Click on the YouTube link from the home page for video produced by Montgomery County, or go from your computer directly to Montgomery County's You Tube Site. Subscribers receive videos as soon as they are posted.
Sign up to receive email updates on a wide variety of issues of your choice, including County Executive Isiah Leggett’s monthly newsletter, public health alerts, transportation and the status of roads, public safety, counseling and career center news, employment opportunities, consumer news and alerts, library notices, recreation programs, County Council agendas, news releases, senior safety issues, taxes and finance, women’s issues, disability access and opportunities, pedestrian safety, solid waste collection schedules, Ride On bus service, etc.
Sign up for Alert Montgomery and register to receive emergency alerts about weather, roads, emergency situations or all three – from one or more of your devices: including computer, cell phone, Blackberry or other PDA.
To receive alerts from and about incidents within other jurisdictions in the national capital area, go to www.capitalert.gov
Montgomery County podcasts are currently available at iTunes. Search using the keywords: Montgomery County Maryland. (http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/JZrg)
Check the home page and the “news” section of the Montgomery County web site for the latest information.
Montgomery County residents can also sign up with Connected Communities to receive free community and public service news and county-wide alerts.
Click on County Cable 6 from the County home page to see live programming on the County government channel (or if you are a cable subscriber, tune in to channel 6 on the Comcast and RCN cable systems, and Channel 30 on Verizon).
“MyMontgomery” helps residents locate a variety of County facilities and services. Visitors to the site need only type in their address and zip code, and then click on the boxes next to the services they are interested in finding, along with their choice of search radius from 1 to 5 miles.
The Montgomery County Government Facebook page can be found at www.facebook.com and searching for key words “Montgomery County Government.” Once there, it is easy to sign up to “become a fan” of the County’s page. Once signed up, you will have automatic access to information updates about County programs and services, along with invitations to County events.
Individuals who don’t already have a Twitter account can go to www.twitter.com and register for a free account. Once on Twitter, go to the “find people” link at the top of the page and type in Montgomery County MD. Click on “MontgomeryCoMD” and select “follow” to receive brief automatic messages on your cell phone whenever the County Public Information Office sends news updates about important issues.