Regional council plans to get social

The Taranaki Regional Council’s Facebook page only has 2482 likes but is still performing better than other councils around the country, one of its directors says.

On Monday, councillors at the Executive, Audit and Risk committee meeting discussed ways to improve the council’s reach on social media and suggested using short videos to better explain what it did.

It had seen slow growth on Facebook and Twitter but the TRC was doing well compared to other regional councils, corporate services director Mike Nield said.

‘‘Content is the biggie, if it’s something interesting that connects with folk then it takes off,’’ he said.

Councillor Neil Walker said while he was attending a meeting to select the next National Party nominee to contest the Whanganui seat in the upcoming general election, one of the candidates had talked about how they used short videos to increase their reach on