Town of Cary - Social Media

The Town of Cary has dipped their toe into social media just a little more than the few twitter accounts they have had.  3 Facebook pages and a YouTube channel!  This got me thinking about the last Economic Development Committee meeting at the Town on June 6 where we were discussing social media:
http://ianhenshaw.blogspot.com/2012/06/economic-development-committee-mtg.html

There was still a reluctance from the group that social media was worth the effort.  There was some discussion about the Technology Task Force that was approved at the May 24th Council meeting.

I was going through some old e-mails and I remembered one thing that was going on during the meeting.  I had seen a tweet about a new Economic Development Partnership Website launch in Raleigh.  I pulled up the pages on my iPad and was showing this to Howard Johnson and Sandy Jordan during the meeting to see if it struck a chord with them that we were possibly being left in the dust and that Raleigh had found out that they could use social media for economic development.  I was disappointed in their reactions and after mulling it over after the meeting, I sent the following e-mail to the group:

FYI.  I saw this late today (tipped off by a Tweet...)

New Economic Development Partnership Website Launched (Raleigh)
http://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/NCRALEIGH-434a60 (Press Release)
http://www.investraleigh.com/ (Website)

Follow us:
http://www.facebook.com/RaleighPlanning (Facebook)
http://twitter.com/RalEconDev (Twitter)
http://www.youtube.com/cityofraleigh (You Tube)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raleighgov/ (Flickr)

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https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/NCRALEIGH/subscriber/new?topic_id=NCRALEIGH_166
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• Facebook
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I am hoping that the push by Councilor Lori Bush on technology and the approval of the Technology Task Force has pushed the Town staff to realize that social media is a powerful tool to use to communicate with the citizens of the Town of Cary.  Hopefully the Cary Chamber will follow.