24 HOUR: A Twitter experiment in local government « The Dan Slee Blog

Using a variety of Twitter accounts, FaceBook pages and Flikr, a town in the UK took to tweeting all of its activities during a 24 hour period - from pothole filling to curating a museum. This amounts to a creative effort on the part of a municipality to broadcast all that it does as a way to further engage and educate their residents in what makes local government tick. Perhaps imaginative use of electronic social networks is one way to bridge the divide between the governors and the governed.

This would be a much more proactive step than the continual retreat of our local Lake Worth government  from interacting and soliciting input from the public.  I am sure that those on our dais would have 5,000 plus reasons why we can't or shouldn't do this.

Speaking of that, I have signed up - at least 5 times - for the past current versions of Tropical Mail or Lake Worth News or whatever they are calling it now coming from city hall through the city hall website. Either I am specifically being blocked from receiving updates, which is entirely possible, or the city just doesn't send much out - period. Has anyone else had a similar experience?  When I do get something, others don't and vice versa - it's like the city has more than one e-mail list.  You can try your luck by clicking here and going to the city's website to register for "Lake Worth News."

Click here for further information on the UK municipality story at the Personal Democracy Forum, Tech President blog.  Click title for link to the Dan Slee Blog.