Over the last few weeks I have been asked to help with the Terry Goddard for Arizona Tweetup’s. The idea of the online Q&A session came from folks close to Terry that wanted to try something new. I was asked to be on site as a “Twitter pro” to help facilitate the conversation and be there as a resource should questions with the community and technology arise. I was happy to do so. Terry tweeted all questions himself and we tried to answer them all.

Inevitably we missed a few and some people fell the answers might not have been as compelling as they would have like. But in all honesty, it was Terry himself tweeting the responses in 140 characters or less. That is impressive! Do you know of any other statewide official running for office  that has done something like this?

Here is some video, twitpics, and highlights I captured digitally last night:

We started it off with a video message and then the tweeting began. You can follow the conversation by following #AZGOV. We ended the tweetup with this final video message (below) and then went over to @CoHoots, a Phoenix Coworking collective where they hosted #nightowls. A video of the touc can be found here.

The sign off:

It is great to see elected officials and candidates embrace new media such as this. Are you involved with a campaign that is using similar strategies? If so, please let me know… I would love to highlight more of this convergence.

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