, you can access content from your neighborhood group and contribute to the neighborhood forum. However, the mobile version of the site does not support all of the features of the full website.

Use the Safari browser to browse to http://m.i-neighbors.org. Press the Add icon +, and then select Add to Home Screen.