Going Local

I just read an interesting piece about how Twitter is being used by various folks in nearby Pleasantville, NY.

@Pleasantville has a following of 115 mostly local individuals and organizations. The next goal for the @Pleasantville project is to dramatically increase the number of businesses participating, giving local residents more incentive to sign up for Twitter. I’m shooting for 500 mostly local followers by the end of June, and my plan is to make regular posts to this blog to keep readers informed about our progress. The real goal, of course, is not about numbers of followers, but of bringing benefits to the local community.

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Back home in Pound Ridge, I’m helping out a friend who’s running for local office and unlike my run two years ago, social media has grown to the point where we can realistically use tools like Twitter and Facebook to get our message out.

In searching around the neighborhood, I found a handful of Pound Ridge-related twitter accounts. Bonnie Brodnick, local author and journalist covering all things Northern Westchester is @bonni_brodnick. I’ve also discovered Bonnie is blogging. Who knew?

Pound Ridge’s controversial golf course has a Twitter account but nothing there about the pesticides found in neighbors’ drinking water. Just platitudes. What a wasted opportunity.

Finally there’s the Pound Ridge Nurseries’s twitter feed and blog. Both great resources from a great local institution that I’m glad to have found.

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