1. An experiment with social media and my local environment

    I’m soliciting open and public responses about my local bus service, and using Get Satisfaction this took me all of about 15 minutes to do.

    I’m interested to see whether they will discover that they’re on the site without being prompted, and that people are trying to communicate with them there. Whether it will make any difference at all is of course the big question. It might not get used or it might just fill up with complaints and suggestions that go unheard.

    Here are your action points:

    1. if you live in Brighton and/or Hove go and read the comments or maybe even leave a suggestion or complaint
    2. add your local public services to Get Satisfaction, or maybe your whole council or local authority and all it’s various parts, and open up discussion in a public space

    Maybe we’ll turn alpha citizens into alpha geeks!