Comments on: 3 Reasons Why Environmental Professionals Should Use Twitter

By: 5 Reasons Why the AEC Industry is 2 years behind in Adopting Social Media | Plannovation

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:17:50 +0000

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By: Kristen Carney

Kristen Carney — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:01:24 +0000

Keith,
Thanks so much for the kudos! They are really nice to hear.
Kristen

By: Keith Ruben

Keith Ruben — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:38:55 +0000

Kristen: Your web site is a marketing gem, and using social media for marketing purposes and as a planning tool is truly best-in-class. Kudos to you, and thank you for the education. Twitter and other forms of social media will continue to grow and become more widely accepted for “official” communication once it moves well past the early adopters (more than 5%).

By: Kristen Carney

Kristen Carney — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:35:45 +0000

I’m so sorry to hear that! I’d keep trying in the future though; hopefully, agency policy will be updated to encourage social media. For example, here’s guidance from the EPA on using Social Media (http://govsocmed.pbworks.com/Guidance:-Representing-EPA-Online-Using-Social-Media). Just in case you didn’t see it, here’s how one EIS project team used different social media tools to increase public engagement for their project (http://www.cubitplanning.com/blog/2009/11/say-it-to-my-facebook-using-social-media-for-public-involvement/). Ryan Link (@Ryan_Link) was instrumental in getting permission from the different agencies to use social media tools on this EIS project. He might be able to tell you how he got everyone on board? Just a thought!

By: tam

tam — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:52:31 +0000

Glad to see you’re getting good mileage out of twitter. Unfortunately, Iwas unsuccessful in convincing my project lead of the value of social media in getting our message out there. With more folks (like you) using it, maybe this stance will reverse on the next plan.

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