Burbio Arrives In Fair Lawn

Burbio has been spreading quickly throughout New Jersey and it now has arrived in the The Borough of Fair Lawn. The free website, app and voice activation connection with Alexa allows Fair Lawn community events and activities – government, school, library and nonprofit – to become accessible easily in one personalized event feed for residents.

A digitized platform that helps people organize their local activities lists, Burbio streams hyper local calendars into one easy-to-manage schedule. The online tool permits residents to follow the flow of important daily activities and sync events to a digital calendar. It ensures that families never miss a school event or an important community meeting.

Burbio is active in more than 200 communities, including Ridgewood, Glen Rock and most of Bergen County in New Jersey. Besides the desktop and mobile web service, IOS application and Android app, all events also are structured for discovery in Google Search.

In Fair Lawn, as in other communities, Burbio is a free service for residents and for local nonprofits to promote events. With Burbio, the community calendars of Fair Lawn’s civic partners are integrated to ensure that residents do not miss the best and most important local activities.

“Civic engagement is about making information easier to access for residents, and making it easier for groups throughout our city to use technology to generate awareness about their events,” said Fair Lawn Mayor Lisa Swain. “Fair Lawn is a vibrant community with great schools, a thriving non-profit community, and a diverse and growing business community, and Burbio’s accessible platform – mobile, computer, voice – allows for residents to get information the way they prefer.”

Community celebrations, special recreation activities, important school dates, library activities and nonprofit fundraisers are among the local events already featured on Burbio.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Fair Lawn,” said Burbio co-founder Julie Roche. “The borough runs a terrific communication platform and we are excited to be able to integrate that with everything going on in town.”

An Improved Schedule Management System

The digitized scheduling idea was created by Julie and her husband, Dennis. Residents of New York’s Westchester County, they realized that they needed a better way to manage the schedules of their four sons.

“When you think about all the things you can do digitally—booking flights, tables at restaurants, managing music—we found that managing local events was really behind the times,” added Julie. “Recalling the times and places of events was difficult, because every organization established a different calendar on separate websites and in various formats. We decided to look for a digital solution that worked for us.”

Their research led to the creation of Burbio, now in its third year with daily expansion to new markets and the inclusion of additional calendars.

“Until we figured how to create this digital personal calendar concept, a place did not exist to coordinate everything we needed to know to manage all the activities and necessary information for the happenings within our community,” said Dennis.

The same had been true for Fair Lawn residents. They now have a digitized tool that helps them coordinate their local activities.