I recently joined my CD’s local facebook group (Kensington, Brooklyn), which has almost 2,000 members. So I thought it would be a great place to try and drive traffic to my previous blog post. In a stroke of luck, it just so happened that several people in the group were having a conversation about the local post office, the subject of my post. So I jumped into the discussion.

So far, there haven’t been any responses (I did get one “like”!). But my previous posts to the group have generated a pretty substantial back and forth so I’m hopeful I can persuade at least a handful of members to follow the link to the class blog.

I also tried a more general post on Facebook, similar to what I initially did to try to promote my blog post. So far no luck there either.

To gather material for my survey blog post I again turned to the FB Kensington group. I was hoping to get a sense of what issues its members were thinking about in regards to jobs. So I asked several questions that I thought might generate some discussion. Of course, everyone’s a comedian.

I wasn’t nearly as confident about using Twitter. My account is pretty fledgeling so far, but I hoped that tying in some hashtags would help draw people. I used twitter to promote my post. and to start fishing for some survey ideas. To promote my blog post I tied my tweet to #kensington and #postoffice. As for the survey ideas I ended up choosing a pretty generic hashtag through Google trends, although #unemployment is trending pretty hard right now. Instead of just asking for general ideas for a survey, I tried a more specific question in the hope that the range of responses would give me some good material.

The caveat to all of this is that I tried to see how quickly people respond to FB and Twitter posts so I did everything today. It is possible that I might get some good feedback in the next few days