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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> "lisagrob@verizon.net" <lisagrob@verizon.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> m.avery@rocketmail.com<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> mmolino54@hotmail.com; towntalk@riverdale-park.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:23:59 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: Re: [RP TownTalk] The Role of TownTalk<BR></FONT><BR>
<META content=off http-equiv=x-dns-prefetch-control>Everyone is welcome to join in the discourse, but I am guessing that not everyone is aware of TownTalk. And many people aren't frequent computer/email users. <BR><BR>I think Mark has an important point that our listserve represents just 3% of our town - if I did the math right - while a lively and engaged 3% - we are still just 3%!<BR>
<P>On Aug 20, 2009, <STRONG>Melissa Avery</STRONG> <m.avery@rocketmail.com> wrote: </P>
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<DIV>more people should be encouraged to join town talk, the entire town would benefit from it. Yes town talk offers the opportunity for casual discourse, but it also offers a chance to the citizens of this town to exchange information that you won't find in the Gazette, the town crier or from a town hall meeting. </DIV>
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<STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></STRONG> Marc Molino <<A class=parsedEmail href="mailto:mmolino54@hotmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:mmolino54@hotmail.com">mmolino54@hotmail.com</A>><BR><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></STRONG> <A class=parsedEmail href="mailto:towntalk@riverdale-park.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:towntalk@riverdale-park.org">towntalk@riverdale-park.org</A><BR><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></STRONG> Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:06:12 PM<BR><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></STRONG> [RP TownTalk] The Role of TownTalk<BR></FONT><BR><BR> <BR>Given that there are several thousand citizens in Riverdale Park, and less than 200 on this list (please, correct me if I'm wrong, Dwight), TownTalk would be one of the least efficient ways for our government to communicate with the citizens as a whole. Some of Riverdale
Park's most active and concerned citizens are on this list, but we're a small minority. It's a great place to connect with neighbors, share information with one another, and start the ball rolling for civic iniatives, but an e-mail to TownTalk is not the same as actually contacting our government. It would be a good place to start a discussion about best practices for local governments and how they communicate with their citizens in terms of keeping them informed and maintaining transparency.<BR> <BR>Kindly,<BR>Marc M.<BR> <BR><BR>
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