Despite being a week later than usual, April's Twitter chat was once again a lively conversation. To help cover our topic - Main Streets - more thoroughly, we were joined by Andrea Dono (better known in the Twitterverse as @NatlMainStreet) from the National Trust Main Street Center. We discussed cool Main Street rehabs and promotions, how online content and social media can help Main Streets (pro tip: make your location, phone number, and hours really, really easy to find), and the challenges faced on Main Streets.

Vintage postcard from Evansville, Indiana. (Image: alandberning on Flickr)

As the chat wound down, a new topic bubbled up: crowdsourced funding for Main Street projects. We didn't have time to cover it adequately, but after we finished, chatter Maianne Preble (@t4yt4m) sent along a few suggestions for sites to check out:

• Helpers Unite
• Peerbackers
• Start Some Good

There's a full transcript available, but the Storify covers the highlights - including some of the videos shared during the chat. (Keep an eye out for the zombies.)

Sarah Heffern is the social media strategist for the National Trust’s Public Affairs team. While she embraces all things online and pixel-centric, she’s also a hard-core building hugger, having fallen for preservation in a fifth grade “Built Environment” class.

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