VICTORIA – These days the media never shut up about Facebook and Twitter and “viral videos.” In this year’s political madhouse, no candidate can be caught without a social media presence.
So it surprises me that the breakout technology for public engagement turns out to be huge conference calls on the old landline telephone.
“Tele-town halls” were first deployed here by B.C.
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