Dunwoody Police Department is tweeting all of its live calls today. @DunwoodyPolice #dpdcalls

Twitter is a service available on the internet and smart phones whereby you can send a text message to the internet and anyone can sign up to follow what you say.  Public two way conversations can be had and photos and websites can also be sent via links provided in the tweet.  The Dunwoody Police Department is cutting edge as I can think of no other department who uses social media to the extent that they do. 

If you are not on twitter and you want to see what this is all about, the Dunwoody Patch has dedicated a simple webpage to watch the tweets as they happen and it can be viewed here.

Dunwoody Patch posts video of the zoning rewrite meeting.

18 min introductory zoning meeting presented by Dunwoody Patch

The Dunwoody Patch recorded the beginning of the meeting and wrote a nice recap of the comments made by the 25 citizens in the room. 

I highly recommend that you click the link above to watch the video and please feel free to comment there as to your thoughts on the project and changes needed.  Though this is by far the official place to comment on such items, it is a public discussion which will be read by other members of the community as well as the project consultants.  Soon there will be a public site created by the consultants which will serve the same and "official" place to comment outside the physical meetings and once available I will post that link too.

Dunwoody Patch creates Interactive Map of Dunwoody Voter Turnout and Results.

Link to Patch 

Peter Cox of the Dunwoody Patch did a wonderful job of turning the election data I posted yesterday to my blog into an easy to read map of the polling places with statistical information on voter turnout and each races results.

Comparing the two photos below you will note wide differences in voter turnout, Mayor selection and Post 5 selection but little differences on the selection for City Council Post 4.  Each of the city's 13 polling places have varying demographics and voting patterns therefore trying to predict the runoff statistics after the huge turnout on Tuesday, because of the alcohol and bond referendums, would be very difficult indeed.

If there are any political science professors out there, I would enjoy reading your students detailed analysis comparing the November 8th election results to the December 6th.

PS: I was talking to a well educated, very computer literate neighbor regarding this article and he said that he has heard of the Patch but didn't typically follow the blogs.  The Dunwoody Patch is not a blog, it is a well run "daily newspaper" available in only an electronic format, written and edited by professional journalists with great up to the minute articles.  I highly recommend adding it to your online reading for everyday news of all things Dunwoody.

Link to Large Map view of the Data