Asheville City Council Live Chat for 08/24/2010
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Asheville City Council LiveChat hasn’t been working for most people, so today I’m introducing a few changes.
ACC-LiveChat is envisioned as a dynamic on-line conversation within the community about local issues important to our city. To make this happen, I used a tool called “CoverItLive.com” to create a chat-room. It was hoped this platform would enable a cross-blog, non-partisan, tool Ashevillians could use to communicate with each other and elected officials.
While at first meeting with initial success, CoverItLive.com’s moderation queue feature creates unreasonable delays for comments. This killed most conversations before they started. Despite several attempts at fixes – nothing has worked.
Therefore we are going to try a new way to make ACC-LiveChat work. Instead of a chat-room, we’re going to use a Twitter-based tool called “Twub” and this blog’s native comments feature.
Details and video web-streaming after the jump:
As of today, ACC-LiveChat offers you TWO ways to participate during City Council:
1) Use the Twitter hashtag “#avlgov”. Anything posted to #avlgov will be shown in the “Twub” box below.
2) If you can’t/don’t want to limit yourself to 140 characters, leave a comment like you would any other blog post.
Let’s see what happens.
Council’s agenda and supporting documentation can be found here.
See y’all at 5!
- pvh
PS: It’s entirely possible that Twub won’t update as quickly as I’d like – and next time we’ll try something else.
