Concerned Citizens

Tonight the Castro Campaign hosted their first Blogger Summit with a live webcast over the Internet. About 8-10 people showed up to ask questions of Julian Castro on a variety of topics from social media to transportation in San Antonio. Members of the San Antonio media including the Express-News and Current participated in the summit. What made it even more successful was that questions were also fielded from the chat room on the Internet. While the number may have seemed low at 30 apparently it was more than the number that attended Trish DeBerry-Mejia’s Tweet Up event held at the same time. Read more…

Today I was at a planning session for Tuesday nights Blogger Summit with Julian Castro. As we were getting ready for the event (yes, I’m a Castro supporter) we ran across this comment from Trish’s website regarding the competing event “Tweetup Tuesday.” Regarding the event one comment said “This seems like a genuine event, unlike the Castro campaign’s event on the same day, where they seem to be only interested in the social media elitists.” Interesting comment but something to consider. As a blogger and commentor since last year it’s interesting to think that bloggers are elitists. I always thought the main stream media (MSM) were the elitists. Read more…