Archive | April, 2010
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NEPA Projects (EISs) Using Social Media Sites

Acronyms: NEPA = National Environmental Policy Act while NAEP = National Association of Environmental Professionals This week, I’m at the NAEP conference in Atlanta, volunteering to teach environmental professionals about using Twitter. Unlike the APA conference where there was chatter on Twitter before the conference, Twitter was completely silent before the NAEP conference. So we’re going to [...]

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But Is It Healthy? (Part 2) – Healthy Development Measurement Tool

But Is It Healthy? (Part 2) – Healthy Development Measurement Tool

This post is a follow up to: But Is It Healthy? (Part 1) – Health Impact Assessment and NEPA San Francisco is leading the way in combining planning and health forces, to spatially measure environmental, social and health impacts.  Their Department of Health, and Department of Planning, among others, created the Eastern Neighborhoods Health Impact [...]

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Cubit 2010 Newsletters

Cubit 2010 Newsletters

Below are Cubit’s 2010 Newsletters. These newsletters go out once a month by email. The layout below may look a little wonky on your screen, because the text and images are formatted for email and not for web viewing. Most people prefer to either subscribe to this blog, Plannovation, (either via your RSS reader or [...]

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Twitter Use by Planners at the APA 2010 Conference

Anthony and I had a great time at the National American Planning Association conference talking to planners about why more and more planning projects are using Twitter as a public involvement tool. Twitter use at the APA conference was phenomenal with over 1,000 tweets using the conference hashtag #apa2010! A big thank you to the [...]

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List of Planning Tweets from the APA’s 2010 Conference

I used a tool called Archivest to export the majority of the tweets with the hashtag #APA2010. If I have time, I’d love to do some data mining on the tweets in the future. For example, what sessions got the most positive feedback? I’d want to attend sessions by speakers with positive feedback at next [...]

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