In connection with today's Standard Examiner editorial on twitter (See Here), I am excited to see many of the candidates for Mayor making attempts to use Twitter and the Web. South Ogden City has been tweeting for about a month now. However they are missing the boat on its usefulness. They have about 22 followers last I checked, but they have refused to follow anyone back. I think people forget that communication is a two way street. If you want twitter, blogging, facebook, etc to be useful you have to communicate with the people not just announce things. Talk to the people of South Ogden.
Follow South Ogden here: Http://www.twiter.com/SouthOgdenCity
As for our Mayoral Candidates here is what I have found as far as websites, facebook and twitter:
Jim Minster:
- Website: http://jimminster4mayor.com/index.html - This is a flashy and smooth website. Simple text format and tons of good information. He really put a lot of time into it. Interestingly almost every sentence starts with "I".
- Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/jfminster>has 3 followers and is following 1 person. He has a few updates.
- Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/jfminster has a few updates on there and about 90 friends.
- Congrats to Jim for starting all of these, but now he needs to use them.
Vicki Mattson:
- Website: no website found (yet)
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/vmattsoncouncil yet she has no updates yet.
- Facebook: no facebook profile found (yet)
Rick Westmoreland:
- Website: http://rick4mayor.com/ -- A little simpler of a website, with lots of options to donate, call, setup meetings, etc. I like his FAQ page as well and he has tons of good info. Not too bad of a website. Content is better than Jim's but Jim's is more appealing to the eye.
- Twitter: Update: He is now on twitter - http://www.twitter.com/rtwestmoreland
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rick-T-Westmoreland-for-Mayor-2009-South-Ogden-City/105684402908
John Bradley:
- Website: http://www.southogdenmayor.com/ - Thanks to Reader Michael Booth. I find the fact that he names his site southogdenmayor a little pretentious. Plus it isn't much of a site. He does say he will fight to not raise taxes (but he did raise taxes while on the council).
- Twitter: None
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1708160326 (I think)
I am surprised more candidates are not embracing all of these tools, they are FREE! If I have missed any of their websites please let me know and I will update this page. But from looking at their signs and google searches I can't find anything. If your website doesn't come up on google, how will people find you?
Congrats to those who are trying to actually communicate with the people.
5 comments:
I received a flyer from John Bradley yesterday with his website. It's
www.southogdenmayor.com
And while guessing at Twitter names, I found that Mayor Garwood has a Twitter account (unused so far) at
www.twitter.com/southogdenmayor
Keep up the good work. I can't be there at the meet the candidates night but I'm interested to read your report for it.
Thanks for the post, I will update it.
John Bradley being "a little pretentious" - sounds about the way I remember him.
I'm still ticked off at him for how he handled himself over the debate on whether to run Cedar Lane through to the extension of Skyline six years ago.
Oh - another quick comment - in regards to John Bradley's website in particular.
But this is also one of my big pet peeves about politicians running for re-election, or for another elective office.
When those candidates sit there and list the problems we face, and the things that need to be done - my first response is always - "then what the heck have you been doing?"
If you're on the city council - and then running for mayor - and there's problems or things to be done - then maybe you should have done it when you were on the city council.
Bintohead
Great Points, you said it better than me.
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