Description
A hurdle to start a business is not always resources but connections. To make it easier for someone to launch their big idea, we created Homestead Connect. Invite members of your community, organization or even company to add themselves to the visual directory. They can label themselves with the categories you choose. Then, when someone is looking to connect with a developer, manager, mentor or another category, they can easily filter and find that person.
With a Facebook integration, this visual directory makes it easy for you to connect your community and help them connect with one another.
Background
Homestead Connect was developed as an open source tool with the Small Business Association’s Start-Up in a Day Competition. Brookings, SD was a winner of that competition and our goal was to help creatives in Brookings find and connect with one another. We also wanted to make our community more welcoming to newcomers, so this tool was created with that goal in mind.
Now, Homestead Connect is open to anyone. We invite you to use this tool and share with us the unique ways it can help people connect. Visit YourHomestead.org to share your stories and find more tools that help build community.