We’re in the Lawrence Journal World this morning, along with our friends in Lawrence, Andover, Derby and Goddard! It’s time to get in the game, Kansas!
“‘Our demographic has done a lousy job of being informed voters,’ [Game On’s Judith] Deedy conceded. ‘I say that without casting blame on anyone. I used to think I was an informed citizen until I started realizing how little I understood.’
With that new focus, members of Game On started reaching out, through social media and other outlets, to connect with like-minded groups in other communities, including Andover, Goddard and Derby in the Wichita area, as well as the local group Educate Lawrence. . .
Between the teachers, Game On and various other organizations, [during the last week of the session] they formed a network of Twitter and Facebook followers numbering in the thousands that reportedly extended into communities throughout Kansas, sometimes competing with the traditional Statehouse news media in being the first to report the news.
‘I think it was a really signature moment,’ [Educate Lawrence leader Jerry] Jost said. ‘I was corresponding and communicating with legislators. And also with Educate Lawrence we had our own action-alert network. I was involved with social media and communications on all the decision points the state was considering.’”
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2014/apr/26/school-advocates-say-game-2014-elections/