Comments on: Buy Local – The Power of Location-Based Applications

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By: Roakes

Roakes — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:02:00 +0000

Time to “Tweet” the school budget. School districts can derive revenue from Twitter feeds. If kim kardashian can command $10,000 per tweet. Why can’t school district build a following of supporters and then have local biz advertise via the “district deals” feed? It is a community thing where everybody wins. Local school district (new revs) , Local Community (discounted deals and lower taxes), Local Businesses (new revs). We’re all in this together with this budget deficit fiasco from the state.

Thanks this blog article just got me more fired up!

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By: Mike D. Merrill

Mike D. Merrill — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:49:00 +0000

Thanks for the feedback.

By: Roakes

Roakes — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:40:00 +0000

This local concept is exactly what I am talking about regarding creating new revenue sources for school districts. I really like this article Mike. I will be posting this on my facebook page. I too believe social media sites can help our schools.

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By: Winston Edmondson

Winston Edmondson — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:33:45 +0000

Reminds me of my Connected City initiative I proposed last year. I like it.

http://electwinston.com/Lewisville_ConnectedCit...

By: Winston Edmondson

Winston Edmondson — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:33:45 +0000

Reminds me of my Connected City initiative I proposed last year. I like it.

http://electwinston.com/Lewisville_ConnectedCit...

By: ericbrown

ericbrown — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:00:04 +0000

Great idea Mike.

an other option? Open up a subscription based platform to allow the local businesses to list for an nominal fee. I do like Colin's idea of locally owned over chains too.

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By: Mike D. Merrill

Mike D. Merrill — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:05:48 +0000

Thx for the feedback Victoria. Chamber is really membership based, but there are tons of other listing services. Maybe this is where the waste of space phone book companies could evolve to.