I once had to contact Lawrence Mayor Michael Sullivan and was told by his staff not to leave a phone or voice message, but to send him an email.

“Will he respond?” I asked.

“Absolutely!” was the reply.

- Gillian
And he did.

This is just the basic level of what’s out there for city officials as regards communications. I heartily applaud Ed Cameron for having a family, a FT job, his Council work, and still maintaining a blog.

Some city councillors don’t even have published email addresses; but I note that the NPD has a page on MySpace, I think it is.

Although I’m not up on all this social networking, I agree that cty officials should be. Who knows what it might lead to?