The Consistory has substantially increased its presence in social networks and in only 8 months of operation of the City's general account on Twitter has over 1,700 followers and has posted 1,051 Tweets and 2,151 facebook.
Councilman Information Society Council of Lorca, Francisco García, has reported that "if we add all unique visitors they had in the first half of 2013 the ten most viewed municipal websites find that have had a total of 278 648 unique visitors, who knew the information or services used in 1,958,665 pages developed by city staff with the help of this council. This implies that this trend be continued at the end of this year these municipal websites have received nearly 100,000 unique visitors more than in 2012.
Specifically, 131,205 people visited in the first half of the year the City Council website www.lorca.es Lorca, whose principal and generic is still the most visited of which runs the Consistory.
However, these figures represent a slight decrease of 8% over the same period last year in which the information on the earthquake had an unusual level of visitors.
Furthermore, these figures are justified by the fact that it was found that the creation and improvement of specialized pages of different municipal areas have generated a derivation of general portal visitors to the departments.
"Citizens already know or include in your favorites direct addresses of the services most used and even combining two words in the search engines will lead to a more concrete municipal website," said the mayor.
Proof of this is for example the increase in visits to the website of the Department of Employment, which was the second most visited website but after remodeling has achieved 62,424 visits 159 597 unique visitors 791 986 pages of advice and course offerings or employment .
The same applies to the website of the Department of Sports and the Youth, that after improving its design and content, in the first half almost equals all 2012 data.
The Blog of Information Society has also climbed the rankings in the ranking of websites Consistory Lorca, surpassing for the first six months of the year more than 2,300 people in more than 6,000 it had in the past twelve months a year.
Logically, it detects a drop in the number of visits on the website of the Department of Planning, after the boom of license applications for rehabilitation and reconstruction.
Among the services that scale positions as portal pages www.lorca.es views include current paragraph city "Lorca Informa" with 31,836 page views in six months, compared to around 26,246 last year and the contractor profile, passing of the 17,401 visits throughout 2012 to over 30,533 in the first half of this year.
"Obviously, this is because it is widespread among companies desire to qualify for numerous recruitment processes launched this Consistory, by increasing the solvency and reducing the pay period as well as by increased actions after the earthquake, "said the councilman.
Commitment to social networks as a means of communication with the citizen
Increased visits to "Lorca Informa" is attributable to the significant investment this government team is doing for communication with citizens through social networks.
Proof of this is that in only 8 months of operation the Twitter account @ AytoLorca City Council has more than 1,700 followers and has issued over 1,050 Tweets, while 2,151 were given to "like" the official page www.facebook .com / ayuntamientolorca to continue municipal information, review, propose, ask, ...
In this line of foster closeness of municipal services through online interaction with the citizens, the City has begun to coordinate and train staff progressively various councils to properly manage institutional accounts of its municipal area.
Result of this work there are 2,363 personal profiles that follow the contents uploaded to www.facebook.com / BibliotecaDeLorca, 609 than they do on www.facebook.com / lorcaturismo, 455 at www.facebook.com / socinfolorca, 363 in www.facebook .com / culturalorca, 323 www.facebook.com / juventudlorca, 208 www.facebook.com / deporteslorca.es, 149 www.facebook.com / seporlorca and 94 at www.facebook.com / PoliciaTutorLorca.
Garcia explained that "in addition to the general account of the City on Twitter, there are seven other municipal services officers as are @ Soc_Info, with 1,143 followers and 1,157 tweets cast, @ lorcaturismo_es with 939 followers and 472 tweets so far, @ juventud_Lorca with 667 followers and information 1.390, @ Bibliotecalorca the following 566 accounts with the publication of 733 Tweets, @ DeportesLorca with 214 followers and 229 messages sent, @ traficoLorca that has informed its 3,327 followers 265 incidents or traffic changes vehicles in the municipality. Finally, recently created the account @ CulturaLorca that despite having so far been reported only 16 followers and 227 cultural issues in Lorca.
The mayor stressed that "the same way some services of consistory has also Tuenti page, such as the Department of Youth, or Youtube".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca