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Did you know that Plymouth City Council distribute regular newsletters to help you stay up to date with Plymouth news?
Whether current and forthcoming consultation events, election news and updates, business news or just regular news bulletins you can access it all from the front page of the council website or on a direct link here
Chances are you didn’t know because for all the vast quantity of information the council produces, whether on it’s leading site or the more specialist Visit Plymouth and Invest Plymouth websites.
For all I know there might be more. PCC tend to keep far too much of the good news about the city a secret from the very people who live and work here.
It’s a crying shame they’re not shouting about the city more, let alone the question of how well they’re spending our money as council tax and ratepayers.
For example, consider the latest video on the Visit Plymouth YouTube channel.
Posted on 27 September last year, titled “Visit Plymouth this summer” (the more astute of you might appreciate we were already into Autumn by then) the video has had a total of 131 views as of today of which at least 20 are from me over the past two weeks.
Thousands of pounds spent on creating a charming video, only for it to sit doing nothing.
It’s not even been repurposed elsewhere on social media!
Drawing on my experience in digital content creation, I’d estimate that it’s cost them in the region of £40-£50 per view. Remember, other than my views, a great deal of the remaining views will be from council staff and the video creators.
So what’s to be done?
I have a cunning plan and it involves YOU dear reader
Here are the links to all the official Plymouth City Council social media profiles.
Or at least the ones that I could find.
Please do Plymouth a favour and go, like, comment and share some stuff will you.
If we all get behind the council rather than constantly complaining about it, we become invested. And if we’re invested in it, we’ll start to demand change.
And that’s got to be a good thing right?
So have a great week and look out for daily news from WOW Plymouth.
Because Plymouth Deserves Better
Plymouth City Council has an incomplete list of it’s social media links here
You can also find direct links to Visit Plymouth and Invest Plymouth's social media pages below…
Visit Plymouth Facebook
Visit Plymouth Instagram
Visit Plymouth Twitter
Visit Plymouth YouTube
Invest In Plymouth Twitter
Invest In Plymouth YouTube
Invest In Plymouth LinkedIn
And if you’re really keen you can follow, message and tweet our esteemed council leader, Tudor Evans, right here…
GTBH and say I am a critic of PCC and their inactivity in certain areas. However, I am also a realist and understand that they are trying to change some of the big issues such as the town centre development and I praise them for this. It feels to me as though it is a case of 'how do you eat an elephant (!)' in that the challenges seem so huge and plentiful, where do you start? I have a view that Plymouth needs to decide what it wants to be (and this is the most important part), make a plan, consult and then go for it. Stop trying to please everyone and dare I say it, live in the past. Your article about newsletters and general comms from PCC says everything. There is lots going on, things moving etc but there appears to be a blocker in preventing this news getting out. Let's move into the 21st century, embrace new ideas and technology and make Pkymouth a young and vibrant city.