Sway, Inc. today launched its new online community, Neighborhood Crossing, a free online social community specifically for neighborhoods.

Neighborhood Crossing provides a safe online community allowing people to do everything from starting a playgroup or scheduling a barbecue to developing neighborhood crime watch groups. The site also allows users to create their own blogs, upload photos, post classified ads, list items available for sharing and participate in online discussion forms. Knowing your neighbors can help prevent crime.

“It’s difficult to communicate effectively without a tool like Neighborhood Crossing,” said Julie Blatt, who served as homeowner’s association president for her Oklahoma-neighborhood last year. “Over many months we developed our own web site to share a community calendar and post important information. If Neighborhood Crossing had existed last year we could have saved ourselves a lot of time, money and headaches.”

“Although people live close to each other, in such a tech-driven world it’s becoming more and more difficult to connect in person. Neighborhood Crossing allows neighbors to meet and interact online while working in tandem with relationships that they then carry offline,” said Sway CEO and Chief Marketing Strategist Jason Weaver.

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