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Our facebook group [28.10.2008]

One of the ways that Renew Newcastle came to life was via our facebook group.

The Facebook group was founded when Renew Newcastle was just a pipe dream. We had no support, no staff, no money and weren't all that confident that anyone would get behind our proposal for activating Newcastle's CBD.

Yet, less than 48 hours after the group was founded Renew Newcastle had attracted over 500 members. Within a few days that had topped over a thousand, and at last count our group was on 1750 members! The success of the Facebook group was one of the biggest single factors in convincing us that the time for this idea had come and for demonstrating to the rest of the community that we had a wide range of local, national and intentional support.

Renew Newcastle would like thank all of our Facebook members - particularly those only ones. If you're a member of Facebook and not yet a member of the Renew Newcastle group, we'd encourage you to join our supporters group.