Facebook, You Tube, Twitter, Oh My!

I am trying to communicate with as many people as I possibly can before the May 19th election. I think using things like, well this blog, is very important. I truly believe that this is where a lot of our media is going. Newspapers are dying out, while Facebook, You Tube, and similar sites are flourishing.

I decided to set up a You Tube account for my campaign. I currently have only a few videos, but don’t worry I am working on it! My You Tube account is www.youtube.com/Torres4NPschools. Here is one of the videos I have posted right now….


I learned while working for the Obama Campaign that these methods of communication are essential to truly getting out any message. I feel that as a District we should try to further explore this world. In my opinion the budget, and the proposed budget, should always be made available off of our District website. Community input is very important, and I think we need to further push things like blogs or other internet forums to let people voice there opinions on certain issues. We should host more internet surveys, and make our meeting more available to the public. People shouldn’t just have to turn to the “Letters to the Editor” portion of the New Paltz Times when they have an issue or want to see a change.

I am aware that all meetings are viewable off of Public Access, but not everyone gets that channel, I don’t! I think we should explore putting meetings, or parts of them on sites like You Tube, or maybe even live stream the meetings off of our website. This is a relatively simple thing to do, and I think it will spark up more community input in our meetings and decision making.