The Sound Green

Can Twitterers Keep Tweets Alive?

Real tweets, I mean.  From birds.  Around our very own Puget Sound.

I think it would be wonderful to get the online community involved in volunteer events put on by the Puget Sound Partnership, or the Green Seattle Partnership, for example.  They have events - urban forest restoration, invasive species removal, etc. - in neighborhoods all over Seattle that are very accessible and open to the public.  What better way to have a TweetUp/Blogger Meetup than in getting together and working toward preserving your local environment?  Here are some ideas I have in putting something together:

•  Find active bloggers and twitterers in the relevant geographical area and send out personal tweets or emails to them about the event.
• Each worksite has its own environmental steward (leader), so maybe we could create a handle specific to a work site, if the steward wanted to maintain it to update regular volunteers? (i.e. @LongfellowCreek: @WestSeattleBlogger Hey just wanted to invite you to our tweet up work party at longfellow creek on 5/13 at 10am! Gloves, shovels and power bars provided! Love to see you there)
• Ask these umbrella organizations what they have been doing for social media outreach, what has worked and what has fizzled out.
• Maybe create a short training manual for environmental stewards if they would like to use a twitter or facebook page to update their volunteers!

This project has a lot of routes it could follow… an independent venture or working with an organization?  Who knows… we’ll soon see!

My next step?

Checking out local events! Green Seattle work parties, or find out more about this Outreach Leadership Training Class for the Puget Sound Partnership?