Social Media and Accountability in Local Govt.

GO TO: https://www.facebook.com/HeadsUpLaunceston 

To quote ... "THANK GOODNESS the development application for the Windmill Hill fence around the Aquatic Centre, has been withdrawn - for the time being anyway.

Why it was even considered & submitted is way beyond belief - and the people of Launceston only hear about it in the final hours.

Responses from this post just 9 hours ago have been overwhelming - 11,584 people reached thus far, 92 likes, 38 shares & over 80 comments.

So social media ISN'T always bad - just sincerely hoping such a ridiculous application isn't proposed again."

But it turns out that Social Media is a game changer and in way Launceston's Aldermen need to get much more used to. Its apocryphal, once-upon-timer Social Media was the standing joke and the fact that people were no longer 'joiners' ratepayer use of it was also joked about as if it was irrelevant.

Once organisations, Council's even, could orchestrate self-serving research and as likely as not they'll go on doing so but increasingly their misplaced trust in everything staying the same will dissolve in the wake of a changing world where accountability will be delivered in new ways.