Where do you get local news and new ideas? Where do you share information? Will you get involved in our public conversations? The use of social media has become an increasingly more effective way to communicate with people throughout a community. After conducting a brief search, I concluded that a number of cities are using social media outlets such as tweeter and facebook to communicate keep the citizens informed of the local events and changes that occurring within their community. Since both of these sites are free, they provide a cost effective way to communicate with a large number of people at the click of a button. Over the course of time information regarding the events that took place in a community were posted at the local post office, town newspaper, local radio advertisement, or on a flyer posted at the community center. The idea is to get people talking, and to keep them informed about “What’s going on in Hillsboro”. Purposeful conversations would be started all over town, and ideas would be shared with everyone.
Check out this link for more on the discussion:
http://buzzmaster.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/cities-adopting-social-media/
Here are a few sample Facebook pages:
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