Goodbye Namola Watch, hello Namola Communities

Namola has launched an incredibly exciting feature called Namola Communities, which allows for people to manage the safety of their community in one app - the Namola app. 

 

To make way for this social safety platform, that puts the power of safety into the community, Namola Watch will be coming to an end on the 1st of April 2021

 

We encourage all previous Namola Watch Responders to therefore take this opportunity to create a community group and invite their community members to take part in the action by posting safety concerns, or reporting real emergencies. With members of the community using this platform, your safety catch net widens and as a responder can ensure that you are able to provide assistance where necessary, whether it be preventing incidents from escalating or being the first person on scene when emergencies take place. It’s once central place for concerned community members and selfless responders to engage, safely. 

 

Starting a community is easy. 

 

The first thing to be done of course, is to create your Community. Have a read of this article on everything you need to know about starting a community.

 

Spread the word

Once you have created your community, we encourage you to spread the word about your community to your community members. You can do it easily with these steps:

  • Open Namola
  • Go to Newsfeed and tap the Settings button in the top right
  • Tap on your Community’s name
  • Tap on “Share” (near the bottom of the options)
  • Choose "Share Link”

You can also automatically add members to your Community by: 

  • Open Namola 
  • Go to Newsfeed and tap the Settings button in the top right
  • Tap on your Community’s name
  • Tap “Add members” 
  • Select contacts from your address book. 

 

Useful information:

We have put together some useful resources for you and for you to share with your community members:

 

  1. Everything you need to know about Communities
  2. Get Started with Communities.
  3. Managing Communities
  4. Posting in a Community

 

Feedback:

We would love to hear from you on how we can make Communities the best platform to make your local community safe by sharing incidents, posting about suspicious activity in your neighbourhood, and helping each other out. To give us feedback please simply use this Feedback Form.