10 Reasons Urban Planners Are On Twitter

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Why Your Planning Colleagues Use Twitter 10 Huge Reasons to Tweet from 10 Remarkable Planners! I really value the communities that form on twitter` @HilaryPerkins Unique Faces Unique Reasons Because you learn +++ more on Twitter than through professional development opportunities. Twitter facilities free education. @auciello Simple: To hear how cities & spaces do & don’t work for people @counti8 I follow people who know more than I do. I get best practices, lots of stuff to read and think about. They make me smarter. @eclisham To help others learn what I know & to learn from people smarter than me~ @PHDPopHealth #1 Reason Planners Tweet: “It Makes Us Smarter” ~ @cubitplanning News junkie; access to awesome professional community sharing & learning from each other @minbostratus To reconnect w/ past colleagues & find future ones; follow fun events & people; see what planners are reading/doing @thecristen I've learned a lot about planning efforts across the country, as well as grant and funding opportunities. It's fun, too! @skcopeland Engage a younger demo that doesn't participate in town halls and other traditional forums @CenTXAPA To stay connected to other planners & issuesimportant to planners. @katenesse

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Quotes from 11 urban planners about why they are on Twitter. We'll be passing this handout out at the American Planning Association’s National Conference next month. Stop by and say hi! Learn more about Twitter and planning at http://www.cubitplanning.com/blog

Transcript of 10 Reasons Urban Planners Are On Twitter

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Why Your Planning Colleagues Use Twitter

10 H u g e R e a s o n s t o T w e e t f r o m 10 Remark able P l a n n e r s !

I really value the communities that form on twitter`

@HilaryPerkins

Unique Faces

Unique Reasons

Because you learn +++ more on Twitter than through professional development

opportunities. Twitter facilities free education. @auciello

Simple: To hear

how cities & spaces

do & don’t work for

people @counti8

I follow people who know more than I

do. I get best practices, lots of stuff to read and think about. They make me smarter.

@eclisham

T o he l p o t he rs l ea rn w ha t I k now & t o l e a rn f rom peo p l e sm a r t e r t han m e ~ @ P H D P opH ea l t h

#1 Reason Planners Tweet:

“It Makes Us

Smarter” ~

@cubitplanning

News junkie; access to

awesome professional

community sharing & learning

from each other @minbostratus

To reconnect w/ past colleagues & find future ones; follow fun events & people; see

what planners are reading/doing @thecristen

I've learned a lot

about planning efforts

across the country,

as well as grant and

funding opportunities.

It's fun, too!

@skcopeland

Engage a younger demo that

doesn't participate in town

halls and other traditional

forums @CenTXAPA

T o s t a y c on ne c t ed t o o t h e r p l an ne rs & i s s ue s i m po r t an t t o p l an ne r s . @ ka t en es se