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Flickr is a popular online image and video hosting website that allows users to upload and share media. The site is also popular with bloggers as a way to host images that they embed in blogs and social media.

Most people remember childhood scavenger hunts, but communities have used the game to build community, identify local assets and character, and sometimes take advantage of new GIS and location-based tools.

An online virtual 3-D world, Second Life allows users to create their own “sims” (virtual characters), explore the virtual world, meet and interact with others, buy or rent land, build objects and offer services, and develop relationships.

uMAP is a participatory youth community mapping process that facilitates social action and neighborhood change. Mapping is based on young people’s everyday lives, perceptions, values, assets and needs.

Do you ever think about building, or fixing up, a playground? The KaBOOM! Project Planner is a step by step tool that has everything you need to learn, plan, organize and build a playground or site enhancement project.

Youth Master Planning, a comprehensive process to plan for issues facing young people, brings together stakeholders including parents, teachers, employers, and youth. This method of community planning is taking hold in cities throughout America.

UMAP is a community mapping tool used to engage youth in social action and neighborhood change by allowing them to influence community needs, including infrastructure, social services, safety, affordable housing and access to recreation.

Using the Box City curriculum, participants construct buildings and cities out of boxes to learn about planning and land use or explore what they want for their town.

Essay contests are used to collect stories and opinions about a community and engage people in thinking about the community's future. They can be very open-ended or be directed to address specific community planning or character issues.