Here’s Wandsworth’s Councillor James Cousins on the value of interactivity for councillors:
“What is surprising is not just how many local people were tweeting, but how many were eager to engage and use Twitter to communicate with their councillor. While I often sit in a draughty library with no-one attending my surgery it is quite the reverse in the ‘Twitterverse’ where people are keen to ask questions or air local issues with me. In the past week alone parks, parking, traffic, policing and business issues have all been raised with me via Twitter. Like any dialogue, you get out what you put in. For me, Twitter has been incredibly rewarding.”
And here’s Hugh Flouch of Harringay Online re-cycling a comment that has appeared on the site there:
“As a local councillor I’m now reliant on bulletins from HarringayOnline to find out what’s going on”
Oh, that last quote – I saw it on Twitter – where else?
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