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Cities, towns, state and federal agencies and governments are increasingly using blogs to communicate with the public, bypassing the mainstream media and engaging readers directly. As a result, those entities are distributing their message to a wide audience and creating a forum for government officials to interact directly with people.
As your Town Administrator, I have been doing a 'blog' since we revamped the Town's website in 2006 and I have been doing something similar to this for many years prior to that. Recently, I had been contacted by a graduate student from University of North Carolina as a subject for his thesis on town managers who write blogs. As a graduate of the University of Maryland I had to swallow some pride by helping this 'Tarheel' with his research project, however I relented and was part of his research.
Leon A. Gaumond Jr.
Town Administrator
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