UTPL Loves Being on TV
We had a great opportunity this week when Ashleigh Walters from WLTX interviewed Representative Nathan Ballentine and UTPL about the popularity of sctweets.com and Twitter. By now if you know Wesley Donehue or myself, you probably have a good idea of what twitter is (hopefully you follow us on twitter!)… but in case you missed it… twitter is simply a micro-blogging service that allows you to tell people what you are doing. If you are familiar with Facebook, it is similar to your status update.
Now why is this important? Well… its important for many reasons- its important for our elected officials to inform their communities what they are doing (which is what sctweets does!). It’s great for communication (think of it as a conversation starter) and its very fun. It can also be used to help promote a business or idea or your very own blog!
Blog? What’s a blog you say? Just take that short sentence you wrote for your twitter account and expand on it. Blogs keep your websites fresh and give the reader more information than just “what are you doing.” Under the Power Lines is excited about twittering and blogging because we don’t like brochure sites. Brochure sites never change; they don’t engage your voter. Blogs and Twitter actively engage, organize and involve the voter in an on-going conversation.
We love blogs and we love twitter.
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