I have been discussing for some time the need to get more of our elected officials to interact and offer constituent services online. Toward that end, I have added a new feature to The World Around You, a page called Alabama Officials & Social Media. I intend for it to be a one-stop shop to find out where you can find your elected representatives online, or not, as the case may be. I hope you will express your appreciation to your representatives that have made themselves accessible online and perhaps question those who have not.
I chose to only include information regarding Facebook, Twitter and Politics4All.com on the inline documents on the page itself. There is also a link to the master spreadsheets that will allow you to see information about e-mail, personal websites as well as the phone numbers and office numbers for legislators. I will say that there are some representatives who have gone the personal website/e-mail route for consitutuent communication and are doing it well, but have not yet integrated that activity with a Facebook or Twitter page, which would not be hard to do.
I hope that by tracking this information on a consistent basis all Alabama citizens will be able to be more fully engaged with their representatives in government.
As always, your thoughts and reactions are appreciated below.
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RT @TWAY_Kris Happy to have launched the AL Officials & Social Media page so close to my 8,000th tweet http://bit.ly/2lXrkc #alpolitics
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The World Around You: Where to find Alabama Officials Online: I have been discussing for some time the need to get mo… http://bit.ly/jpYcP
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Go here! @TWAY_Kris has launched the Alabama Officials & Social Media page http://bit.ly/2lXrkc #alpolitics
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This is a tremendous resource! RT @TWAY_Kris: I've launched the Alabama Officials & Social Media… page http://bit.ly/2lXrkc #alpolitics
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Using firefox 3.5 under OpenBSD, word wrapping don’t seem quite right, text overlaps the side bar and becomes unreadable.
Otherwise, a good effort and thanks for the work.
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Thanks Walt, I’m not 100% satisfied with how the page is showing on either Firefox or IE at the moment, but the spreadsheets are good in either one.
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The google spreadsheets work fine. Over at the parlor, working on getting all the announced candidates websites listed and maybe a link to the their FEC/FCPA report archives. Problem is that many of the press releases published by the papers don’t include a url which could be a Hanlon’s Razor problem.
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I re-formatted the Alabama Officials and Social Media page, let me know if you still have trouble viewing http://bit.ly/2lXrkc
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Also follow @TWAY_Kris/alabama-elected-officals based on my directory of AL Officials & Social Media http://bit.ly/2lXrkc #alpolitics
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RT Follow @TWAY_Kris/alabama-elected-officals based on directory of AL Officials & Social Media http://bit.ly/2lXrkc #alpolitics
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RT @TWAY_Kris: Also follow alabama-elected-officals based on my directory of AL Officials & Social Media http://bit.ly/2lXrkc #alpolitics
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RT @TWAY_Kris: directory of AL Officials & Social Media http://bit.ly/2lXrkc #alpolitics
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follow @TWAY_Kris/alabama-elected-o… based on my directory of AL Officials & Social Media http://bit.ly/2lXrkc #alpolitics
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I do not care about language, but if a person can not read a road sign then they should not be driving in the United States.,
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