We’re working with one government official — Cook County Commissioner Tony Peraica — to use modern media tools to promote open, honest government in one of the most notoriously corrupt jurisdictions in America.
This morning, the Chi-Town Daily News highlighted these efforts with this great article:
Curt Mercadante, president of the Merc Strategy Group, encouraged Peraica to test Twitter, and has led the commissioner’s efforts to engage voters on other social networking sites, including Facebook and YouTube.
Our client also has received some great notoriety for these efforts, some of which you can read here:
- Tony Peraica: Twittering On the Job (Fox Chicago News)
- Peraica Joins the Twitter World (CBS 2 Chicago/Chicago Sun-Times)
- Tony Peraica Knows All, Tweets All (Chicagoist)
- Peraica Uses Twitter to Rebuke Stroger on Budget Cuts (The Huffington Post)
- Peraica Twitters County Board Meetings (The Huffington Post)
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[...] political blog, an aggressive email program, and Twitter as tools to do all of the above. And, as we write here, his “live tweets” of county board meetings have not only accomplished the strategy of [...]
[...] 2010 Web allows a 52-year old county commissioner in Cook County (who has no tech skills at all) to provide transparent government by live tweeting county board [...]
[...] we’ve posted before, Commissioner Peraica is committed to using online tools in creative ways to improve government [...]