Tri Valley Citizen 2.0

On March 29, Twitterer extraordinaire @adrielhampton of Dublin Townhall will be hosting the Tri Valley's first Citizen 2.0 training.

As Adriel Hampton explains

Participation in local government is important. It's the only way to influence policies that may affect you, it keeps politicians accountable, and local government decisions and community effort are key to driving local business development.

Barriers to participation are significant. It's hard to make the time to stay up on local government or to get motivated to get involved. If you have been involved, it can be discouraging to not see any change from your efforts, or you may simply feel like you have nothing to contribute.

One of the ways to break down the barriers is Citizen 2.0. This is a community member engaged through simple Web communication tools to know what's going on in their City, with the means to quickly and easily add meaningful input. Citizen 2.0 is streamlined activism for modern life. It's the blog I built to harness energy around modifying a local library project, and it is bringing people together around community and economic development in non-traditional ways.

Social media is the Web-tool enabled culture that drives Citizen 2.0. We'll cover the culture of collaboration, transparency and immediacy of Web 2.0, and give an overview of blogging and an introduction to tools such as Facebook, Skype, Yelp, Twitter and Google Alerts. This demo will include how to "talk the talk" when it comes to getting started with these tools.

This is a great opportunity for those in the East Bay interested in social media, to come out and learn the difference between a "tweet" and a "blog"...

and there's going to be free food!

For more info contact adriel@adrielhampton.com or visit DublinTownhall.com

h/t @Meghan1018