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Library Social Media Efforts Recognized
The social media efforts of the Evanston Public Library were recently highlighted in a library industry blog, LibraryHotSpot. Included in the article was a fun video made by EPL promoting its E book lending. EPL is doing more... Continue
Evanston Police and Fire Departments Now on Facebook
The City has recently added Facebook pages for the Evanston Police and Fire Departments. Check out all the City's Facebook pages on our website.... Continue
Blog Turns One Year Old
This blog is celebrating its first anniversary today. During the past year, I have posted 248 entries to the blog which have received 208 total comments from the public. The most commented blog post dealt with feral cats, while the... Continue
Facebook: New Local Traffic Cops
Interesting article in today's New York Times on how traffic officers in India are using Facebook to help catch drivers violating traffic laws. So in Evanston, if you text to Facebook to report someone speeding while you are driving, would... Continue
Blog Update
The City's new website presents a problem for me with the blog. I have often used the blog as a way to post "news" about what is going on in the City government and the community. We now have a... Continue
City To Sponsor Code-A-Thon
The City of Evanston seeks residents and students with all levels of computer skills to help move the city website to a new, improved Content Management System on Saturday, June 5 from 9:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. The Code-A-Thon will... Continue
Get Emergency Notifications on Twitter
The City has created a sub-list off our main Twitter feed for emregncy notifications. Follow it @CityofEvanston/urgent... Continue
Facebook Fans
We have met our challenge of 2,010 Facebook Fans by 2010. We put out the challenge on December 23, 2009 when we had 1,032 Fans. Today, 47 days later, we have 2,011 Fans.... Continue
Web 2.0 in Action
The New York Times today had an article on a website called SeeClickFix.com. I saw the article on-line and decided to read it later in the day. This is a private website designed to help people submit complaints about their... Continue
Evanston Takes Facebook By Storm
The City's Facebook page has reached over 1,000 (1,032 as of this writing) fans since being created in early October. Our Public Information folks have decided we needed campaign to get 2,010 fans by January 1. So check out our... Continue
New Downtown Zoning Website
From our Community Development Department: A new web page has been introduced to support the zoning implementation of the Downtown Plan Update (adopted by Council February 2009). Anticipated to run through Spring 2010, the effort will put the updated Downtown... Continue
New Media Advisory Board
The City has a lot going on in areas of "new media." We are on Facebook, You Tube and Twitter. Our website has lots of information with a relatively good way to access it. I have been blogging here since... Continue
City Facebook and Twitter Accounts
The City's march into social networking continues with a Facebook and Twitter account now up and running. "Friend" and "Follow" us.... Continue
Twitter and Facebook
The City will start "twittering" in the next several days. I will let everyone know when we start doing this. We will also start a Facebook page this month too. What else should we be doing on the Internet to... Continue