4. The What... TweetyHall is a constantly updated barometer of local issues. Powered by twitter we allow both councillors and citizens to track local politics in real time and connect to each other.
12. Functional Helps Councillors connect with their citizens Allows councillors to keep up with real time news “ It’s worth remembering that although most people don’t use twitter (yet) - the media and the political elite do” @antoniabance “ I can communicate my message and people can immediately respond – traditionally we have done this face to face, but more and more people communicate through social media and we need to keep up.” @dwoodend
16. And Away... “ Social media has given me the best policy research and feedback I’ve ever gotten. Twitter is no one way street. ... I can send out one tweet and it will reach more people than any newspaper in the city, my phone is a printing press in my pocket” @CoryBooker Mayor of Newark
Homepage highlights: hottest topics, mosta ctive users, party breakdown between the cllrs they have pver 85,000 followers.
THE HOW
Our blog, publication, collaboration, building a resource
We do this in two ways...
Make a note that we need to improve – still working on it
Blackburn council, Localgov official reacted quickly to the weather, setting up facebook accounts and twitter newsfeeds. Picked up by the online community, we blogged about it and the guardian society marked it out as gppd practice. Paul clarke linked back to the post commenting
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