Tuesday night Mayor Julian Castro hosted the first virtual town hall in San Antonio, a fulfillment of a campaign promise. For the first time it turned out great thanks to the hard work of Trinity University, several members of his staff, and his campaign office. During the hour session moderated by Elaine Wolff of the San Antonio Current people could e-mail, chat or tweet up questions for the mayor to respond to. A limited audience at Trinity was also provided the opportunity to ask questions. Hopefully we’ll see more of this type event as Mayor Castro works to bring more transparency and accessibility to city government through online resources. He is becoming one of the most connected mayors San Antonio has ever seen. Read more…
Tonight SA4Mayor.com is hosting a virtual town hall being broadcast from SAC RTF Hall at 6:30 p.m. It will feature the major mayoral candidates in a forum debate hosted by Gilbert Garcia and Patricio Espinoza. Questions will be fielded through Twitter #sa4mayor, on chat through the website or in person at the hall (limited seating). The virtual town hall is being hosted by SA4Mayor.com and the San Antonio Current. Tune in tonight for another lively round, especially with the recent controversy between Diane Cibrian and Trish DeBerry-Mejia regarding city contracts. If you wish to discuss you can use this thread as an open forum for comments. Unfortunately I’ll be in and out due to some work commitments. If it’s the last of April it must be Fiesta and election time.
Tonight will be the second in a series of virtual town halls dubbed Julian LIVE by the Castro campaign. The event starts at 8 p.m. and will feature college students from local colleges and universities sitting with the campaign in the same format as the last virtual town hall. You can visit the campaign’s website at 8 p.m. to watch the event and join in the discussion. Unless my role changes with the event I probably won’t be able to blog from the event. However, there should be several bloggers following the event due to the success of the last event. This also has two candidate forums to be broadcast live, one Thursday night on KLRN at 8 p.m. and the other Friday on KSTX 89.1 radio at noon. You can keep up with candidate forums at this great election calendar provided by the Express-News.
Today Pres. Obama will be hosting a virtual town hall today at 10:30 a.m. CST, taking questions from people who sign in and submit them through an online forum. People can also vote up or down on the questions. As of the time of this posting almost 70,000 people had submitted or voted on over 75,000 questions, far more than he could ever hope to answer. A moderator will select from questions submitted on topics ranging from home ownership to retirement security. It demonstrates that Pres. Obama is carrying forward his promise of a more accessible White House through social media technology. So the real question is if this something we can see more of in government? 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…
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