The other day, I attended the Long Island Association annual breakfast meeting with both Nassau County and Suffolk County Executives – Ed Mangano and Steven Bellone.
I was really impressed with both of them.
As they spoke, I checked in on Foursquare. I noticed that there were three other people signed in from a room of more than 500 people. I wondered why no one else checked in.
Ed Mangano signed in, but I don’t think he actually checked in because I wrote him a message and he didn’t respond to me. It led me to believe that although he may be on this site, he has someone else managing it. (If I were County Executive, I would certainly check and respond to comments, but I guess that’s me…)
I looked at Twitter to see if anyone was writing anything about what the two execs were saying. You know what I found?
NOTHING!
I was shocked. We live in a digital age and here there are 500 people in the room and no one has anything to say? I really found that hard to believe.
I also checked out their Facebook pages and you know what I found? A lot of self-promotion! I’m surprised that they didn’t learn anything from President Barak Obama. He and his staff knew how to engage an audience and develop a following.
I have nothing bad to say about either Ed or Steve. I think highly of both of them. They are both good people. But when Ed says that he’s gotten a lot of flack about proposals, don’t you think that wouldn’t be the case if he knew how to use social media the right way?
