Birds in Hawaii Not the Only Thing “Tweeting”
Many National Parks are becoming engaged in social networking online.
Just the other day, park rangers from the 3 historical national parks on Hawai`i Island and the Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail met to develop new ways for their parks to reach out to people using “social media”. With the addition of Pu`uhonua o Honaunau (the Place of Refuge) to Twitter, all of the national parks on Hawai`i Island can be followed in the “Twittersphere”.
As it stands, about 1/4 of all national parks have a presence in various online media. Websites such as Twitter, Facebook and WordPress.com are allowing national parks to reach well beyond their park boundaries to communicate the significance of the parks to a worldwide audience. Because of the physical isolation of the National Parks of the Pacific, social media is an even greater asset, allowing people who might not ever be able to travel to these parks to learn and experience them (for example, War in the Pacific National Historical Park is nearly 6,000 miles from the U.S. Mainland!).
The following Pacific Island National Parks are on Twitter:
Haleakala
Pu`ukohola Heiau
Kaloko-Honokohau
Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail
Pu`uhonua o Honaunau
Hawaii Volcanoes
