{"id":427323,"date":"2010-03-14T14:58:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T18:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.73772"},"modified":"2010-03-14T15:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T19:00:25","slug":"state-will-use-social-networking-sites-to-update-residents-on-375th-anniversary-events-and-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/427323","title":{"rendered":"State Will Use Social Networking Sites To Update Residents On 375th Anniversary Events And Contests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut turns 375 this year, and government officials plan to update residents on anniversary events and contests&nbsp;via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Social networking sites are the town squares of this generation,&#8221; said Gov. M. Jodi Rell in a prepared statement issued Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Here is how you can use technology to get the scoop on upcoming events: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Connecticut375\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ct375\">YouTube<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Hartford-CT\/Connecticuts-375th-Anniversary\/10150113573780463?ref=ts\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that&nbsp;the state&#8217;s&nbsp;newly-created Facebook page already has over 230 fans, including Rell and Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele. The page features pictures taken at the&nbsp;anniversary&#8217;s February kickoff event, which was held at the Connecticut State Library. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Only 10 people, however, are following anniversary news on Twitter. Anniversary coverage on YouTube&nbsp;has brought 42 channel views.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut turns 375 this year, and government officials plan to update residents on anniversary events and contests&nbsp;via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. &#8220;Social networking sites are the town squares of this generation,&#8221; said Gov. M. Jodi Rell in a prepared statement issued Sunday. Here is how you can use technology to get the scoop on upcoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}