The county that tweets
County officials are embracing the latest internet technologies.
Today, while visiting with Don Mohler, a spokesman for County Executive Jim Smith, our conversation turned to Twitter.
For the uninitiated, Twitter is social networking site, a kind of a running blog where members post 140-character updates (about the length of a standard text message) called tweets.
The tweets can be about almost anything your heart desires and can include links to photos and Web sites. Then people known as followers can receive your updates and constantly know what you’re up to at any given moment.
Government employees, elected officials and even newspaper reporters are using this more and more as a way to quickly get information out.
And that brings us back to Mohler, who was fascinated by the idea of such a site and quickly went to the site to get his own account. Others in his office are bound to join in.
I’ve been following him all day since he established his account and anxiously await his first post.
You can follow me on Twitter @bpsears.